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<title>Erl_Docgen Release Notes</title>
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<p>This document describes the changes made to the <em>erl_docgen</em> application.</p>
<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.6.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Docgen would previously emit "utf8" as the default
encoding in xml. This has now been remedied by emitting
the correct string "UTF-8" instead.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13971</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.6</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Improve types and specs in OTP documentation generated
from Erlang source files. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13720 Aux Id: ERL-120 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.5</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Generate HTML anchors for data types without
<c>name</c> attribute. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13600 Aux Id: Jira: ERL-141 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Updated make rules so it's possible to use the
xmllint target for checking the system
documentation.<br/> Removed usage of non defined DTD tag
(output) from the system documentation and corrected a
number of xml faults. </p> <p> Added support for quote
tag and a new level of header formatting in erl_docgen.
</p> <p> A fault when generating html for manual set
markers for section headings is corrected so now is the
title visible after hyperlink jump. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13638</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Corrected the space handling for the seealso tag.
</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13639</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Sort the modules function index alphabetically. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13668 Aux Id: PR-543 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.4.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Correctly generate anno tags for maps keys</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12955</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.4.1</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Updated the xmllint target to just check the xml
files with real documentation content.<br/> Corrected
some errors and added some missing target in the DTD's.
</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13026</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.4</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Add possibility to add extra information on
documentation front pages. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12722</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.3.7</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Maps: Properly align union typed assoc values in
documentation</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12190</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.3.6</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Fix spec to doc generation from erl_docgen and edoc for
maps</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-12058</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.3.5</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Application upgrade (appup) files are corrected for the
following applications: </p>
<p>
<c>asn1, common_test, compiler, crypto, debugger,
dialyzer, edoc, eldap, erl_docgen, et, eunit, gs, hipe,
inets, observer, odbc, os_mon, otp_mibs, parsetools,
percept, public_key, reltool, runtime_tools, ssh,
syntax_tools, test_server, tools, typer, webtool, wx,
xmerl</c></p>
<p>
A new test utility for testing appup files is added to
test_server. This is now used by most applications in
OTP.</p>
<p>
(Thanks to Tobias Schlager)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11744</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Handle map types in docgen_edoc_xml_cb</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11776</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.3.4.1</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
The encoding of the <c>notes.xml</c> file has been
changed from latin1 to utf-8 to avoid future merge
problems.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11310</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.3.4</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Correct a PDF indentation bug for tagged lists in
tagged lists and added some missing tags to the DTD. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10725</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Support for Unicode has been implemented. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10302</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Where necessary a comment stating encoding has been
added to Erlang files. The comment is meant to be removed
in Erlang/OTP R17B when UTF-8 becomes the default
encoding. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10630</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Some examples overflowing the width of PDF pages have
been corrected. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10665</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.3.3</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> A possibility to configure erl_docgen so it can
generate documentation for other products than
Erlang/OTP. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9040</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.3.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> A bug regarding spaces in C function prototypes has
been fixed. (Thanks to Richard O'Keefe.) </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10138</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.3.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Some links in C libraries were not generated
correctly. This bug has been fixed. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9832</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Set `font-family: Courier, monospace' in OTP doc CSS</p>
<p>
left Courier as the primary original font and also added
monospace as secondary for people which in Linux does not
have it installed.</p>
<p>
Also adds minor cosmetic changes to the CSS. (Thanks to
Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9918</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
When generating from edoc it is now possible to use
ranges in specs and <img> tags in the description.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9970</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Optimize and improve handling of multiple func:s.
</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9877</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> The generation of the libraries' HTML documentation
has been optimized. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9893</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.3</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Bug fixes concerning the generation of manpages. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9614</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Fix syntax bug in eix files. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9617</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Bug fix concerning the generation of manpages. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9759</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Fixed an arity calculation bug for erlang functions
in the documentation index for html and pdf. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9772</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> The docbuilder application is removed in R15 and
parts still used in the OTP documentation build process
and the DTD documentation is moved to erl_docgen. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9721</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.2.6</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Bug fixes. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9360</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> The manpage generation has been improved. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9541 Aux Id: OTP-9550 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p> Fix eix file generation for new function spec
references. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9562</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> The function signatures in the pdf files was not in a
fixed font. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9563</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> The parts level in the system documentation was
missing in the bookmarks menu for the pdf and the
copyright year generation for PDF was not correct. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9576</p>
</item>
<item>
<p> The indentation after <c>Warning:</c> and
<c>Note:</c> in manpages has been improved. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9588</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.2.5</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> The support for using Erlang specifications and types
has been improved. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9261</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>erl_docgen 0.2.4</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Subsections below level 2 where not handled correct when generating html and pdf.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-90730</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>erl_docgen 0.2.3</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Fix format_man_pages so it handles all man sections
and remove warnings/errors in various man pages. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8600</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Support for using Dialyzer specifications and types
has been added. This is an experimental release; changes
are expected before the new functionality is used when
building the OTP documentation. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8720</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>erl_docgen 0.2.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Fixed the transformation from xml to html of the
funcs block in comref pages. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8792</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>erl_docgen 0.2.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
The text within code examples (CODE and PRE tags) will not be
space normalized for man pages.
</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8476
</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>erl_docgen 0.2</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Added an xsl transform from OTP xml documentation to a
file (.eix) of erlang terms that can be read by the
erldoc application. Erldoc handles the documentation
search mechanism at erlang.org. Added generation of eix
files to otp_release_targets.mk. Fixed a copyright date
error in db_html.xsl .</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8308</p>
</item>
<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>erl_docgen 0.1</title>
<section>
<title>Improvements and new features</title>
<p>This is the first release of erl_docgen for internal use.</p>
</section>
</section>
</chapter>
