How it works...

How Many warp '040s do I need to use this?

None. You need Final Writer Release 3 or above ( untested on earlier releases) and Arexx active and running on your Amiga. If you can run and print from FinalWriter, then you should have enough memory to get CBS working. It has been succefully tested on A1200 with 7.5Mb Fast Ram, running Shapeshifter in 5.3 Mb (leaving only approx 2 Mb for Workbench3.0)
The program files take up approximately 180k of hard disk space.

Introduction bit

Once you've loaded in all the macros to your copy of Final Writer, there will be three additional button strips for you to use which create HTML documents.
Save your final writer document as normal, giving it a name such as index. Then, if you select the save button from the CBS button strip, CBS will create an ASCII text file index.html, and also re-save your finalwriter document. This 'transparent saving' means you only ever need to edit the final writer document within CBS, rather than having to mess about with a text editor.

Arexx Macros

The way CBS works is two fold. If text has been selected, and a button is pressed, it does an intelligent input - that is, the text selected is placed within the HTML code.

If a button is pressed with no text selected, it adds the HTML code, and then places the cursor in an intelligent position - that is, where you would want it to be. for example: if I type :- This link and then click on the Anchor button, I get : <A HREF="">this link</A> ... with the cursor positioned between the two quotes, ready for you to type.

If I don't type anything, and click on the Anchor button, I get:- <A HREF=""> blah</A> ... with the cursor positioned between the two quotes, ready for you to type.

Textclips

some of the buttons are simple text clips. These do not have the intelligent cursor positioning, but do allow you to customise your text clips nicely. When a text clip button is pressed, the text clip contents are placed where the cursor is. Be careful though ! a text clip will also replace what ever is currently selected.

See This reference to see a list of the functions and which buttons run text clips..

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