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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 0.9.1</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    All incorrect (that is, all) uses of "can not" has been
	    corrected to "cannot" in source code comments,
	    documentation, examples, and so on.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-14282 Aux Id: PR-1891 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.9</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    The HTML reference documentation shows the OTP version
	    where modules and functions were first introduced.
	    Versions older than R13B04 are not shown.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-15460</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Make html documentation of C functions with many
	    arguments more readable.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-15637 Aux Id: PR-2160 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.8.1</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Indexing for the online search function has been
	    corrected for CREF documents.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-14406</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.8</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Add a hoverable element to the titles in the html
	    documentation with a link to github where the
	    documentation can be edited.</p>
          <p>
	    Make the anchors in the html User's Guide and system
	    documentation use the title of the sections instead of a
	    generated id.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-14979</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.7.3</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p> Update makefile so db_funcs.xsl is a part of the
	    installed application. </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-15091</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.7.2</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p> The style for code, warning and note tags in the pdf
	    have been changed so they look like the html version.
	    <br/> The spacing around code blocks have been changed
	    for both html and pdf so it's the same regardless if the
	    user have a newline after the start tag (or before the
	    end tag) or not. </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-14674</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.7.1</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    General Unicode improvements.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-14462</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Erl_Docgen 0.7</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Sort index of C functions alphabetically in the sidebar.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-14333 Aux Id: ERL-393 </p>
        </item>
        <item>
	    <p> The right side index of functions now handle
	    functions with same name but different arity. </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-14431</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Improvements in the OTP documentation style.</p>
          <p>
	    (Thanks to Mariano Guerra)</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-14371 Aux Id: PR-1215 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<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 &lt;img&gt; 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>

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