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Changes and Additions to OMhelp During 2009

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05-12
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03-24
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02-10
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02-07
02-06
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01-31
01-28

Description
This section contains a list of changes to OMhelp during 2009 (in reverse order by date). Its purpose is to assist you in learning about changes between versions.

05-12
There was an error in the stop option for the verbatim command. If the character just before the matching stop pattern was a newline, it was missing from the output text. This has been fixed.

03-28
Cross references generated by the hilite command do not were including the cross reference id number. This was bad because these cross references are in example code and the id numbers were not part of the example code. Cross reference id numbers are no longer included in the links corresponding to hilite commands.

Change the printable version so that the cross reference id numbers come before the text that is being linked; e.g., 1.1: Running instead of Running: 1.1.

03-24
Fix an error in configure command's detection of proper Fortran compiler.

If one used an undefined cross reference tag in a hiliteseq command, an OMhelp assertion referencing the C source code resulted. This has been fixed so the a user oriented error message about the undefined cross reference is generated.

The hiliteseq command sometimes caused preceeding text to be missing in the output. This has been fixed.

02-24
There is an Opensuse system that is finding /usr/math/bin/f77 for the Fortran 77 compiler. This compiler resulted in the configure error message: 
 
     configure:4516: error: cannot compile a simple Fortran program
In order to get around this problem, g77 and then gfortran were used as the preferable Fortran compilers.

02-12
Add a different color command and default for color for visited links (default is more like it used to be before adding the linkcolor command).

Fix bug where the after_j pattern in highlighting and cross referencing was being ignored at the end of a line.

02-10
Change the meaning of the hilite before and after strings.

02-08
Changed hilitetok to specify before and after strings and not restricted to identifies.

02-07
Added the linkcolor and hilitecolor commands.

The bgcolor and textcolor commands did not display properly in the *.xml output files. This has been fixed.

02-06
Added automatic highlighting and cross referencing commands.

02-01
The default navigation headings were changed so that Prev and Next come first. This makes it easier for the user to repeatedly select this items (because their position does not change from page to page).

01-31
Sometimes the first newline in a codep or verbatim command was not included in the output. It was thought this was due to the Display Inline bug mentioned in 09-01-28 below. Apparently not, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476324 . OMhelp has been modified so that the first newline in a codep or a verbatim command is never ignored.

01-28
Firefox version 3 fixed the NegativeSpace problem so it has been removed from the Firefox Bug List . It also fixed the underbar problem and a lot of the improperly displayed symbols, so they were also removed from the bug list.

A Display Inline item has been added to the Firefox bug list.
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