From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-01-25T09:34:55+09:00
Subject: [ANN] RDoc learns to draw pictures...


RDoc is a Javadoc-like documentation tools for Ruby source. RDoc
alpha-9 is now available at

  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42128&release_id=71859

The most significant new feature is the addition of class and module
drawings, based on the great work of Sergey A Yanovitsky (Jah). There
are some examples at http://rdoc.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html. The
initial picture is fairly boring--click on simple_markup to see
something more realistic.

Diagram support is still experimental, and you'll eed to have the
'dot' program loaded (http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/)

The full list of changes since alpha-8 is:

        * added --help option.

	* Jah of Enticla added wonderful support for diagramming
	  classes and modules. Added new -d option to turn it on, and
	  renamed the debug option -D.

	* Added support for generating the blank page needed as the
          initial src= in the source frame.

	* The body of labeled lists can now start on the line
	  following the label, thus avoiding those hideously indented
	  blocks. This means you can write:

             This is my very long label::
                And this is the body of the list entry. See it
                glisten in the noon-day sun.

	* Added --template option and the ability to switch html
	  output templates. Included the 'kilmer' template from
          Rich Kilmer.



Have fun


Dave