
Release 6
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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 (rudimentr)
         LyX
         C and Pascal source code
         NROFF

 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 operatin system.
         !ignore_headline, !ignore_bottomline: For suppressing the
          headline or the bottomline of a specific node.
         !ignore_subtoc und Verwandte: 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 und Verwandte: 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 colour 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 environment, ilist environment 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), Spanisch
          (!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 !endlish.
         You can pass three index entries with one !index command
          now.
         !win_html_look doesn't exist anymore.
         Shdowed, hollow, outlined and framed text isn't supported
          anymore. But you can define your own commands with
          definitions if you need these text styles.



