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Images aren't displayed centred?
 
 
Get the current ST-Guide version. Since Release 15 the ST-Guide can center images itself.
 
How does UDO create the title page and the table of contents?
 
 
The title page and the table of contents are displayed inside a special node. The title page node is named "Title". The node that contains the table of contents is named "Main".
 
To let the ST-Guide display the first page of the hypertext (this will be the title page in most cases) just pass the name of the hypertext. To let the ST-Guide display the table of contents pass the node name "Main". How you can call the ST-Guide from programs you can read in the HCP hypertext.
 
How can I suppress the headlines?
 
 
UDO prints a headline in every page by default. The headline contains the current node name and the title of the hypertext. The headline will be displayed underlined.
 
Using the switch !no_headlines [stg] inside the preamble you tell UDO not to create these headlines.
 
How does UDO insert hypertext links?
 
 
UDO just insert hypertext links when you use (!link ...) and (!xlink ...). All the other hypertext links will be inserted by the HCP.
 
How does UDO convert labels?
 
 
The UDO command !label will be replaced by the HCP command "@symbol ari". You have to check yourself if there's a node or a label existing with the same name.
 
How can I make popup nodes?
 
 
Using the !pnode and the familiar commands you can tell the ST-Guide to display the contents of the node inside a dialog box instead of a window.
 
But you have to remember that text inside a popup node may have up to 12 lines of text with 60 characters per line only. Furthermore no images and links are allowed inside a popup node.
 
UDO breaks line after 60 characters but it doesn't print an error message if you use more than 12 lines, images or links inside a popup node.
 
There's always an empty line at the end of a popup node, why?
 
 
UDO reads in the source file line by line. If an empty line appears UDO will print the last paragraph and an empty line for separation.
 
UDO does the same when printing the text of a popup node. The problem cannot be solved, I'm sorry.
 
Some cells of my table are too wide, why?
 
 
The ST-Guide has a built-in italic correction which is active in tables, too. Unfortunately the ST-Guide adds a blank when it reads an italic-off command. This problem can only be solved by Holger Weets, the author of ST-Guide.
 
Thus you shouldn't use italic text inside tables when converting to ST-Guide until Holger doesn't offer a command for disabling the italic correction.
 
The HCP prints the error message "please add...", why?
 
 
If the HCP prints the error message "please add a @subject-command to this text" at the end of converting the STG file you have forgotten to insert a line like the following one at the beginning of your UDO source file:
 
!stg @subject "Documentation/Utilities"

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