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- DeScribe HTML Macros August 1996
- Thanks for your interest
- These macros and documentation are updated as of 8/3/96.
- Before you do anything else, help yourself by printing these
- instructions for later reference!
- These macros are a casualuser's attempt to ease coding of HTML
- documents I know how to use DeScribe and I didn't want to learn a new software package to create Web pages. Check out
- http://www.wln.com/~crc/ to see what can be done with these
- macros. Not all HTML tags are implemented, but you can get
- an idea of how you can do your own. I've included the
- common tags I use. This includes images, tables, lists
- (ordered and unordered) and 6 levels of heading. I'm a
- WARP, IBM WebExplorer and DeScribe user. The macro names
- are longfilenames. Since you are a DeScribe user I assume
- you use the longfilenames too. This of course means you
- have the HPFS file system installed. The macros and
- the tool bar are zip compressed and self-extracting.
- The macros must be downloaded to your default DeScribe macro directory.
- After downloading:
- Switch to an OS/2 window. Change the directory to your macro directory (for example: d:\describe\macro) Enter descmacs (to
- start the extraction) Respond to the ZIP message if you
- need to write over old copies Enter exit You are
- all done extracting! Now start up Describe
- Now, breathe a sigh of relief!
- After you start DeScribe, switch to the new tool bar
- (HTMLTOOL),by going through the Options then
- Load Custom Tools menus. After doing that, and
- seeing your tool bar change, use the right mouse to find out
- what each button does. On this tool bar the upper left
- button, if you click and hold button-1, gives you a choice
- of tool bars to use. This way you can very easily drag the
- mouse to go back to your default tool bar. On the HTMLTOOL
- bar I used a few liberties when reassigning pictures to
- functions!! So check those symbols out first! I've tried
- to group similar functions together. Using the
- macros
- WARNING The base macro, HTML, assumes you have a
- document named ABLANK.HTML in whatever directory you are
- working on!!! So take a moment and create that document
- now, in whatever directory you normally use. This was a BIG
- oversight on my part in the earlier releases.END
- WARNING If you don't want to create a document, that is
- fine, simply start a new blank document in DeScribe and
- begin to use the macros, simply don't use the HTML macro
- itself. :-}
- A word of caution, always leave a carriage return,
- new line, new paragraph or whatever your background mental
- genealogy calls it, below the current cursor position if you
- are creating new documents. If you are editing and
- modifying an existing document the macros will anticipate
- data between the start and end of markup tags. Many of them
- insert the markup at the current cursor position and then go
- to the end of the paragraph and back one position to insert
- the ending tag. I think HTML is short hand for Heavy
- Timeless Mental Lapses
- More cautions -
- DeScribe defaults to a DeScribe document when you
- save. Therefore remember to save your HTML file as
- ASCII. Unlike other editors, DeScribe holds
- onto a file following a save. If you want to drag and drop
- your new html document to WebExplorer to see how it looks,
- you must close it first! This adds time and
- inconvenience to the process, but it works for me, maybe it
- will for you too. I also shot myself in the foot when I
- cautiously save macros as ASCII after recompiling them.
- Don't try it! It doesn't work! Save them as only DeScribe
- documents. For the curious there is documentation and
- a list of the macro names in the files you downloaded.
- The filename is htmldocfile. It is a DeScribe document.
- READ IT!
- It is to be found whereever you downloaded and unzipped
- the macros.
- This page was built with the macros. Have fun,
- experiment, and don't give up! If you want to see
- another way to present data, especially complex table data,
- which is hard to do - yet you might have a lot in DeScribe,
- look at this method. Since
- the January update the significant change is a macro
- which converts DeScribe tables to HTML tables, complete with
- markup. The only caveat is do not leave extra carriage
- returns in any cells. Each carriage return is translated
- into a new cell, and that will really foul up your HTML
- table. If you needed to use a carriage return within a
- DeScribe cell, then replace that with a HTML break symbol
- before you convert the table.
- Comments welcome:
- Dave Palmerdpalmer@wln.com7475 State Route 12
- Oakville, WA 98568360/273-8117
- html4des.html November 12, 1995
- Updated November 15, 1995
- Revised on: December 16, 1995
- Revised on January 11,1996
- Revised on August 3, 1996
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- December 4, 1996
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- December 4, 1996
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- December 4, 1996
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