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# 1 DocBuilder Release Notes

This document describes the changes made to the DocBuilder application.

### 1.1 Docbuilder 0.9.8.11

#### Improvements and New Features

- The docbuilder application has been deprecated and will be removed in the R15 release.

  Own Id: OTP-9509

### 1.2 Docbuilder 0.9.8.10

#### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- fop 1.0 crashed when building the docbuilder pdf with the following message "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: factor < 0; was: -1".
  This is a known bug in fop 1.0 (fop bug id: Bug 50524) when there is a word that consist of a single soft hyphen (&shy;). this has been fixed in fop source archive but not it's not in a release yet. It's fixed in our documentation by removing the soft hyphens where this is a problem.

  Own Id: OTP-9143

### 1.3 Docbuilder 0.9.8.9

#### Improvements and New Features

- Fix compatibility issues with docbuilder for R11 documentation patches.

  Own Id: OTP-8946

### 1.4 Docbuilder 0.9.8.8

#### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- Fixed problem with a centered table that was transformed into an xml document which then produced mis-formatted html.

  Own Id: OTP-8784

### 1.5 Docbuilder 0.9.8.7

#### Improvements and New Features

- The documentation is now possible to build in an open source environment after a number of bugs are fixed and some features are added in the documentation build process.

  - The arity calculation is updated.

  - The module prefix used in the function names for bif's are removed in the generated links so the links will look like "http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#append_element-2" instead of "http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#erlang:append_element-2".

  - Enhanced the menu positioning in the html documentation when a new page is loaded.

  - A number of corrections in the generation of man pages (thanks to Sergei Golovan)

  - The legal notice is taken from the xml book file so OTP's build process can be used for non OTP applications.

  Own Id: OTP-8343

### 1.6 Docbuilder 0.9.8.6

#### Improvements and New Features

- The documentation is now built with open source tools (xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One visible change is that the frames are removed.

  Own Id: OTP-8201

### 1.7 Docbuilder 0.9.8.5

#### Improvements and New Features

- The copyright notices have been updated.

  Own Id: OTP-7851

### 1.8 Docbuilder 0.9.8.4

#### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- The element "code" with multiple CDATA or CDATA plus other data now works as expected, previously it caused a crash.

  Own Id: OTP-7236

### 1.9 Docbuilder 0.9.8

#### Improvements and New Features

- The generated html should now be valid xhtml (with a few exceptions to be fixed in next version).

  Own Id: OTP-7027

### 1.10 Docbuilder 0.9.7

#### Improvements and New Features

- New fonts and new CSS style included in generated html documents.

- Updated DTD's with new header elements copyright and legalnotice. Element authors changed to optional instead of mandatory.

### 1.11 Docbuilder 0.9.1

#### Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- Line breaks within pre are now always preserved.

  The definition of name in the cref DTD is now correctly handled.

  docb_transform: The HTML snippet returned by the Module:head() callback function is now placed below the title in the HTML file (as specified in the documentation), not on the same line.

  docb_gen: Added option sort_functions.

  Fixed bugs in cites and terms DTD, and also in book, bookinsidecover and report DTDs which are not officially supported (yet).

  License info added to all DTD files.

  Corrections and clarifications made to the User's Guide.

  Own Id: OTP-6775

### 1.12 DocBuilder 0.9

First version of DocBuilder released as part of Erlang/OTP. Previously it has been used as an internal tool only.