HTMLGen - An Overview
HTMLGen is a HTML script generator for OS/2.
HTML
scripts are used to generate Home Pages for World Wide Web
browsers.
HTMLGen provides a simple method for generating scripts. By
selecting the appropriate tag, a dialog box will pop-up to gather
data and fill in the script.
Adding To Desktop
To place the program on your WPS Desktop use the following
rexx script.
/* Place HTMLGen on Your Desktop */
rc = RxFuncAdd("SysLoadFuncs","RexxUtil","SysLoadFuncs")
rc = SysLoadFuncs()
rc = SysCreateObject("WPProgram","HTMLGen","","exename="||directory()||"\htmlgen.exe")
rc = SysSetIcon(directory()||"\htmlgen.exe","htmlgen.ico")
Register
REGISTRATION FORM FOR HTMLGen Version 1.10
Registration fee is $45.00 per copy.
North Carolina residents must include sales tax.
In USA and Canada add $5.00 for shipping/handling.
All other international shipments add $15.00.
See other documentation.
Send to: HTMLGen 1.10
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P.O. Box 97462
Raleigh, NC 27624
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Phone: (919) 846-2014.
Cut and Paste
OS/2 Cut and Paste fucntions to the OS/2 clip-board are availablle.
- Cut
- Press CTRL-Delete. To place mark text into the clipboard and remove it
from the script area.
- Copy
- Press CTRL-Insert. To copy the marked area to the clip-board.
- Paste
- Press Shift-Insert to copy clip-board text at the cursors position.
- Marking Text To Cut and Copy
- Press Shift and use the arrow keys to mark pieces of text in the
script area.
Primary Window Menu
There are several window menus to simplify your job.
File
The file pull down provides access to OS/2 file system.
Open
Open will load the script area with an existing. Any text in the
script area will be lost.
New
This will restart a script by removing existing text.
Save
This will save the script area to a file. If a filename has
not been defined the File dialog will pop-up.
Save As
This will save the script area to a file.
The File dialog will pop-up.
Insert Text
This will insert text from another file into the script area.
Text in the existing area will not be lost.
Browser
This will load the current text area to the defined file and
call the Web Browser you have defined on your system.
IPF Build
This will translate your HTML script into the IPF format. IPF is
used by the IBM IPFC compiler to generate INF and HLP files.
IPFC compiler is not provide with HTLMGen.
Editor
This will load the current text area to the defined file and
call an editor you have defined.
Exit
This will exit the program. Short-cut key is F3.
Options
There are three options to provide HTMLGen with Browser/Editor
and Text prompting indicators.
Browser Defined
Will pop-up a dialog box asking for the command to load
your Web browser.
Editor Defined
Will pop-up a dialog box asking for the command to load
your editor.
Text Prompting
This will turn-on/off the dialog boxes when the Tagging
functions are used.
IPF Conversion Options
There are three options available for the IPFC Conversion.
RES for Headings
Turn this on and a resource number will be assigned to each heading.
This is useful for creating HLP files. HLP files work with PM Help
functions. Resources are associated with PM items such when F1
is pressed when the cursor is on a button, defining the HELP push button,
etc...
Index for Headings
Turn this on and each heading will have a IPF index assigned to it.
For the Heading 1, only an I1 tag is created. For all other headings
an I1 tag is created and an I2 tag with a reference to the previous
I1 tag. Indexes define what shows up in the INDEX for your both HLP and INF files.
Edit Macros
This provides a dialog box to maintain your macros. Prompts are
shown in the macro list and text is entered into the macro list when
the prompt is double-clicked.
Macros are maintained an editible file HTMLGEN.MAC. The format is
rather simple. A keyword "PROMPT:" is used to indicate a new macro. Text
on the same line as "PROMPT:" is used for the macro prompt.
All text following the prompt is considered to be macro "text" that is
inserted into the HTML document when the prompt is double-clicked.
Tags
Tags are the indentifies for the browser on how to display
and format text, pull in external files, and layout the general
document.
Headings
- Title </Title> <//Title>
- The Title Tag describes the title of the HTML Document
- Heading 1 </H1> <//H1>
- The Heading 1 Tag marks the highest level sections in the document. Its text and
font are the same size as the TITLES. Think of Heading 1 Tags
as chapter indicators.
Short-Cut Key is Ctrl-1.
- Heading 2 </H2> <//H2>
- The Heading 2 Tag marks the second highest
level sections within a Heading 1 section. Its text and
font are smaller than a Heading 1.
Short-Cut Key is Ctrl-2.
- Heading 3 </H3> <//H3>
- The Heading 3 Tag marks the third highest level sections
in a document and follows
a Heading 2 section.
Its text and
font are smaller than a Heading 2.
Short-Cut Key is Ctrl-2.
- Heading 4 </H4> <//H4>
- The Heading 4 Tag marks the fourth highest level sections
in a document and follows
a Heading 3 section.
Its text and
font are smaller than a Heading 3.
Short-Cut Key is Ctrl-3.
- Heading 5 </H5> <//H5>
- The Heading 5 Tag marks the fifth highest sections and second
lowest
in a document and follows
a Heading 4 section.
Its text and
font are smaller than a Heading 4.
Short-Cut Key is Ctrl-5.
- Heading 6 </H6> <//H6>
- The Heading 6 Tag marks the lowest sections
in a document and follows
a Heading 5 section.
Its text and
font are smaller than a Heading 5.
Short-Cut Key is Ctrl-6.
Lists
- Unordered Lists </UL> <//UL>
- Unrdered lists provide the ability to set off lists of text that are prefixed by
bullets, dashes and filled circles. Unorder lists may be contained within other
list types and may contain other list types.
Short-cut key is Alt-u.
- Ordered Lists </OL> <//OL>
- Ordered lists provide the ability to set off lists of text that are prefixed by
a sequence of numbers. Ordered lists may be contained within other
list types and may contain other list types.
Short-cut key is Alt-o.
- List Item (Order/Unordered List) </LI> <//LI>
- List Item Tag provides an item within an Unorder or Order list.
List Items must appear within an </UL> <//UL> or </OL> <//OL> block.
Short-cut
key is CTRL-i.
- Descriptive Lists </DL> <//DL>
- Provides a list that contains a title and a description items.
Short-cut key
is Alt-d.
- Descriptive Title and Description.
- Descriptive Titles and Descriptions are used to mark informative areas of text.
Descriptive Title and Text appear in pairs with in a </DL> <//DL> block.
Short-cut key is Ctrl-d.
- Descriptive Title </DT> <//DT>
- This provides for title for the following descriptive text.
- Descriptive Description </DD> <//DD>
- This provides a description used with the Descriptive Title.
It may contain paragraphs, other lists and other information.
Blocks
- Preformatted Text </PRE> <//PRE>
- The preformatted tag marks text for fixed-width font with
carriage returns, spaces and tabs kept in place. This section may
contain other tags.
Short-cut key is Alt-p.
- Quoted Text </BLOCKQUOTE> <//BLOCKQUOTE>
- The block quote tag marks text for fixed-width font with
carriage returns, spaces and tabs kept in place. This section may
contain other tags.
Short-cut key is Alt-q.
- Address </ADDRESS> <//ADDRESS>
- The address tags is used to
describe the author of the document. It is
usually the last item in the document. This section may
contain other tags.
Short-cut key is Alt-a.
- Anchor Name </A> <//A>
- The anchor name text provides to ability for other
sections of the docuement to refer back to this section of text.
Short-cut key is Alt-n.
- Anchor Reference </A HREF=> <//A>
- The anchor name text provides to ability to refer back to
another section of text mark by an anchor name.
Short-cut key is Alt-r.
Formats
Formats provide changing the fonts of text.
Special Characters
- 'Less Than' character '</' is &/LT.
- 'Greater Than' character '>' is &/GT.
- 'Ampersand' character '&/' is &/AMP.
- The paragraph marker indicates a new paragraph. </P>
<//P> - can be used to indicate an end of a paragraph block.
Short-cut key is Ctrl+Enter.
Images
- Inline Images </IMG SRC=...>
- Provides inline GIF or x-systems XBM pictures to display within your the document.
Short-cut key is ALT-SHIFT-I.
- External Images </A HREF = ...>link anchor<//A>
- Refers to GIF or XBM files that reside elsewhere. It also provides for
referencing. See Anchors. Short-cut key is ALT-SHIFT-E.
Dialog Boxes
There are several dialog boxes to assist you in generating your HTML
script. These boxes can be disabled by turning off the
Text Prompting off of options. When Text Prompting is turned off,
you are not prompted for text and the tag is immediately inserted into the
script.
The titles of the dialog boxes will change depending on the
tag being generated and what type of work it is doing.
Desc Dialog Box
This box is used to define both the Descriptive Item Heading and
Descriptive Item Text. This will generate the </DT> and <//DD>
tags. If text is not entered into either fields the tagged items
are added to the script only, respectfully.
Ext Dialog Box
This box is used to define an external file anchor. The dialog will
generate the </A HREF=xxxxx#yyyyy>/zzzzz<//A> tag. Where xxxxx is the name of the
external (referenced) file, yyyyy is the named anchor and zzzzz is
the text that will be highlighted and provide linking.
Extern Dialog Box
This box is used to define an external image file and refernce text.
The dialog will generate the </A HREF=xxxxx>/zzzzz<//A> tag. Where xxxxx is the name of the
external(image file and zzzzz is
the text that will be highlighted and provide linking.
The FIND button starts the PM Find File dialog to help you search
for a file.
Supported image files are
Inline Image Dialog Box
This box provices the IMG tagto alloc for XBM and GIF format images
inside your HTML document. This tag is not recognized by all browsers.
The FIND button starts the PM Find File dialog to help you search
for a file.
Single Line Dialog Box
This box is used for tags that use a single line of text, such as
headers and the address tags.
Anchor Dialog Box
The box will allow you to define an anchor title and text.
It generates an </A> <//A> tag.
Simple Text Dialog Box
This box is used for tags that use multiple lines of text, such as
tagging formatted text or defining block quotes. The dialogs
main item is a multi-line edit field. This field supports most of
OS/2 cut and paste functions.
History Of Changes
HTMLGen 1.10 A HTML Script Generator
History of changes.
- Version 1.10 Aug. 15, 1995
- Added user-defined macro support.
- Added a backslash to the end of the special characters & < and >.
- Version 1.05 Jan. 31, 1995
- Corrected problem with data entry fields being too short or not usable.
- Improved help.
- Allowed both HTML script and IPF script screens to be re-sizable.
- Version 1.04 Jan. 25, 1995
- Corrected problem with files, i.e. your browser, being corrupted
- Enlargened field lengths.
- Corrected problem with some tags.
- Version 1.03 Jan. 21, 1995
- Integrated Browser/Editor programs.
- Added INI file.
- Improved IPF converter.
- Version 1.02 Jan. 14, 1995
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