From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-03-06T12:51:16+09:00
Subject: [ANN]  RDoc Alpha C


RDoc is a Javadoc-alike documentation tool for Ruby. The latest
packaged version is Alpha-C.  It adds the following new features:

   * Add xml support (--fmt xml). Reorganize the template
     directories.  Add the -one-file option (currently only
     useful for XML).

   * Add RDF generation.

   * Add support for parsing C extensions.

   * Add support for SimpleMarkup-only files (any file not .rb or
     .c) which contain just a block comment.

   * Add contrib/ directory. Currently contains David Alan
     Black's alpha release of Formatting Object support, allowing
     RDoc to generate PDF, Postscript etc.

   * New options:

     o Add --exclude option, which prevents file and directories
       matching a pattern from being included in the
       documentation.

     o Add --inline-source option to allow source code to be
       included in the body of the document, and not in popups.

     o Added --charset option.

     o Diagram image format now selectable using the
       --image-format option.

     o --opname sets the name of the output (for formatters that
       need it)

   * Add support for link: hyperlinks. These are hyperlinks to
     local files, assumed to be relative to the --op directory.

   * Force auto-generated ::new method to be public, and added
     :notnew: directive to prevent automatic conversion of
     #initialize into ::new.

   * Drop the font size of <pre> down to 1.2em.

   * Sort list of classes and modules in the summary page.

   * Fixed various parsing issues (see ChangeLog).

The packaged download is available from:

  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42128&release_id=78258

The latest CVS development sources can be found using the
instructions:

  http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=42128


Cheers


Dave