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Newt's Cape is a tool for viewing content. Like Newton Press, it can be used to create books (directly on the Newton). Like a web browser, you can view pages from the Internet (assuming you have installed Newton Internet Enabler (NIE) on your NOS 2.x Newton).
You can use Newt's Cape to
You can access HTML documents from:
To start Newt's Cape (on the Newton):
HTML is an evolving standard, with many possible syntactic variations and uses. Newt's Cape should handle most common tags and attributes -- those that are in the HTML 2.0 standard, with some from the HTML 3.2 proposal -- and gracefully ignore those that it does not understand. Generally, Newt's Cape does best with what we have documented and tested -- thanks to our registered users for additional testing and feedback.
HTML is based on/implemented in SGML. SGML (ISO 8879) is language for the representation of documents (actually, it's a language to describe languages); most WYSIWYG document editors deal with just the presentation of documents. As an author, you can focus more on the content, structure and intent of documents, and leave most of the display and format details to the viewing application, e.g., web browser. You sacrifice some immediate control over appearance in exchange for portability.
Since complete SGML can be quite daunting (akin to using a programming language) and many editing tools don't keep tags from cluttering the content, many potential users have used the acronym "Sounds Good, Maybe Later". Although SGML may be needed for large, complex, industrial-strength document collections, HTML can be quite useful as an introduction to SGML-like concepts and as a tool in its own right.
To make Newt's Cape available to many users at a reasonable price and to continue to fix and adapt it rapidly based on user feedback, we are distributing it as shareware. After a few days of trial use, you should Register Newt's Cape if you continue to use it. Newt's Cape and associated documents, files and tools are © 1995-98, S. Weyer and G. Simon, All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Please check with us before redistributing.
Although most of the Newt's Cape documentation is available here, by registering you can receive additional documentation, other tools (NewtPack, Sloup and Newt's Cape Graphic Converter), more support, priority, examples, and answers, early access to new versions, and relief from "Shareware Procrastination Guilt Syndrome".
This document (in all its formats) is © 1995-98. Steve Weyer, Greg Simon. All Rights Reserved Worldwide
Version 1.5. Last updated: Jan 1998