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- W e b W r i t e r / 2
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- Version 1.0
-
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- A HyperText Markup Language editor for OS/2.
-
- Don't write Home without it!
-
-
- Written by John Blumel.
-
- (C) Copyright 1995 John Blumel.
- All rights reserved.
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-
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- WebWriter/2 is an HTML editor designed and written for OS/2.
-
- Currently WebWriter/2 directly supports the creation of HTML version 2.0
- documents. It also includes the capability for the user to define tags which
- are not currently supported, allowing users to include tags from more recent
- HTML specifications. At least some knowledge of HTML is assumed and no syntax
- checking of documents is performed.
-
- This version of WebWriter/2 was released on August 19, 1995. If this
- version of WebWriter/2 is more than a couple of month's old or if you just want
- to make sure that you are up to date you may wish to check for the latest
- version at:
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- http://www.wilmington.net/bmtmicro/ww2.htm
-
- Or you may contact me through one of the methods listed in the Getting Technical
- Support section below.
-
- WebWriter/2 is shareware and its use and distribution are subject to the
- terms specified in the license.txt file and the license panel of the on-line
- help.
-
- Thank you for trying WebWriter/2. I hope you find it both useful and easy
- to use. If you have suggestions for enhancements or useability improvements,
- or if you discover defects in WebWriter/2, please contact me through one of the
- methods listed in the Getting Technical Support section below.
-
- WebWriter/2 is implemented in REXX using Watcom International Corporation's
- VX-REXX.
-
- ________________________________________________________________________________
-
- NOTE
-
- The file README.HTM is an HTML version of this document which can be loaded
- into a WWW client.
-
- ________________________________________________________________________________
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- INSTALLATION
-
- Prerequisites:
-
- 1. You must have installed OS/2 REXX support.
- REXX support is installed automatically with OS/2 version 3.0 (i.e.,
- Warp). If you have using a 2.x version of OS/2 you will need to
- install REXX support using the Selective Install utility if you have
- not already done so.
-
- 2. You must have the file vrobj.dll.
- If the .zip file containing this file did not include vrobj.dll, you
- can retrieve vrobj21c.zip from:
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- http://www.watcom.on.ca/fix_vxrexx/vrobj21c.zip
-
- It is also available via anonymous ftp from:
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- ftp.watcom.on.ca/pub/bbs/wrexxpf/vrobj21c.zip
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- Installing WebWriter/2:
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- 1. Install OS/2 REXX support, using the OS/2 Selective Install utility if
- necessary.
-
- 2. Unzip ww2_100.zip into a temporary directory.
-
- 3. Make sure that
- a. vrobj.dll exists in a directory in your LIBPATH.
- or
- b. You have the file vrobj.dll in the directory that you unzipped
- ww2_100.zip into.
-
- 4. If you are reinstalling WebWriter/2, delete the WebWriter/2 Folder and
- Program objects before continuing.
-
- 5. Run Install.exe.
-
- 6. You may wish to view the readme file that is loaded in the WebWriter/2 -
- Installation window before you continue.
-
- 7. Select Install/Install from the WebWriter/2 - Installation menu to start
- the installation process.
-
- 8. Fill in the Install WebWriter/2 options and click Continue. You may wish
- to install VROBJ.DLL to the C:\OS2\DLL directory rather than another
- directory which will need to be added to your LIBPATH statement in your
- CONFIG.SYS file.
-
- 9. WebWriter/2 will be installed using the entries you have made and a
- WebWriter/2 folder and program objects will be created on your desktop.
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- 10. If your CONFIG.SYS was updated you will need to shutdown and restart your
- system for the changes to take effect.
- ________________________________________________________________________________
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- USING WebWriter/2
-
- WebWriter/2 allows you to create HTML documents from scratch or to markup
- existing text documents. You may also preview documents using either IBM's
- WebExplorer or another WWW client including Netscape. If you use IBM's
- WebExplorer as your WWW client you can use WebWriter/2 as your viewer for HTML
- document source. For more information on how to do this consult the
- WebWriter/2 on-line help.
-
- WebWriter/2 uses a MSDI (Multiple Single Document Interface) method of
- editing multiple documents. You can open as many WebWriter/2 windows as you
- want as long as you can keep track of what you are doing. To help manage the
- open documents you may wish to display the WebWriter/2 - Window list. You can
- do this by selecting it from the Windows menu or from the OS/2 window list.
- Clicking mouse button 2 on the WebWriter/2 - Window list will bring up a context
- menu of options.
-
- To insert HTML tags, select the desired tag from the Tags menu. Tags which
- have additonal or optional elements will present the user with a dialog
- prompting for the necessary information. Additional tags may be defined and
- inserted by selecting Tags/More tags... . Special characters can be selected
- from the Characters menu or from the Character entities dialog which is
- displayed by selecting Characters/More characters... . When inserting HTML
- tags, selected text will be wrapped by the tag if it is two sided. One sided
- tags will be inserted before selected text. Character entities will be inserted
- before selected text.
-
- More detailed information on specific features of WebWriter/2 can be found
- in the on-line help which is now available.
-
- If you are not familiar with HTML you may wish to obtain one of the many
- books available on this topic. "Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a
- Week" by Laura Lemay ( SAMS Publishing, 1995 ) is a good book for beginners.
- By the time you read this "Teach Yourself More Web Publishing with HTML in a
- Week" by Laura Lemay ( SAMS Publishing, 1995 ) should be on the shelves. There
- are also many WWW sites which provide up to date HTML documentation and
- examples. Although these are too numerous to list here, one good site is:
-
- http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html
-
- You can refer to the HTML20.HTM file included with this .ZIP for basic HTML
- information.
-
- ________________________________________________________________________________
-
- WHAT'S NEW
-
-
- NEW IN VERSION 1.0
-
- Enhancements:
-
- 1. WebWriter/2 now has full context sensitive help. Most of the help
- information that was previously in this readme file can now be found in
- the on-line help.
-
- 2. The Tag manager & Character manager dialogs are now resizable and no
- longer resize themselves when columns are displayed and hidden. This
- can allow these dialogs to be used as palettes for Tags and Character
- entities by resizing them to display only the tag or character name and
- making them as tall as desired to display many tags or characters at once.
-
- 3. The speed of the "Change all" option of the Find dialog has been
- increased considerably.
-
- 4. The "Change to" string in the Find dialog is now saved between
- invocations of this function.
-
- 5. You can now preview without saving from the default document directory.
- This option can be specified on the Paths page of the settings notebook.
- This is particularly useful for previewing documents with images which
- are stored in the default directory or for testing links to other
- documents in the default directory.
-
- 6. The Printer setup dialog now allows you to specify wrapping of printed
- output at up to 106 columns. This defaults to wrapping at 80 columns.
-
- 7. Accelerators were added to several menu items in the Tags menu.
- The following accelerator keys can now be used for inserting tags:
-
- a. Headings
- - Alt+1,2,3,4,5 or 6 will insert the
- corresponding heading tag (<Hn></Hn>).
- b. Paragraph
- - Alt+P will insert the the paragraph tag
- (<P></P>).
- - Ctrl+Enter will insert a newline then the
- paragraph tag.
- c. Horizontal rule
- - Alt+H will insert a <HR> tag.
- d. Line break
- - Alt+B will insert a <BR> tag.
- e. List item
- - Alt+I will insert a <LI> tag.
- - Shift+Enter will insert a newline and then a
- <LI> tag.
- f. Unordered list
- - Alt+L will insert the <UL></UL> tag.
- g. Ordered list
- - Alt+O will insert the <OL></OL> tag.
-
- 8. Technical support has moved to:
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- jblumel@gs.net
-
-
-
- Fixes:
-
- 1. Fixed a problem where the document path used in file dialogs would be
- changed to the TMP directory following previewing a document.
-
- 2. If Cancel was clicked in the "Save as" dialog when previewing a document,
- the preview would continue. This was changed so that the preview
- operation is now cancelled as well as the save.
-
- 3. The "Printer setup" dialog would get lost behind other open windows if
- another window was clicked on while the dialog was open. The "Printer
- setup" dialog is now system modal and must be closed to continue.
-
- 4. Fixed a problem with the Edit window not refreshing properly following no
- more occurences for a "Change then find" operation. This along with the
- not found message was somewhat confusing.
-
- 5. If the settings notebook was opened while many Edit windows were open,
- the open windows would not properly refresh their settings when the
- notebook was closed. This resulted in the preview applications
- disappearing from the File/Preview menu. This was changed so that the
- Edit windows refresh their settings the next time they become active
- rather than immediately. This avoids the problem which seems to have
- been caused by sharing conflicts when accessing the .ini file.
-
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- NEW IN VERSION 0.9 BETA 2
-
- Enhancements:
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- 1. You can now define and insert your own tags using the Tag manager dialog.
-
- 2. Enhanced drag and drop support.
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- 3. Enhanced support for non-English characters.
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- 4. Multiple preview applications may now be configured.
-
- 5. You may now, optionally, display a status bar which will display hint text
- describing menu items. For tags and character entities the element
- inserted when the menu option is selected is displayed.
-
- 6. You can now select the printer you wish to print to including direct
- printing to an LPT device using the OS/2 print command. Direct to LPT
- printing can be useful if you are having trouble printing to an OS/2
- printer. This can also allow 2 & 4 up printing if you have a utility
- that supports this.
-
- 7. WebWriter/2 now uses the C level patch version of VROBJ.DLL.
-
-
- Fixes:
-
- 1. A problem with WebWriter/2 locking up on startup including locking up the
- entire OS/2 system has been fixed.
-
- 2. A problem with the edit window contents sometimes not redisplaying
- properly when a document was inserted or opened has been fixed.
-
- 3. Problems with locating the exact position of text in the edit window
- during find and replace operations have, I believe, been resolved by the
- Patch level C version of VROBJ.DLL and minor code changes.
-
- 4. Many annoying little problems which somehow manged to slip through to the
- first beta release.
-
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- REGISTERING WebWriter/2
-
- If you decide that you wish to continue using WebWriter/2 beyond the 30 day
- evaluation period, you will need to register it. The registation fee is $30.00
- U.S. When you register you will be sent a registration code. After you enter
- your registration information WebWriter/2 will display your name in the Product
- information dialog, the Registration menu will no longer appear on the Edit
- window menu bar and dialogs reminding you to register will no longer be
- displayed.
-
- Please print and fill out the register.txt file included with WebWriter/2.
- If the copy of WebWriter/2 you obtained did not include the register.txt file,
- send the following information:
-
- - Your name
- - Postal address
- - Email address
- - Phone (Home/Work)
- - WebWriter/2 version number
- - How you obtained WebWriter/2
- - Any other comments you may have
-
- To register send a check or money order in the amount of the registration
- fee(s) payable to John Blumel and drawn on a U.S. bank to:
-
- John Blumel
- 1949 Green Oak Drive
- Terrytown, LA 70056
- USA
-
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-
- For convenience of payment, you may wish to register WebWriter/2 through
- BMT Micro. BMT Micro will accept the following forms of payment:
-
- - Visa
- - MasterCard
- - Discover
- - American Express
- - Money Order
- - Cashiers Check
- - Personal Check
-
- Checks and money orders should be made payable to BMT Micro. Registration
- through BMT Micro may be done in any of the following ways:
-
- Mail Orders: BMT Micro
- 452 Horn Road
- Wilmington, NC 28412-2411
- U.S.A.
-
- Voice Orders: 9:00am - 7:00pm EST (-5 GMT)
- (800) 414-4268 (orders only)
- (910) 791-7052
-
- Fax Orders: (910) 350-2937 24 hours / 7 Days
-
- BBS: (910) 350-8061 10 lines, all 14.4K
- (910) 799-0923 Direct 28.8K line
-
- If you wish to place the order through BMT Micro via Mail or Fax, please
- print and fill out the BMTOrder.txt file which was included in the WebWriter/2
- archive.
-
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- Corporations and/or organizations interested in site licenses should contact
- the author (John Blumel) prior to registering.
-
- ________________________________________________________________________________
-
- TECHNICAL SUPPORT
-
- Known Problems
-
- 1. Some characters do not display properly in the "Character entity" dialog.
- These characters have been replaced with a text description equivalent in
- the Character column. The character entity inserted when one of these
- characters is selected is however correct.
-
- This problem is due to the fact that codepage 437 which is the default
- for English language installations of OS/2 does not support display of
- these characters. I am currently exporing options for a workaround for
- this problem. This would involve use of codepage 850 and would require
- that this codepage be specified as either the primary or alternate
- codepage in the CONFIG.SYS.
-
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- Getting Technical Support
-
- For technical support, suggestions or to report bugs in WebWriter/2, I can
- be reached at:
-
- jblumel@gs.net
-
- Or:
-
- John Blumel
- 1949 Green Oak Drive
- Terrytown, LA 70056
-
- Technical support will not be available from 2 weeks preceding Mardis Gras
- until after Ash Wednesday.
-
- ________________________________________________________________________________
- ________________________________________________________________________________
-
- (C) Copyright 1995 John Blumel.
- All rights reserved.