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> - adds documentation about Allegro's structures and types in a separated
> chapter. This makes "man BITMAP" possible.
+There are several structures and types defined by Allegro which are used
+in many functions (like the BITMAP structure). This section of the manual
+describes their useful content from a user point of view when they don't fit
...from an user...
+very well any of the existing manual sections, and redirects you to the
+apropiate section when it's already described there. Note that unless stated
appropriate...
+otherwise, the contents showed here are just for read only purposes, there
+might be other internal flags which you should't depend on being available in
...shouldn't... and the construct sounds a bit intricate.
+future/past versions of Allegro.
past/future
+ Structure used by Allegro's 3d zbuffered rendering functions. You are not
+ supposed to miz ZBUFFER with BITMAP even though it is currently possible.
...to mix... it is currently possible to do so.
+ A packfile structure, similar to a stdio.h *FILE structure. Read chapter
FILE structure.
+ There's no get_clip like function. To obtain the clipping rectangle of an
+ existant bitmap, check the apropiate fields of the BITMAP structure
(Hey! that's French!) existing... appropriate...
+manipulation functions accordingly. Read chapter "Structures and types
+defined by Allegro" for an in ternal view of the MATRIX/_f structures.
...internal...
> - now chapters can be x-referenced like any other node.
Nice.
> - to avoid having to manually add references to BITMAP, PALETTE, etc,
> both info and html output generate them automatically detecting those
> types in the definitions.
Cool!
> - html version is cooler, and such autotypes aren't added to the "See
> also" part, but are directly hyperlinked.
+ * Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz made the output valid HTML 4.0, made sorted
+ * TOCs, added support for cross references and optional CSS to color ,
Bogus terminating comma.
- Eric