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CVS repository has been migrated to SVN.

Mar 2008 - V4.99.36
Gergely Budai
o Added option --source_line_numbers to include original source line numbers
in the documentation.
o Minor RTF format bugfix.
o Fixed bug 1888454, "dot files are placed in the wrong directory".
o Replaced the CRC32 based string hash algorithm with the one written by
Bob Jenkins. It supposed to be faster.
o Included some new and fixed some older test cases.
o Removed the implicit generation of DOT pdf images for latex output.
o Merged patch: [ 1845277 ] "Fix for unclosed <a> tags". (Thanks to m-35.)

The latest stabe ROBODoc version (4.99.34) is now also available as a part of the Cygwin distribution.

Just go to your favorite Cygwin mirror and look for it under the category "Devel".

Gergely Budai: added option --header_breaks, which allows ROBODoc to insert line breaks after every specified number of header names to improve readability.

Frans Slothouber: Merged patch by Tom Keal that Fixes bug in parsing of the robodoc.rc file. (The wrong number of items is recorded for the preformatted_items and format_items block.)

Apr 2007 - V4.99.32
o Fixed bug 1706446, --sectionnameonly and --rtf format problem
o Fixed bug 1679101, "robodoc crashed on a faulty header".
o Added the option --no_subdirectories.
o output mode pipes at the end of an item don't result in broken
formatting anymore.
o Items that start with non-ascii characters are now recognized.
o makefile.plain works again
o the item names in the 'item order', 'ignore items', and other items blocks
in the robodoc.rc file are checked against the list of allowed item names.
o the options --sections and --toc do no longer lead
to an assert() with --ascii
o Added item sorting. The order in which items are to
appear in the documentation can be specified in the
robodoc.rc file.

Frans Slothouber
o Removed form-feed from ASCII output
o Applied patch from Christian Vigh to make ROBODoc compile
under MSVC++ V7
o Applied patch from Wim van Hoydonck to fix a bug
in the escaping of '_' in the names internal artifacts
for LaTeX output.
o Fixed makefile.plain
o ROBODoc compiles without warnings using
make -f makefile.plain

Gergely Budai
o Using bitfields in stead of and-ing with a define.
o Function name separator can be configured to be something
different than ','
o Added a configuration block that allows the used to
specify which items are pre-formatted by default.

A new stable release of ROBODoc has been released.
It contains a number of improvements: headernames may now include spaces, a header can now have serveral names to allow documenting serveral similar objects with a single header, the manual now includes header examples with several languages, the manual now has examples on how to use the docbook output.

In addition to this the website has been redesigned and ROBODoc now has a blog (http://docuwala.blogspot.com).... read more

ROBODoc is a documentation tool. It extracts the documentation from comment-headers in the source code and formats it in HTML, RTF, LaTeX, ASCII, or XML DocBook. It works with C, C++, Perl, shell scripts, Tcl, Fortran, HTML, XML, makefiles, configuration files and any other language or script that supports remarks.

Release 4.99.6 is the new stable release. Compared to 4.0.24 the following changes have been made:... read more

ROBODoc is a documentation tool. It extracts the documentation from comment-headers in the source code and formats it in HTML, RTF, LaTeX, ASCII, or XML DocBook. It works with C, C++, Perl, shell scripts, Tcl, Fortran, HTML, XML, makefiles, configuration files and any other language or script that supports remarks.

Release 4.0.24 is the new stable release. Compared to 4.0.18 the following changes have been made:... read more

ROBODoc is a documentation tool. It extracts the documentation from comment-headers in the source code and formats it in HTML, RTF, LaTeX, ASCII, or XML DocBook. It works with C, C++, Perl, shell scripts, Tcl, Fortran, and many other languages that support remarks.

Release 4.0.18 is the new stable release. Compared to 4.0.6 the following changes have been made:

You now can define your own header types. This means you can now document anything you like unittest script, make rules, or recipes. This is done with the headertype block in the robodoc.rc file. In HTML mode the master index is split-up into several smaller indexes, one per header type. This is especially handy with large projects. Singledoc mode now also uses cascading style sheets and it is possible to define your own cascading style sheet that is used instead of the built-in CSS. The new option --rc allows you to specify an alternative configuration file. This makes it easy to quickly generate your documentation in several formats. A lock mode (--lock) was added. Per source file ROBODoc locks on the first headermarker it finds and will recognize only that particular headermarker for the remaining part of the file. In addition it locks on the first remark marker in each header and will recognize only that particular remark marker for the remaining part of the header. Markers
were added for Aspen Custom Modeler (ACM), Fortran, VB, and for DB/C. It is now allowed to have a documentation directory that is a subdirectory of the source directory. The documentation directory is skipped while ROBODoc scans for source files. Wildcard expressions can be used to tell ROBODoc which files and directories not to scan for documentation. The manual has been updated and extended.... read more

ROBODoc is a documentation tool. It extracts the documentation from commentheaders in the source code and formats it in HTML, RTF, LaTeX, ASCII, or XML DocBook. It works with C, C++, Perl, shell scripts, Tcl, FORTRAN, and any other language that supports remarks.

Release 4.0.6 is the new stable release. Compared to 4.0.0 it is mainly a bug fix release. Several small but anoying bugs have been fixed. In addition ASCII output has been re-enabled. ... read more

ROBODoc is a documentation tool. It extracts the documentation from commentheaders in the sourcecode and formats it in HTML, RTF, TeX, or ASCII. Works with C, Tcl, FORTRAN, and any other language that supports remarks.

Release of ROBODoc V4.0.0

All previous versions of ROBODoc operated on a single file and created
a single output file. To create the documentation from all the source
files of a project a makefile had to be written. Documentation was
created in two steps, one for the crosslinks and one for the actual
documentation. It was possible to work with subdirectories but this
required a lot of wizzardry.... read more