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HTML Hyperedit                 
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HTML HyperEdit is a facility designed for MS-Windows(tm) users to
aid and assist in the creation of HTML documents. It also comes with
an introduction to Hypermedia

HTML documents are simply plain text documents with special tags
that client programs such as NCSA Mosaic use to decide how to 
display the text (bold, italics) and how to link documents together.

HTML is a collection of styles used to define various components of
the document.

This version (v0.2a) is largely based on "A Beginners Guide to HTML"
produced by NCSA. (Thanks guys!). 

I'm putting this together primarily for my own use, but anyone else who
may find it useful is free to use it!

Background:
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This program has been put together entirely in my own spare time for the 
following purposes:-

     1. To make it easier to edit HTML documents, including
         importing existing text documents for quick conversion to HTML
     
     2. So I could become more familiar with HTML and also
         get in a bit of Toolbook development. (I didn't have time
         to do it in C, apologies to the purists out there!)
 
     3. To provide a tool that someone who knows little
         about HTML could use for creating documents and
         learning about HTML. (I may as well make my teaching
         tasks easier too!)

Although there are some good Word macros to make HTML documents,
editors on other platforms are available etc, a Windows editor was lacking. 
So I thought I'd throw one together, primarily for my own purposes.

However, I've made it available for anyone else who may find it useful.
(FTP to info.curtin.edu.au, directory pub/internet/mswindows/hyperedit).


Features:
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The following document tags are supported:

     - Titles
     - Six levels of headings
     - Inline images, aligned top or bottom
     - Simple numbered and unnumbered lists
     - Address tags
     - Italic/citation/variable text format
     - bold/strong text format
     - fixed-width font format
     - preformatted text
     - blockquotes
     - anchors within documents
     - URL links to files, WWW servers, gopher, WAIS, telnet, News

Other features include:

     - Everything easily accessible from one screen using
       clearly labelled controls
     - Multiple documents (3 at the moment)
     - Automatic insertion of paragraph markers
     - History of previous links placed (server, directory and filenames)
       for easy referencing of the same resource again
     - An on-line HTML tutorial (lots to add to this one!)
     - Hypermedia Introduction (and this one too!)
     - Saving/Loading/Clearing of documents
     - Standard Cut/Copy/Paste/Select functions available
     - Quick-reference box which changes as you move the pointer over
       different buttons

To Install
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     - Unzip the program into a single directory
     - Activate the program from either the file manager,
       or create an icon in the program manager

My To-Do/Wish List
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These will be added as time permits, not necessarily in any order.

     - Descriptive lists
     - Printing
     - Improve speed of paragraph tagging
     - A Save dialog
     - More intelligence (eg no paragraph tags if line is a heading!)
     - Better error checking
     - Search and replace (a high priority!)
     - Documents > 30K
     - Escape sequences
     - Document preview (possibly)
     - WYSIWYG (more likely)
     - Improve interface, especially link additions
     - Add shortcut keys
     - Many other HTML capabilities
     - Lots of optimisation/tidying up to do
     - The tutorial need lots of work too

Distribution
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HTML Hyperedit is (C) Steve Hancock. 

HTML Hyperedit v0.2a may be freely distributed to anyone who wants it, 
or who may want to make use of it (subject to the disclaimer below).
 
Disclaimer
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And because of this the author accepts no responsibility for errors, omissions,
problems, loss of data, theft of computer, the weather, extinction of the dinosaurs 
or Billy Ray Cyrus records.

Contact
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Any bug reports/suggestions/grips/complaints etc please email to:

         s.hancock@info.curtin.edu.au


Steve Hancock (User Adviser)

Educational Computing Services
Curtin University Computing Centre
Western Australia