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HTML Markup 1.0ß4
(c)1995, by Scott J. Kleper
Released on 6-24-95
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HTML Markup is a drag-and-drop Macintosh text->html converter. There are many
programs that seem to accomplish similar tasks. However, HTML Markup takes a
slightly different approach to the conversion.
When you drag a file or files onto the HTML Markup icon, you are presented with
a "job ticket" that allows you to check off your conversion options. The final
version of HTML Markup will have a few more options than this version. The
options currently available are:
•Use first line as <TITLE>
This option will take the first line of your text file and make it the
title of the HTML document. If you do not use this option, your HTML file
will have no title. In the final version, there will be additional options
like using the file name for the title. Note that if you use this option,
the first line of your file will still remain in the HTML form and will
also be the title.
•Use first line as <H1>
This option will take the first line of your text file and make it an <H1>
header for the file. The line will not be repeated and this option may
be used with the above option.
•Center <H1>
This option is only used with the above option. It centers the <H1>
described above. If the above option is not used, this option is
ignored.
•End lines with <BR>
This option will terminate every line with the <BR> flag. Personally,
I would almost never do this. One of the reasons I wrote HTML Markup
was because the converter that I used to use would do this and it
pissed me off. Still, I can see why some people would want to terminate
every line so I made it an option.
•Convert lists to <UL>'s (modified in 1.0ß4)
Markup looks for -'s and •'s and converts items listed much like this
list of options into <UL> lists. Versions 1.0ß4 and later of HTML
Markup contain a new "smart list" algorithm that attempts to identify
lists from dashes and bullets used in words.
•Convert lines to <hr> (new in 1.0ß4)
Markup looks for a series of dashes and changes them into an <hr> line.
•Keep inline flags (new in 1.0ß4)
Markup keeps anything contained within < and > characters in the new
file. In this way, you can write text files with embedded HTML and use
HTML Markup to add in the mundane stuff like the <HTML> and <BODY> flags.
•Output ticket (modified in 1.0ß4)
A new button and dialog control the output options for the html file.
You can now automatically append .html to files and save them that way,
you can replace the original file, or you can be prompted to save the
file. You can also set the creator signature of the file so that your
files can all be native to your favorite text editor or to netscape.
The registered version will also have options to control colors, headers, footers,
titles, comments, and other aspects of HTML design.
The fourth beta (second public beta) version is a big step towards the release
version. I have implemented a totally new method for allocating memory, made
some aspects of conversion "smarter", added more translations, put in more
options, revised the interface slightly, and added output features. Unless I
get some good ideas soon, this is how the shareware version will look upon
release. The only feature I am planning to implement but haven't yet is a
popup menu in the output ticket that allows you to select popular file creators.
Version 1.0ß4 is also the first to (almost) implement the entire ISO 8859-1
character set. The most popular "special characters" have translations, as
well as some international characters like ñ.
Please send me your comments and ideas! If you want to register now (even
though it's still in beta stages) and guarantee yourself a registered copy
of the release version, it's just ten bucks.
Send your check for $10 to:
Scott J. Kleper
134 Caversham Woods
Pittsford, NY 14534
Questions? Comments? Bugs? Ideas? Send email to:
sjked@rit.edu
The WWW support page for HTML Markup is:
http://htc.rit.edu/klephacks/markup.html
The FTP site is:
ftp://htc.rit.edu/pub/
Enjoy!
-Scott J. Kleper
6/24/95