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- AUTOHTML
-
- Version 5.2
-
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-
- Overview:
-
- AUTOHTML creates a multi-page web site from text source files in the
- current directory. The first page is always called TOC.HTML and is a
- table of contents linking to the other pages.
-
- A page is created for each source file. If the defaults are selected,
- a separate table of contents file will be created for each page, with
- the name tocxxxxx.htm where xxxxx is the last five characters of the
- source file name.
-
- The title for the first page is received from the command line as a
- parameter supplied to AUTOHTML.EXE. Enclose this text within speech
- marks, or only the first word will be picked up! Each entry in the
- first page (TOC.HTML) is derived from a single text line in a file
- with the same name as the source file, but with the extension .TIT
- (short for title). If a TIT file can not be located in the current
- directory, the source file name is used. This title is also used to
- head the source web page and any table of contents page for that
- source file.
-
- Links are automaticaly created whenever a word refers to another item
- heading in any of the source pages. Multiple links to the same topic
- within a section can be supressed with the "duplicate links=no"
- setting in autohtml.ini.
-
- An alphabetical global index (gi.htm) is created providing links to
- all topics in all files processed.
-
- Source Files:
-
- Source files follow the KNB format; Simply these are comprised of an
- item heading line prefixed by an asterisk, thus:
-
- *This is an item heading
-
- followed by any number of lines of text which comprise that item's
- data.
-
- To force a link to a multiple word heading, replace spaces with under
- bars (_) within the item data, for example:
-
- This example will link with Greater_London.
-
- A collection of KNB text files relating to mythology are supplied as
- an example.
-
-
- Command Line:
-
- AUTOHTML "Title For First Page"
-
-
- Automatic Links:
-
- Automatic links will only ever be made to the current page or to the
- first source file, in alphabetical order, containing a reference to
- the item. You can force other files to be linked first by so naming
- them as to be alphabetically earlier. Eg; a file 'AAA.TXT' will be
- scanned before a file called 'BAA.TXT'. For example. If the title
- PARIS occurs in the current page and in another page, a link will be
- made to the current page reference for PARIS. If however, the title
- PARIS occurs in three pages, but not in the current page, then a link
- will be made to the reference PARIS in the page named first.
-
- Table Of Contents:
-
- The format of each table of contents is either a list, or a table.
- Defined by toc table=yes or toc table=no in autohtml.ini. If a tabular
- format table of contents is required, the number of columns, border
- and cell spacing information is read from the autohtml.ini file.
- Otherwise these parameters are ignored.
-
-
- Limitations:
-
- AUTOHTML will not create graphical systems. It is designed to carry
- out the donkey work of linking multiple machine-readable text files
- into a fully linked web site. If you want in-line graphics, forms,
- links to other URLs and so on then you will have to add these your
- self.
-
-
- AUTOHTML.INI:
-
- AUTOHTML acceses a configuration file (autohtml.ini) in the directory
- where autohtml.exe resides. This configuration file may be amended to
- change the format of the created web site.
-
- NB:
- Under Windows 95, autohtml may have trouble locating the required
- autohtml.ini file unless it is present in the current directory.
-
- [preferences]
- case sensitive=no (Should links match on case)
- separate table of contents=yes (Table of contents separate to main
- data)
- main title font=1 (Font 1-6 for main title)
- sub title font=2 (Font 1-6 for subsequent title lines)
- toc font=3 (Font to display table of contents
- entries)
- source=knb (Source file extension)
- toc table=yes (Use table format for each table of
- contents)
- columns=3 (Number of table columns)
- width=100 (Table width as a % of screen width)
- cellspacing=2 (Table cell spacing)
- border=10 (Table border)
- align=left (Table cell alignment, left, center or
- right)
-
- [item]
- title font=2 (Font 1-6 for item titles)
- data font=4 (Font 1-6 to display item data)
- title italic=yes (Item titles Italic yes or no)
- title bold=yes (Item titles Bold yes or no)
- duplicate links=no (Whether subsequent links to the same
- topic should be made within a
- paragraph)
- no recurse=no (If no recurse=yes, links to items
- which point straight back to the
- calling item are supressed. This
- slows processing down a lot, and
- is not normally required)
-
- advanced=yes (Use advanced options. These options
- override the title font and data
- font settings above if advanced=yes)
- background="space.gif" (Backgound image)
- bg colour="#000000" (Background colour)
- text colour="#FFFFFF" (Text colour)
- link colour="#FFFF00" (Link colour)
- alink colour="#000000" (ALink colour)
- vlink colour="#FFFF00" (Visited link colour)
- title size=5 (Item title size)
- title colour="FF0000" (Item title colour)
- data size=3 (Item data size)
- data colour="F0F0F0" (Item data colour)
-
- [ignore]
- ; Any words in this section will not be linked
- ; This section may include a maximum of 500 words
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- Compatability:
-
- AUTOHTML has been tested with NCSA Mosaic, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- and Netscape.
-
-
- Frequently Asked Questions:
-
- Q. I only have one source file, autohtml creates four HTML files. How do
- I get around this?
-
- A. Autohtml always creates a primary table of contents HTML file
- called TOC.HTM and a global index file called GI.HTM. This provides
- a link to all the source files. If you only have one source file,
- then you can delete the TOC.HTM file. If you have separate table of
- contents=yes set in the autohtml.ini configuration file, then two HTML
- files will be created for each source file. The name of one file will
- commence TOC and this is the table of contents for the other data file.
- Rename this table of contents file to TOC.HTM and your web site is
- done.
-
- Q. Autohtml doesn't create any HTML files. What's wrong?
-
- A. Autohtml searches the current directory for files with an extension
- matching the source= setting in the configuration file
- autohtml.ini. Probably you have an incorrect extension set in the
- configuration file. Remember, the extension in the source= line
- does not include a period, eg:
-
- source=knb
-
-
-
- Q. When I try to view the HTML files in Mosaic, Mosaic crashes. Help!
-
- A. Mosaic is a rather fragile HTML viewer. Try splitting the source
- files down into more smaller files.
-
- Q. When I try to run autohtml under Windows, it crashes. What's wrong?
-
- A. Windows (and especially Windows 95) has a very poor memory manager.
- The shareware version of autohtml is best run in DOS mode. The
- registered version will generally run under Windows with out any
- problems.
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