[Oberon] Re: bug in HTML.Compile

[Peter Easthope]

Chris & others,

cg> Since you have invested some labour on using/testing HTML.Tool ,
how about passing on your experience ?

Certainly.

cg> HTML.Compile *  does what ....?

Translates a text to an HTML text.

cg> A sample data (input) file is: .....?

TestHTML.Text

cg> What is TestHTML.Text   ?

Mark it, apply HTML.Compile and you will get a file named 
TestHTML.html.  The target file name is the first word in 
the file.

In the input, color of text has significance; header information 
is in red, links are in blue.  It is explained in TestHTML.* and 
also in HTML.Mod.  

Attributing semantic significance to color of text is a departure 
from the Pascal/Modula/Oberon tradition of associating 
semantics with a strictly defined syntax ... but it works.
The Web page cited in the signature of this message was 
created this way.

A more general means of creating an HTML text is to specify
the document in TeX or LaTeX and to apply a TeXtoHTML
translator.  I've never tried this and do not know how links 
are specified in TeX.  Perhaps another reader can tell us this.
To my knowledge, TeXtoHTML is not yet implemented in 
Oberon.

Regards,       Peter E.

Peter Lyall Easthope   48.7693d N, 123.3053d W, 30 m
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