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Changes and Additions to OMhelp During 2015

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10-14
10-12
10-11
10-10
10-08
10-07
06-03
06-02
05-31
01-18
01-10

Description
This section contains a list of changes to OMhelp during 2015 (in reverse order by date). Its purpose is to assist you in learning about changes between versions.

10-14
Make the flex, bison programs optional for both the Unix and Windows install process.

10-12
  1. Remove a lot of duplicate index entries from the documentation (note that the aindex command is used to automatically index words in headings and subheadings .
  2. Improve get_started section and headings/indexing to its subsections.
  3. A warning, that suggests one not use the path command, was added.


10-11
  1. The $syntax command has been deprecated and most of it's use in the OMhelp documentation has been removed.
  2. The $math command has been deprecated and most of it's use in the OMhelp documentation has been removed.
  3. The $number command has been deprecated .
  4. The OMhelp documentation was changed to use headings instead of tables for documentation command syntax; e.g., see the $cref syntax .


10-10
  1. Remove invisible white space for all the source code files; e.g., a space at the end of a line.
  2. Shorten the copyright message at the beginning of each source code file.
  3. Remove two old Harmonic Software copyright messages because the copyright was transferred to Bradley M. Bell; see 2003-10-19 .
  4. Add the deprecation date for wspace , xref , fend , -l , and -i .
  5. Remove many of the uses of the deprecated commands from the OMhelp documentation (so it serves as a better example of how to document).


10-08
  1. The default value for tabsize is now the same as its value at the end of the root section .
  2. The tabsize command was not affecting the size of tabs in codep commands. This bug is connect to (started with) the addition of hilite command. It has been fixed.


10-07
Some very common and simple words; e.g. an, are now excluded from automatic indexing; see excluded words .

06-03
  1. Add an $aindex command in the aindex of the OMhelp documentation. This improves the OMhelp documentation index and search search sections.
  2. The old auto-tools install procedure has been removed from the unix install instructions and cmake has been added to its requirements.


06-02
  1. Modify the install process so that it is no longer necessary to build the omhelp documentation begin installing omhelp
  2. Improve the documentation for the spelling list files english.wrd , local.wrd , and dictionary.bin .


05-31
Added MathJax display of Latex mode in *.htm files. This helps for browsers, such as Chrome, that do not support MathML. See Difference Between MathML(xml) and MathJax(htm) Display.

01-18
The download and install procedures where changed to use cmake instead of the configure script generated by the auto-tools. See the new InstallUnix and InstallWindows procedures.

01-10
The program would sometimes crash while reporting spelling errors in keyword index commands. This bug was introduced on 2014-07-20 where misspelled words are only reported once per section. It has been fixed.
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