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Document-fast This function generates a document initially containing the base template
for a HTML page without input dialog.
Document-dialog This function generates a document initially containing the base template
for a HTML page with input dialog. Procedure:
Select menu item File->new->dialog. A new dialog will be started. Via this dialog you first should define
the file and the location, the file has to be stored. Now you can fill in the fields important for your
project. Important are the text fields for the description of the page and the keywords relevant for the
new page. This information will be used to generate so called Meta-Tags. Meta-Tags are used by search
engines to locate a page in the World-Wide-Web. Colors for the page background, the text and for links
can be defined via the provided buttons.
After clicking the "OK" button the base content of the page will be generated.
Project
Use this menu item if you want to define a new project. A project joins files or documents logically
belonging together.
First determine the file name for the project and confirm the input. Now you can provide additional
information describing the project in more detail.
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Save mode 2:
Files are saved in the folder in which the directly preceeding file has been saved with "save as" (not
in the folder the file has been loaded from!).
There is no warning, if a file with an identical name already exists!
This mode can be used to change several files one after the other and to save these modified files
e.g. in an upload folder. By this it is not necessary to permanently switch folders.
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HTML-Format supports multiple undo/redo actions. Undo removes previously provided input and redo reconstructs input deleted by an undo action.
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(Displays the selected text as a heading.)
Procedure
Highlight the text that has to be displayed as a heading and select one of the provieded "heading X"
menu entries. This generates the surrounding tags, that cause the browser to display the highlighted text
as a heading of level X. Remind that a level 1 heading uses a larger font than a level 4 heading. You
can invoke this function also via the key sequences [Ctrl+1] to [Ctrl+4].
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[This function may also be selected via the button bar]
(Changes the color of the highlighted text when displayed via a browser)
Procedure
Highlight the text for which the color should be changed. Then select menu item "color". The required
tags will be generated and the text cursor will be located at the place you have to insert the color code.
Finally you have to provide the desired color code.
Note: For a quick selection the button bar shows those 10 colors most recently used. You can change this function via the option menu item so that the default colors will be kept for quick selection. (see "Options")
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[This function may also be selected via the button bar]
(Changes the highlighted text to bold when displayed via a browser.)
Procedure
Highlight the text which should be shown in a bold font. Then select menu item "bold". The required
tags will be generated which cause the highlighted text to be presented in bold if displayed via a browser.
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[This function may also be selected via the button bar]
(Changes the highlighted text to italic when displayed via a browser.)
Procedure
Highlight the text which should be shown in an italic font. Then select menu item "italic". The required
tags will be generated which cause the highlighted text to be presented in italic if displayed via a browser.
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[This function may also be selected via the button bar]
(Underlines the highlighted text when displayed via a browser.)
Procedure
Highlight the text which should be shown underlined. Then select menu item "underline". The required
tags will be generated which cause the highlighted text to be presented underlined if displayed via a
browser.
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[This function may also be selected via the button bar]
(Centers the highlighted text when displayed via a browser.)
Procedure
Highlight the text which should be shown centered. Then select menu item "center". The required tags
will be generated which cause the highlighted text to be presented centered if displayed via a browser.
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(Makes the highlighted text a comment. A comment will not be displayed by a browser.)
Procedure
Highlight the text which should be made a comment. Then select menu item "comment". The required tags
will be generated which cause the highlighted text to be changed to a comment so that it is not displayed
by the browser.
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If enabled via the HTML-Format options tables can be indented according to their actual level.
Text rearragement after BR, Highlighting of P (reverse-indent, that is: move one level up).
Via the options it can be selected, that only tags are indented not immediately following another tag
(no blank between the tags). This may be needed if you want to place graphics without a gap into different
table columns.
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Replaces "Umlauts" in the source text by the relevant umlaut-variable according to the HTML-Format options set (e.g. not inside the "applet" tag) (see options).
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This function allows to search for an item in the source text. The HTML-Format options allow to extend
the search on all open files or on all files of the actual project. The search result is presented in
the search result table (at the left of the editor window). This allows quick and easy navigation between
the various search locations.
If the search result table is not visible it can be popped up via the menu item "Visibility->project"
Starts an additional search for the same search item beginning at the current cursor position
This function allows to replace parts of the source text by another text block (supports replacement
also for multi-line text).
The HTML-Format options allow to extend the search and replace action on all open files or on all files
of the actual project.
Starts an additional search and replace action for the same search item beginning at the current cursor
position. This function is extremely valuable if the same text has to be exchanged multiple times in several
files. To do this, just switch to another open file (via menu item "document") and press 'F4' or select
the function in the symbol bar.
-> Please keep in mind, that the last input is saved. This means that the last search item (regardless
if entered via the search or replace function) and the last provided replacement text is used.
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Starts a table generation dialog
Table
The following attributes can be determined via this dialog:
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Inserts a new row into a table
The cursor must be placed inside a syntacticaly correct table. The number of columns is automatically detected by HTML-Format.
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Inserts a list
The following attributes can be determined via this dialog:
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Inserts a new list item.
If a text is highlighted ist will be included into the list item.
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Inserts a graphic..
a) Selection dialog
Procedure
This function is only valid, if a save path has been defined. Without the path it is not possible to
determine the relative location of the graphics-file with respect to the location of the HTML-page.
Place the cursor at the location you want to insert the graph but do not highlight any text. Select
menu item "graphic". If the HTML document path and the graphics path is not identical you can choose whether
HTML-Format automatically should use relative path specification. This can also be specified via the HTML-Format
options.
b) Shortcut
Procedure
Enter the file name of the graphic to be inserted into the source text. Highlight the file name and
select menu item "graphic". The same dialog as above will pop up, but the graphic file will be already
specified.
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Inserts a hyperlink into the document.
Procedure
Enter the description of the hyperlink to be inserted into the source text. Highlight the description
and select menu item "Link". The required tag will be generated and the cursor will be positioned where
the link address has to be specified (after "http://"). The correct link address has to be provided manually
as input.
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Procedure
Enter the description of the internal hyperlink to be inserted into the source text. Highlight the description
and select menu item "Internal link". The required tag will be generated and the cursor will be positioned
where the link address (name of the internal anchor points) has to be specified. The name of the internal
anchor point has to be provided manually as input.
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Procedure
Enter the description of the anchor for a potential hyperlink to be inserted into the source text. Highlight
the description and select menu item "Define internal anchor point". The required tag will be generated
and the cursor will be positioned where the name of the internal anchor point has to be specified. The
name of the internal anchor point has to be provided manually as input.
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Generates an eMail-Link in the actual document.
Procedure
Select the relevant menu item or symbol in the button bar. A selection dialog will be started which
allows the specification of the required information.
eMail-recipient
The address to which the e-Mail should be sent.
Linktext
Here you can provide the text to be presented by the browser which triggers the mail program when clicked.
Subject
Here you can specify a subject to be used for the e-Mail. This can be the heading of the section of
the document where the e-Mail link is located. This can be useful when browsing through a list of mail
items in the in-box).
copy and blind copy recipients (cc: and bcc:)
This is to specify copy recipients. To enable this function you must mark the relevant check-box.
Predefined text
An introductory text at the beginning of the e-Mail. This text is placed at the top of the text window
of the e-Mail program.
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This menu item or the key combination "Ctrl - Enter" inserts a BR-tag at the current cursor position into the open document.
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This menu item or the key combination "Alt - Enter" inserts a P-tag at the current cursor position into the open document.
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Via the menu items "Preview with browse 1" to "Preview with browser 3" you can invoke an external browser to view the cureently open document. Which browser to exploit is queried during the first usage of the function. A selected browser is stored by HTML-Format for future use. If you want to change browsers you can do this via "options->additional settings->select browser". Here you can redefine browser 1 to browser 3. If you want just test a browser or use a browser in single session you can specify the browser via "Other browser". A browser specified this way will not be stored by HTML-Format. A browser specified under "browser 1" will also be used for the presentation of the HTML-Help file.
By specifying a prefix or suffix you may specify also other external programs (parser, syntax checker, ...) to be used by HTML-Format. The entry is not for browsers only.
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This plug-in is Shareware and must be registered. As long as it is not registered the invocation is defered for some seconds and it is enabled only to test the function.
This powerful analysis plug-in allows to test the open HTML-file with regards to how well it may be
found and rated by commercial search engines.
This plug-in detects defects of your HTML-document which may inhibit the search engine to show it at
a top position. It provides tips how to improve the document.
Please register the plug-in if you want to use it. You will receive via e-Mail a code that permanently enables it.
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place-holder:
"max. blanks" , "max. tab" and "max. enter" determine the maximum allowed number
of consecutive characters of the specific type that should be kept in a document (e.g. when highlighting
?????) The formatting of the document by HTML-Format is not affected by these place-holders.
In a row:
The selected tags (if arranged in a sequence shorter than the available line length) will be kept in
a single line for readability reasons.
Indent:
"Indent with tab" determines, whether tags should be indented with tabs or not. If this function
is enabled "number of spaces" is ignored. "Number of spaces" provides an integer number determining
how many blanks should be used to indent the various tags.
Line length:
"Line length" is a threshold value, which should not be exceeded by a line without indentation.
Indentations in tables are not affected by this value. This threshold value may be disabled for applet-tags.
Indent tables:
If "Indent tables" is enabled, nested tables are indented according to their nesting level.
"Only when blank preceeds tag" (default=on) inhibits the insertion of spaces during automatic formatting at positions blanks are not allowed. This is important, if graphics should be shown without gaps. A separation with a space (blank)would cause the browser to insert a gap between the pictures.
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In this part of "Options" you can specify parameters needed to start external programs (e.g. a browser). Besides the program specification you can in addition set the following parameters:
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Prefix | The prefix is the part of a parameter which is presented to an external program immediately in front of the provided file name. In the complete invocation sequence "netscape -reload file://verzeichnis/Datei.htm" "-reload file://" is the prefix. |
Suffix | The suffixis the part of a parameter which is presented to an external program immediately after of the provided file name. In the complete invocation sequence "pgm_name C:\verzeichnis\Datei.txt -compress -crypt" " -compress -crypt" is the suffix. |
Provide file with path | Via this setting a file name can be presented to an external program without complete path specification. This might be needed, if programs locate files via "http://localhost/" - in this case it is not allowed to provide an additional path specification to the external program. |
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Auto-completion of tags saves keyboard input. For a provided start-tag automatically the relevant end-tag is generated. To achieve this it is only required to hold down the "shift"-key a little longer during the input of the ('>') character.
Auto-completion of tags on:
Enables or disables the function.
Complete unknown tags:
If this function is enabled, HTML-Format completes all tags. This includes also those tags, which are
not explicitely specified via the HTML-Format options. Exceptions are those tags specified under "tags
not to be completed".
Complete tags preceeding text with no space:
If this function is enabled, HTML-Format compeltes even tags which are entered immediately in front
of document text. This may be a little awkward, if you want to enclose a word between a start-tag and
an end-tag manually.
tags to be completed:
If unknown tags should not be completed, you can explicitely define the tags to be completed here.
tags not to be completed:
You can explicitely define tags here, which never should be completed.
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Save:
HTML-Format is capable to work with different "open (source)" and "save (target)" path specifications.
"reset path after open" (default) establishes - after a new file has been opened - the path under
which the file has been opened as the "save (target)" path. "Always last save path" keeps - after
a new file has been opened - the path under which the last save action occured as "save (target)" path.
This is very effective. Just save a file in a directory, all following files should be saved. Now you
can open files from the "open (source)" path and save them in the "save (target)" path with a single click
e.g. to the "save" menu item. This of course makes only sense if the target path is different from the
source path.
This can be an "upload" path which holds all files not yet uploaded to the internet server.
Colors:
This checkbox determines whether the actual colors should be shown in the button bar under "edit" or
if always the default colors should be shown.
Via button "Default Colors" the default colors can be reestablished.
Insert graphic:
Relative path specification without query
If this function is selected, HTML-Format evaluates automatically the relative path for a graphic file
to be inserted with respect to the open HTML document. This is valuable if the directory hierarchy on
the web-server is identical to the path hierarchy on your development machine.
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