How to use this eXtensible
eManual

All the .htm files that are to be read and all the .gif and .jpg and .wav files to be embedded are in the directory with ew_read.htm (which you will load in your browser which is assumed to be compatible with Netscape 2.0 and with Javascript 1.0. I've tested it only in Netscape Navigator 3.0 and Internet Explorer 3.02. I've used Dan Shafer's 1995 book Javascript & Netscape Wizardry to keep my objects and properties in line with the NN 2.0 and IE 3.0 (Javascript 1.0) capabilities.

To change the "table of contents" buttons on the left, pull toc.htm into PocketPad or eWriter (or another text editor, though these two are set up for writing HTML punctuated text). Look at the button entries. Pick out the label and the file reference for each button and change these to what you want. To add buttons, copy and paste the full entry for a button and place it under the last one (and above the ending tag for FORM). Make your changes to that copy.

If you make long labels on buttons or add so many that the browser puts in a scrollbar, you'll want to "widen" that frame. Do that in ew_read.htm where the frame sets are defined.

To change the top band, pull in top.htm and add your "personal copy" title page notes, if you wish, below the copyright notice. You can, in fact, take the four files that consitute the "book shell," ew_read, ew_top, ew_toc, and ew_intro, and use them as a "template" for making an ebook. Rename and rework the files, gather your .htm file "papers" or "chapters" or "pages," and build up a book. You might want to build such manuals or reference works for the work (and contexts) in which you are using eWriter. In fact, I've an Author's guide to the eBook in the form of an eBook that you can have at no cost. Email me that you want it and I'll send it by return email assuming you can receive a MIME encoded .zip file. That's acorioso@ccnet.com

Gene Fowler
January, 1998
revised, September, 1998
revised, January, 1999