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<title>EDoc Release Notes</title>
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<p>This document describes the changes made to the EDoc
application.</p>
<section><title>Edoc 0.7.8</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Fix infinite loop for malformed edoc input</p>
<p>
When processing an edoc comment with ``` in it, if the
comment ends without a matching ''' then an infinite loop
occurs in the function edoc_wiki:strip_empty_lines/2.
This change fixes that by adding a clause to return from
the function upon the end of the comment input. This
allows an error to be thrown to indicate the problem,
which is the same behaviour as leaving either `` or `
unmatched. (Thanks to Taylor Venable)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9165</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Bugs concerning the option
<c>report_missing_types</c> that was added in EDoc-0.7.7
have been corrected: the option was misspelled in the
source, and local definitions as well as the function
tags <c>@private</c> and <c>@hidden</c> were not handled
correctly. (Thanks to Manolis Papadakis.) </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9301</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Edoc 0.7.7</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Add encoding when parsing Wiki text. EDoc used to
fail on strings such as "���". (Thanks to Richard
Carlsson.) </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9109</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> It is now possible to use Erlang specifications and
types in EDoc documentation. Erlang specifications and
types will be used unless there is also a function
specification (<c>@spec</c>) or a type alias
(<c>@type</c>) with the same name. In the current
implementation the placement of <c>-spec</c> matters: it
should be placed where the <c>@spec</c> would otherwise
have been placed. </p>
<p>Not all Erlang types are included in the
documentation, but only those exported by some
<c>export_type</c> declaration or used by some documented
Erlang specification (<c>-spec</c>). </p>
<p> There is currently no support for overloaded Erlang
specifications. </p>
<p> The syntax definitions of EDoc have been augmented to
cope with most of the Erlang types. (But we recommend
that Erlang types should be used instead.) </p>
<p> <c>edoc:read_source()</c> takes one new option,
<c>report_missing_types</c>. <c>edoc_layout:module()</c>
takes one new option, <c>pretty_printer</c>. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8525</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> The <c>edoc_lib</c> module is meant to be private,
but since it is referred to from other man pages it has
been included in the OTP documentation. The modifications
introduced in this ticket make all functions private
except those referred to from other pages. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9110</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Edoc 0.7.6.8</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Compiler warnings were eliminated.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8855</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Edoc 0.7.6.7</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Edoc now uses the new API functions to <c>inets</c>
instead of the deprecated ones.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8749</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Edoc 0.7.6.6</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>The documentation is now possible to build in an open
source environment after a number of bugs are fixed and
some features are added in the documentation build
process. </p>
<p>- The arity calculation is updated.</p>
<p>- The module prefix used in the function names for
bif's are removed in the generated links so the links
will look like
"http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#append_element-2"
instead of
"http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#erlang:append_element-2".</p>
<p>- Enhanced the menu positioning in the html
documentation when a new page is loaded.</p>
<p>- A number of corrections in the generation of man
pages (thanks to Sergei Golovan)</p>
<p>- The legal notice is taken from the xml book file so
OTP's build process can be used for non OTP
applications.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8343</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Edoc 0.7.6.5</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
The documentation is now built with open source tools
(xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One
visible change is that the frames are removed.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8201</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Edoc 0.7.6.4</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Miscellaneous updates.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8190</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Edoc 0.7.6.3</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>The copyright notices have been updated.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7851</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Edoc 0.7.6.2</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Minor updates.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7642</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Edoc 0.7.6.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Correction to work with new versions of STDLIB that no
longer has the <c>erl_internal:obsolete/3</c> function.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7539</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Edoc 0.7.6</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Minor changes.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7388</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Edoc 0.7.5</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Minor updates, mostly cosmetic.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7243</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Edoc 0.7.3</title>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Minor Makefile changes.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6689</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Dialyzer warnings were eliminated.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6737</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>EDoc 0.7.2</title>
<section>
<title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Some missing files have been added:
<c><![CDATA[~/include/edoc_doclet.hrl]]></c>, <c><![CDATA[~/priv/edoc.dtd]]></c>,
<c><![CDATA[~/priv/erlang.png]]></c></p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6457</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section>
<title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>Undefined macros only cause warnings, not errors.</item>
<item>New, built-in <c><![CDATA[@version]]></c> macro.</item>
<item>Documented the <c><![CDATA[@docfile]]></c> and <c><![CDATA[@headerfile]]></c>
generic tags.</item>
<item>Added recognition of <c><![CDATA["TODO:"]]></c> as a wiki
equivalent for <c><![CDATA[@todo]]></c> tags.</item>
<item>Added documentation about overview pages.</item>
<item><c><![CDATA['where']]></c> and <c><![CDATA[',']]></c> are allowed as
separators in specs.</item>
<item>Corrected ambiguity in spec grammar (possible
incompatibility issue - parentheses may need to be added
in some cases, in existing code).</item>
<item>Experimental (and undocumented) support for
<c><![CDATA[@param]]></c> and <c><![CDATA[@return]]></c> tags and corresponding
<c><![CDATA["..."]]></c> annotations on <c><![CDATA[@spec]]></c> parameters.</item>
</list>
<p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6568</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>EDoc 0.7.1</title>
<section>
<title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p>Fixed some broken links in the documentation.</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6419</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>EDoc 0.7.0</title>
<p>Miscellaneous changes.</p>
</section>
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