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* Explicitly bless in the documentation, and fix in the man backend,Simon Tatham2004-08-06
| | | | | | | the practice of using \dt and \dd in anything other than the obvious interleaving. [originally from svn r4417]
* Right; I'm finally sick of typing \q{\cw{foo}}, so I've invented aSimon Tatham2004-07-16
| | | | | | shorthand command \cq{foo}. [originally from svn r4327]
* Note that \cfg{quotes} and friends apply to the output in its entirety andJacob Nevins2004-06-19
| | | | | | can't be changed partway through. Also, add a cross-reference from \q{}. [originally from svn r4298]
* Initial rough documentation of some of the newer \cfg{} directives, namely:Jacob Nevins2004-06-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | - \cfg{quotes} - text, info, man, and winhelp backends: - charset - quotes and bullets - various WinHelp miscellanea Could stand some rearrangement and expansion, plus I've yet to address the paper or HTML backends. [originally from svn r4295]
* The Halibut manual contained at least one instance of two indexSimon Tatham2004-06-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | terms (intentionally) differing only in case, which were being silently folded into one by the case-insensitive index tag comparison. Halibut now warns in this situation (but then folds them anyway, which I think is better than silently generating an index containing many case-distinct forms of the same word - I imagine it's very easy to do that by mistake). The manual has been fixed to explicitly define distinct keywords (in the case I spotted and in five other cases picked up by the new warning!), and also documents this issue and how to work with it. [originally from svn r4279]
* Er, don't forget to document the disallowing of \q within \c. Ahem.Simon Tatham2004-06-12
| | | | [originally from svn r4278]
* Oh, and now the text backend warns about too-long code lines, I'dSimon Tatham2004-04-23
| | | | | | better remove the one too-long code line in the manual :-) [originally from svn r4129]
* Don't forget to mention the default setting for \cfg{input-charset}.Simon Tatham2004-04-20
| | | | [originally from svn r4106]
* Support for \cfg{input-charset}. Input files can now be in ASCII,Simon Tatham2004-04-19
| | | | | | | 8859-*, UTF-8, or a variety of more fun encodings including various multibyte ones. [originally from svn r4095]
* Support the \W{...}\i\c{...} combination used in the NASM manual.Simon Tatham2004-04-15
| | | | | | | | Halibut is now capable of reading the old NASM manual with only minor modifications, and probably doing a much better job of formatting it than rdsrc.pl ever did. (Certainly much _faster_!) [originally from svn r4081]
* After printing out the PDF manual and reading it through, here's aSimon Tatham2004-04-14
| | | | | | | | collection of minor edits for clarity, and also quite a few intended to keep down the length of lines in code paragraphs (because Courier is not just a thoroughly ugly font but is also WAY TOO WIDE). [originally from svn r4076]
* Jacob pointed out various important facts missing from the HalibutSimon Tatham2004-04-04
| | | | | | manual. Added them. [originally from svn r4038]
* For some reason I decided it was better to say `output format'Simon Tatham2004-04-01
| | | | | | | consistently in the documentation than to confuse matters by saying `back end'. One rogue back end removed. [originally from svn r4028]
* Simplify treatment of the copyright notice, now I've also simplifiedSimon Tatham2004-03-30
| | | | | | | | | the preamble: \copyright paragraphs are now treated identically to normal paragraphs (so they appear precisely where they're put instead of in a fixed location), _except_ that the Windows Help backend also copies their text into the help file's copyright slot. [originally from svn r4001]
* I always meant to remove emphasis in the index by default. Now I doSimon Tatham2004-03-30
| | | | | | so. It's restorable using \IM. [originally from svn r4000]
* The manual is now fully indexed.Simon Tatham2004-03-30
| | | | [originally from svn r3999]
* Couple of extra points: forgot about the \i\cw special case, andSimon Tatham2004-03-27
| | | | | | | Jacob points out that I didn't specify whether inline formatting commands can surround line breaks (they can). [originally from svn r3994]
* Second instalment of the manual: added a chapter on output formats.Simon Tatham2004-03-26
| | | | | | | | I _think_ the manual now contains all the information a user should need, even if not yet in an optimal order for a beginner to learn from. [originally from svn r3989]
* Introduce \. as a NOP command. The purpose of this is to act as aSimon Tatham2004-03-25
| | | | | | | | | zero-width delimiter between a macro invocation and text beyond it, so that you can define (say) a macro which expands to a Euro sign and then write `\eur\.2500' to avoid having space between the Euro sign and the number. [originally from svn r3982]
* Obsoleted the `\preamble' command. Preamble text is now taken to beSimon Tatham2004-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | any ordinary displayable paragraph(s) appearing before the first chapter heading, meaning in particular that you can put lists, code paragraphs etc in preambles. Of course, `\preamble' is still supported for backwards compatibility, but it's now a zero-effect paragraph marker. [originally from svn r3981]
* First instalment of a manual for Halibut. This lot covers theSimon Tatham2004-03-25
(nearly nonexistent) invocation syntax and the input format. [originally from svn r3979]