otl

tag-remove was enhanced substantially. It can now
handle multiple filenames (and deal with globbing)
on the command line. A "preserve links" (--plnk)
option for tag-remove was added, so the user has
the option of preserving <a> and </a>
tag information, and a --help option was also
added. In addition, otl now adds a HTML title tag
by default, using the content of the first line of
the input document unless a line is already
present in the input document with the title tag.

Several major bugs were fixed. Input filenames are
now handled correctly. The last line of the input
file is handled correctly. Empty items in the
parameter file are processed correctly. Custom
parameter files are handled correctly. Several
minor features have been added, including a
"--no-tags" option to avoid processing lines which
begin with XML tags, better support for "start"
items, and line grouping using the "\" character.
The README file was updated to be easier to
understand.

otl now processes documents containing multiple
ordered lists correctly, regardless of length or
nesting. The --debug flag can now be used with otl
and tag-remove to give verbose output. The
tag-remove script now cleans up the input file
(removing extraneous control-M characters, tabs,
and spaces) and recognizes and removes XML-type
tags that span multiple lines.

In this version, nested lists are processed better, and there
is improved documentation in the HOWTO . A GNU autoconf
automake framework was added so install is more of a no-
brainer, a --pfile flag is now used to indicate a parameter
file, filename globbing is now dealt with, the parameter file
was modified so it specifies the file suffix to tag on output
file, diagnostic information that is written to stdout has been
trimmed, the project now checks to see if the file is already
present before overwriting, and a second script, "tag-
remove", was added.