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Your text files could be be in .html
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Your text files could be be in .html
- From: Jari Aalto <jaalto at tre dot tele dot nokia dot fi>
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 13:02:26 -0400
- Reply-to: <jari dot aalto at poboxes dot com> (pgp preferred ssjaaa at uta dot fi | pgp -fka)
Hi,
I just Browsed the great http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/
and looked into the ftp directories where you have some
text files.
I'm and Emacs elisp programmer and I have developed a simple
text file format which I call 'Technical text' (TF). I
Just though to drop you a note if you're interested in keeping
your text documentation in that format.
ftp://cs.uta.fi/pub/ssjaaa/tiny-docs.html#378
The benefits:
o You write text file as usual, Only indent it a bit
differently (TAB set to 4)
o There is special Emacs minor mode to help you: format
paragraphs, create TOC automatically etc.
o You can feed the file to t2html.pls Perl4 script
that turns the apge into identical .html page.
All links are automatically made clickable, link
verification feature is coming real soon
In short: With few (2 minute) work, you can convert any .txt
file into .html. And you don't need html editor for that.
As an example, see my web pages that are created from plain text
files.
ftp://cs.uta.fi/pub/ssjaaa/tiny-tools.tar.gz -- Whole kit
ftp://cs.uta.fi/pub/ssjaaa/t2html.pls -- Perl script
"What's Technical format's layout like?". Well, you just
look at in this mail message. Nothing special, just indentation.
Cheers!
jari
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