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:

        ü Apple QuickView
        ü HP-HelpTag-SGML (rudimentÌr)
        ü LyX
        ü C and Pascal source code
        ü NROFF

 New commands:

        ü !autoref_items [off|on]: Shall UDO insert links in items of
          descriptions and lists?
        ü !code_mac, !code_hp8, !code_iso, !code_dos and !code_tos:
          UDO understands now the character sets of other operating
          systems.
        ü !country: Additional title page information.
        ü !html_backpage: For a back-link on the HTML title page.
        ü !html_keywords: For HTML meta information.
        ü !html_img_suffix: To enable you to use JPEG images etc.
        ü !html_nodesize: For changing the font size of HTML
          headlines.
        ü !ifos und !ifnos: For checking the operatin system.
        ü !ignore_headline, !ignore_bottomline: For suppressing the
          headline or the bottomline of a specific node.
        ü !ignore_subtoc und Verwandte: For suppressing the sub-table
          of contents inside a specific node.
        ü !ignore_links: For suppressing links to a specific node.
        ü !image*: For printing image captions without "Figure #:".
        ü !image_counter: For changing the image counter.
        ü !no_index: For suppressing index command conversion.
        ü !no_toc_subnodes, !no_toc_subsubnodes,
          !no_toc_subsubsubnodes: For making the table of contents
          smaller.
        ü !no_preamble: Useful if you want to write your own preamble.
        ü !parwidth: For changing the paragraph width of the
          destination file.
        ü !rtf_charwidth: For changing the value UDO uses for
          calulating indents and cell widths.
        ü !set, !unset, !ifset, !ifnset: For setting and checking
          symbols.
        ü !sort_hyphen_file: Shall UDO sort the hyphen file and delete
          duplicates?
        ü !subsubsubnode und Verwandte: A fourth layer.
        ü !table_counter: For changing the table counter.
        ü !table_caption*: For printing table captions without "Table
          #:".
        ü !tabwidth: For setting the tabulator width for verbatim
          environments.
        ü !use_justification: Shall UDO generate justification?
        ü !use_nodes_inside_index, !use_alias_inside_index,
          !use_label_inside_index: For appending nodes, aliases and
          labels to the index.
        ü !use_output_buffer: Shall UDO use a buffer to make the
          referencation more perfectly for HTML and Windows Help?
        ü !use_short_envs: For printing always compressed
          environments.
        ü !verbatimsize: For changing the font size of verbatim
          environments.
        ü !win_background: For changing the background colour for
          Windows Help.
        ü !win_high_compression, !win_medium_compression: For setting
          the compression rate for Windows Help.
        ü !win_inline_bitmaps: Shall UDO use special RTF commands for
          using inline bitmaps?
        ü !win_charwidth: For changing the value UDO uses for
          calulating indents and cell widths.

 News:

        ü You can use four layers now for structuring your text.
        ü Justification
        ü Macros and definitions can contain parameters. Thus, you can
          write your own commands in most cases.
        ü blist environment, ilist environment and tlist environment
        ü right justified text (flushright environment)
        ü left justfied text (flushleft environment) for suppressing
          the justification
        ü You can use up to four E-Mail addresses on the title page
          now.
        ü UDO supports Italian (!language italian), Spanisch
          (!language spanish) and Swedish (!language swedish) now.
        ü UDO can sort the hyphen file and delete duplicates.
        ü !no_umlaute converts now all international characters, not
          only the German umlauts.
        ü The source code was optimized. Although UDO supports lots of
          new commands this version of UDO runs faster than the old
          one.

 Changes:

        ü The RTF output was programmed completely new. You can import
          UDO's RTF files without problems in WinWord.
        ü UDO saves a preamble for LaTeX 2.09 and LaTeX2e on its own
          (you can switch it off, if you want).
        ü UDO allows you to use many more nodes, table rows, hyphens
          etc.
        ü UDO checks the source files more pedantically.
        ü 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.
        ü The suffix for ASCII files is now .txt.
        ü UDO doesn't break line between \verb when converting to
          LaTeX.
        ü Graphic characters of the IBM PC character set will be
          replaced by `+', `-' and `|' for Windows Help.

 Syntax changes:

        ü !no_verbatim_umlaute replaces the switch
          !verbatim_no_umlaute
        ü The switch !list_parsep doesn't exist anymore. You can print
          "compressed" environment easier with !short now.
        ü The language of the destination file has to be set with the
          !language command now. !language english replaces the
          command !endlish.
        ü You can pass three index entries with one !index command
          now.
        ü !win_html_look doesn't exist anymore.
        ü 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.