The guide of UDO

History
UDO6 was released on January 3rd, 1997.
You will find here a very compressed list of the major changes of
the last eight months. UDO supports now more destination formats, it
supports new features and there were fixed a lot of bugs. In some
cases it was impossible not to change the syntax of some commands.
- New destination formats:
- Apple QuickView
- HP-HelpTag-SGML
- LyX
- NROFF I don't know if UDO really saves NROFF or if it's TROFF
or GROFF. But you can already use it to make simple manpages for Unix
systems.
- Destination formats "C source code" and "Pascal
source code" Using these formats it's possible to edit a C or
Pascal source code and its documentation in one file.
UDO will print "normal" text using the comment
characters of C or Pascal. The source code will be printed without
conversion.
- New commands:
- !autoref_items [off|on]: Shall UDO insert links in items of
descriptions and lists?
- !code_mac, !code_hp8, !code_iso, !code_dos and !code_tos: UDO
understands now the character sets of other operating systems.
- !country: Additional title page information.
- !html_backpage: For a back-link on the HTML title page.
- !html_keywords: For HTML meta information.
- !html_img_suffix: To enable you to use JPEG images etc.
- !html_nodesize: For changing the font size of HTML headlines.
- !ifos und !ifnos: For checking the
operating system.
- !ignore_headline, !ignore_bottomline: For suppressing the headline
or the bottomline of a specific node.
- !ignore_subtoc etc.: For suppressing the sub-table of
contents inside a specific node.
- !ignore_links: For suppressing links to a specific node.
- !image*: For printing image captions without
"Figure #:".
- !image_counter: For changing the image counter.
- !no_index: For suppressing index command conversion.
- !no_toc_subnodes, !no_toc_subsubnodes, !no_toc_subsubsubnodes:
For making the table of contents smaller.
- !no_preamble: Useful if you want to write your own
preamble.
- !parwidth: For changing the paragraph width of the
destination file.
- !rtf_charwidth: For changing the value UDO uses for
calulating indents and cell widths.
- !set, !unset, !ifset,
!ifnset: For setting and checking symbols.
- !sort_hyphen_file: Shall UDO sort the hyphen file and delete
duplicates?
- !subsubsubnode etc.: A fourth layer.
- !table_counter: For changing the table counter.
- !table_caption*: For printing table captions without
"Table #:".
- !tabwidth: For setting the tabulator width for verbatim
environments.
- !use_justification: Shall UDO generate justification?
- !use_nodes_inside_index, !use_alias_inside_index, !use_label_inside_index: For
appending nodes, aliases and labels to the index.
- !use_output_buffer: Shall UDO use a buffer to make the
referencation more perfectly for HTML and Windows Help?
- !use_short_envs: For printing always compressed environments.
- !verbatimsize: For changing the font size of verbatim
environments.
- !win_background: For changing the background color for Windows
Help.
- !win_high_compression, !win_medium_compression: For setting the compression
rate for Windows Help.
- !win_inline_bitmaps: Shall UDO use special RTF commands for using
inline bitmaps?
- !win_charwidth: For changing the value UDO uses for
calulating indents and cell widths.
- News:
- You can use four layers now for structuring your text.
- Justification
- Macros and definitions can contain parameters. Thus, you can
write your own commands in most cases.
- blist-, ilist- and tlist-environment
- right justified text (flushright environment)
- left justfied text (flushleft environment) for suppressing the
justification
- You can use up to four E-Mail addresses on the title page now.
- UDO supports Italian (!language [italian]), Spanish
(!language [spanish]) and Swedish (!language [swedish]) now.
- UDO can sort the hyphen file and delete duplicates.
- !no_umlaute converts now all international characters, not
only the German umlauts.
- The source code was optimized. Although UDO supports lots of
new commands this version of UDO runs faster than the old one.
- Changes:
- The RTF output was programmed completely new. You can import
UDO's RTF files without problems in WinWord.
- UDO saves a preamble for LaTeX 2.09 and LaTeX2e on its own
(you can switch it off, if you want).
- UDO allows you to use many more nodes, table rows, hyphens
etc.
- UDO checks the source files more pedantically.
- Images are positioned like the outer text. To center an image
you have to use the !image command inside a center
environment. Thus, you can print left and right justified images, too.
- The suffix for ASCII files is now .txt.
- UDO doesn't break line between \verb when converting
to LaTeX.
- Graphic characters of the IBM PC character set will be
replaced by `+', `-' and `|' for Windows Help.
- Syntax changes:
- !no_verbatim_umlaute replaces the switch !verbatim_no_umlaute
- The switch !list_parsep doesn't exist anymore. You can print
"compressed" environment easier with !short now.
- The language of the destination file has to be set with the
!language command now. !language [english] replaces the command
!english.
- You can pass three index entries with one !index
command now.
- !win_html_look doesn't exist anymore.
- Shadowed, hollow, outlined and framed text isn't supported
anymore. But you can define your own commands with definitions if you
need these text styles.
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Last updated on November 5, 2006