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- Formatting a document
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-
- In this tutorial, we will construct the basics of an HTML document.
- Remember, to return to the previously referred to "Tutorial"
- documentation, click on the "AWebEd" icon above.
-
- 1 - Select "Project...New" from the pull-down menus. (Use right
- mouse button to select pull down menus)
-
- 2 - Click in the main window. Position the cursor in the top-left
- of the window. We are about to add some HTML codes; this will
- display the documentation for those codes - once you have read
- that documentation, click on the "AWebEd" icon to return here.
-
- 3 - Double-click on the TEMPLATE item in the "Simple" command list.
- This provides the essential portions of an HTML document (see
- TEMPLATE ). It may be necessary to use the scroll bars and
- arrows to the immediate right of the command list to find the
- appropriate item.
-
- 4 - Move the cursor to the third line, which should contain the
- <TITLE> codes. Move the cursor inbetween the <TITLE> and
- </TITLE> codes.
-
- 5 - Now type in the following: AWebEd Homepage
-
- 6 - Double click on the RELOAD item under the AREXX command list.
-
- 6 - Cycle through the screens ([left amiga]-m). AWebEd should now
- display your HTML document. Note the new title in the window
- title bar. Cycle back to AWebEd.
-
- 7 - Move the cursor to the portion of asterisked test, which should
- read: *Insert body here*. Note that this text lies in between
- the <BODY> and </BODY> delimiters. The Body, remember, contains
- that code which is displayed in the browser window.
-
- 8 - Delete the asterisked text , and replace it with:
- AWEBED HOMEPAGE
-
- 9 - SELECT the text by moving the pointer to the start of the text
- you have just typed, and pressing BUT NOT RELEASING the left
- mouse button. You will see the pointer change shape. Whilst
- depressing the left button, move the pointer to the end of the
- text. Then release the button. The text is now selected.
- Double click on the item "Header (Large". The tags <H1> and
- <H2> will now be inserted either side of the selected text.
-
- 10 - Click on RELOAD again. Cycle through to AWeb. AWeb should now
- display the text in a large size. Cycle back to AWebEd.
-
- 11 - Position the cursor on the line below the codes for the
- HEADER you have just created. Make sure that the cursor is
- above the </BODY> code - you may want to press the return key a
- few times to generate some space in your HTML document -
- remember that this will not show up as space when displayed on
- a WWW browser.
-
- 12 - Double-click on the " HORZ_RULE " item in the Simple command
- list. This will insert the code <HR> at the position of the
- cursor. RELOAD the document into AWeb, and cycle to AWeb to
- see what you have added. Cycle back again to AWebEd.
-
- 13 - Position the cursor below the <HR> code. Now go to the
- "Edit...Insert" pulldown menu item. Select the file
- "Example.txt" and load it in by clicking on "OK".
-
- 14 - Reload the document into AWeb again, and have a look at it.
- As is obvious, it is just an ugly looking chunk of text. Now
- to smarten it up!
-
- 15 - Move back to the top of the code, and SELECT the text from (and
- including) "Back to MENU" all the way to the end of the
- underlining beneath "Introduction". Cut that text from the
- document by selecting Edit...Cut from the PULLDOWN menus.
-
- 16 - The first line of text after the <HR> code should now read:
- "What is AWebEd?:"
- Select that line of text, and double click on the "Header
- (medium)" item from the "Simple" command list. This is
- essentially the same operation as we with the last header.
-
- 17 - Position the cursor on the line before the first paragraph,
- and double click on the "New Paragraph" item in the "Simple"
- command list. The code indicates that the following text is a
- coherent chunk of text.
-
- 18 - Now select the line which reads:
- "Features:"
- SELECT it, and make it a medium header, as you did before.
-
- 19 - Reload the document into AWeb and have another look. Still
- very garbled - time to structure it better.
-
- 20 - Move the cursor to the line beneath the "Features" header.
- Double click on the "Unordered list" item in the
- "Miscellaneous" command list. Five codes will be inserted.
- The first, <UL> signifies the start of an unordered list. The
- following three codes, each <LI>, signify the start of an item
- in the list. The final code, </UL> signifies the end of the
- list.
-
- 21 - Now select the first indented paragraph of the inserted text,
- making sure NOT to selected the preceding "-". Cut it, and
- then position the cursor at the end of the first line
- containing an <LI> code. Now select Edit...Paste from the
- PULLDOWN menus.
-
- 22 - Repeat this procedure for the rest of the indented paragraphs.
- You will need to add two or three extra <LI> codes on top of
- the ones alreay provided. Remember to add them BEFORE the
- </UL> code.
-
- 23 - Now reload the document into AWeb. If should look much better!
- You may wish to space out each item of the list by adding a <P>
- code before each <LI> code.