H1: 2.000beta5

!subsections "Enhancements,General Fixes,HTML Fixes,HLP Fixes,Incompatibilities"

H2: Enhancements

H3: Performance

Performance is now 2-3 times faster for most documents.
There is still some work to do here, but the performance
is now "respectable" (rather than "disappointing").

H3: Perl 5

This release has been tested with Perl 5.002 and is
configured to use it, by default. However:

* the odd "eval" buglet still (randomly?) appears when using Perl 5

* the {{CMD:mif2rtf}} script has {{2:not}} been tested.

If you wish to use Perl 4 instead, you will need
to change the top line of the scripts in the
{{FILE:bin}} directory after installing SDF.

H3: Newsletters

There is now a new style called {{newsletter}}.

The {{FILT:title}} filter now supports a {{toc}}
parameter for specifying a table of contents.
For example:

!block example; pure
!block title; toc=$var{'OPT_TARGET'} eq 'html' ? 2 : 0
Name    Value
Title   My Newsletter
Editor  Me
!endblock
!endblock

This produces a title block for a newsletter and only gives it
a table of contents when the target is [[HTML]].

H3: Pre-Filtering

{{CMD:sdfcvt}}'s -p option prefilters the input file for each argument.
The (optional) parameter is the filter to use. For example:

E:	sdfcvt -ptable mytable.tbl

is equivalent to executing {{CMD:sdfcvt}} on a file which only contains:

E:	!include "mytable.pl"; table

File extensions can be mapped to filters in {{FILE:sdfcvt.ini}}.
For example, {{FILE:sdfcvt.ini}} now contains the following:

!block example
[PreFilters]
Name    Aliases     Module
table   tbl
module  sdm,sde     frmodule
!endblock

As {{tbl}} is mapped to {{table}}, creating nicely formatted
tables is now quite easy. For example:

E:	sdfcvt -p -aformat='15,75,10' mytable.tbl

(The -a option can be used to specify prefilter parameters.)

For a given prefilter, a module can be configured in
{{FILE:sdfcvt.ini}} to be loaded before the filter is applied.
As a result, it's possible to do really clever things via
autoloaded filters. Examples include:

* automatically documenting SDF modules
* converting other formats to SDF on the fly.

For example, the following command will build the reference documentation
for a SDF module in [[HTML]] (real soon now):

E: sdfcvt +sdf2html -p abc.sdm

H2: General Fixes

The {{CMD:sdf2txt}} stuff now works.

H2: HTML Fixes

Empty cells now look better. (This was supposed to be fixed
by the previous release but I had missed a few.)

Paragraphs with multiple anchors are now handled better
(although the odd problem probably remains with this stuff).

If a table of contents is requested and SDF doesn't know
the "right" place for it, it is now prepended (rather
than being dumped).

Title blocks for correspondence look much better now.

H2: HLP Fixes

Absolute path names for libraries now correctly go into
HPJ files. / characters are now also mapped to \ characters.

Title blocks for correspondence look much better now.

H2: Incompatibilities

None.