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- TXDBGEN conversion
- ASCII-Files to HyperText in TXDB-format
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-
- (1) mark potential "title-lines" in the original "ASCII file"
- with character "&" in the first column,
-
- (2) syntax for TXDBGEN
-
- TXDBGEN <source ASCII file> <prefix for text-pages> [page length]
-
- example: TXDBGEN original.asc X 15
-
- ASCII source file : "original.asc"
- generated HyperText pages: "X0001.TXT ... 0002,..."
- page length (optional) : 15
-
- page length > 8 or < 21, default = 20 lines,
- usefull in Windows or OS/2 environment:
- for two or more shorter pages on the screen,
- navigate in two or more paths parallel.
-
-
- (3) generated HyperText pages reflects at first the old, linear
- structure of the text, with new anchors for future references
-
- the top of generated HyperText pages looks like:
-
- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | | (n)_L0052 | (p)_L0050 | |
- | ... --+- next -----+- previous--+ |
- | |
- | (n) next page in the original sequence of the ASCII-file |
- | (p) previous page in the original sequence |
- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- the bottom of generated HyperText pages looks like:
-
- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | (c)_L-c -- (s)_L0048 -- (i)_L-i -- (r)_L0051r -- (e)_L0051e -- (f)_L-f |
- | contents subtitle index remark extension figures |
- | |
- | (c) contents first page of contents |
- | (s) subtitle the first page of the actual subtitle |
- | (i) index first page for index entrys |
- | (r) remark remarks to the actual page |
- | (e) extension first page of extensions for the actual page |
- | (f) figures first page for the index of figures |
- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- (c) and (s) reflects the first, linear text structure
-
- (i), (r), (e), (f) are anchors for future extensions,
- more, contextual references can be added all the time later.
-
- The original ASCII text is converted to modular HyperText
- in TXDB format.
-
- Save a lot of work with TXDBGEN!
- The first part of the HyperText creation is ready.
-
- Next steps: - refinements, improvement in the TXDB framework.
- - insert more contextual references,
- - insert new text pages or pictures,
-
- - publish for IBM compatible PC user with TXDB.EXE,
-
- - convert to HTML format for the INTERNET browsers
- (Word Wide Web browser) with HYP-HTML.BAT also
- included in the TXDB125.ZIP archive.
-
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- TXDBGEN is merely an example to generate TXDB-HyperText.
- For improvements please contact the author.
- TXDBGEN.EXE is SHAREWARE, for permanent use please register!
- Registration fee: private user 10,-US$ / professional user 15,-US$
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- Address: Adam Szabo
- Bernhard-Rößner-Str. 13
- 82194 Gröbenzell / Germany
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