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<H1>17. 2.000beta6a</H1>
<P ALIGN="Left"><A HREF="#2.000beta6a - Enhancements">Enhancements</A> | <A HREF="#2.000beta6a - Fixes">Fixes</A> | <A HREF="#2.000beta6a - Incompatibilities">Incompatibilities</A></P>
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<H2><A NAME="2.000beta6a - Enhancements">17.1. Enhancements</A></H2>
<P>The documentation now includes a draft version of an overview paper called <A HREF="../paper/sdfintro.html">The SDF Document Development System</A>. This is recommended reading for all SDF users.</P>
<P>For <A HREF="http://www.mincom.com">Mincom</A> users, Mincom-style title pages can now be generated for technical documents. To do this, initialise the <EM>OPT_LOOK</EM> variable using the <A HREF="../ref/minit.html">init</A> macro on the top line of the document like this:</P>
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!init OPT_LOOK='mincom'
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<P><A HREF="../ref/sdf.html">sdf</A>'s -k option can also be used to override the default look. For example:</P>
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sdf -2ps -kmincom mydoc.sdf
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<P>The <A HREF="../ref/re_sdf.html">SDF Reference</A> has been improved - most of the filters and macros now have a description and an example.</P>
<P>The <A HREF="../ref/mbuild_t.html">build_title</A> macro now outputs the date the document was last modified when the target is HTML.</P>
<P>Section jumps across documents are now supported via the <EM>doc</EM> phrase attribute. For example:</P>
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See {{SECT[doc='SDF User Guide'] Event Processing}}
in the {{DOC:SDF User Guide}} for further details.
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<P>The default <EM>target</EM> for the <A HREF="../ref/finline.html">inline</A> filter is now <EM>html</EM>.</P>
<P>The <A HREF="../ref/fnameval.html">namevalues</A> filter can now be used to specify a table of names and values. This is useful at the top of QSD procedures, etc.</P>
<P>The search order for figure importing into PostScript documents is now eps, pct, gif and finally bmp.</P>
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<H2><A NAME="2.000beta6a - Fixes">17.2. Fixes</A></H2>
<P>Under certain circumstances, figure importing into <A HREF="http://www.adobe.com">PostScript</A> documents was broken by the previous version. It should now be working again.</P>
<P>Tables with titles no longer cause blank pages to be appended to the end of the document. This was a [FrameMaker]] 5.0 bug which I now workaround by producing "simple" titles. As a result, table titles are no longer repeated when a table crosses a page boundary.</P>
<P><EM>Encapsulated PostScript</EM> figures output by <A HREF="http://www.visio.com">Visio</A> are now correctly sized.</P>
<P>URLs in <A HREF="http://www.adobe.com">PostScript</A> documents are no longer blue.</P>
<P>A large number of bugs in the QSD templates have been fixed. These had been introduced by the upgrade from <A HREF="http://www.frame.com/PRODUCTS/Products.doc.html">FrameMaker</A> to version 5.</P>
<P>The <A HREF="../ref/mbuild_t.html">build_title</A> macro (as implemented in the <EM>plain</EM> library) no longer outputs a page break after the <EM>Document control</EM> stuff.</P>
<P>Change bars no longer cause example text (e.g. source code) to be badly formatted in HTML.</P>
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<H2><A NAME="2.000beta6a - Incompatibilities">17.3. Incompatibilities</A></H2>
<P>None.</P>
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