The guide of UDO

Output Formats
The "ascii" output generates a single text file with
"plain" text.
Specialities and useful hints
- It's not possible to split the output into more than one
single file (like HTML).
- The paragraph width can be changed with the !parwidth
command. UDO uses a value of 70 characters by default.
- Text styles like bold, italic or underlined are generated with
the characters *, / and _ (as common in the
Usenet).
Because of the existence of some print tools (e.g. IdeaList
for Atari ST) and newsreaders knowing these text styles UDO doesn't
count these special characters. Lines containing such formatting
characters can become longer than the specified paragraph width.
If you want to suppress the output of these characters you can
use the switch !no_effects [asc] inside the preamble.
- UDO generates ASCII files using the actual system charset.
Running UDO under Windows, not the Windows-ANSI charset but the DOS
charset will be used. Opening an UDO-generated text file with an
Windows editor, umlauts and other special characters seems to wrong.
- Using !no_umlaute [asc], you can switch off umlauts and special
characters.
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Last updated on November 5, 2006