HTML Editor for the Macintosh

Copyright 1996, Rick Giles
 
 

Note: This documentation is for version 1.1.2. To download the latest version, click here.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Requirements
  • Features
  • Using HTML Editor
  • Author
  • Shareware
  • Acknowledgements

    • Introduction

    HTML Editor is a semi-WYSIWYG editor for an HTML document. HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a coding system for specifying the format of a text document, and for creating hypertext links between a document and other documents that accessible on the same computer or through the World Wide Web (WWW). For more information on HTML, click here.

    The location of a document that is linked to another is specified with a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). For more information on URLs, click here.

    Instructional video tapes on creating Web pages are available from Rich Enderton and Educational Reform Group.

    Requirements

    HTML Editor requires:
     
     
  • a Macintosh SE/30, Mac II, or other Macintosh with a 68020-compatible CPU.
  • System 7 or higher.
  • at least 2.7 Megabytes RAM. A larger partition may be needed if you are editing large documents or are using greater than 16 bit color (millions of colors in the Monitors Control Panel).
  • Installation of Internet Config for preferences. To install Internet Config, run the Internet Configuration application that is distributed with HTML Editor.

    • Features

    The following features are supported by HTML Editor:
  • simple text editing.
  • edit text of size > 32K.
  • insertion of common HTML 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and Netscape tags through button clicks, menu selections, and key strokes.
  • styled text to indicate styles a browser may use when viewing a document. These styles can be edited.
  • undo and redo of basic tag insertion.
  • editable palette of user tags.
  • single key strokes for insertion of HTML escape codes for composed characters.
  • find and replace commands for text editing.
  • edit list of URLs from the current document.
  • setting of a root directory for the URL of a local file.
  • standard file dialog for constructing the URL of a local file.
  • switch to a browser such as Netscape, Mosaic or MacWeb with the click of a button. Switching to a browser will open a browse window for the current document.
  • hide tags for a quick document preview.
  • restyle complete document.
  • automatic styling of documents from other applications.
  • conversion of UNIX and DOS text files to Macintosh text.
  • conversion of non-ASCII characters from a text file or the clipboard to HTML escape codes for composed characters.
  • printing.
  • support for Internet Config Preferences.
  • support for Menu Sharing.
  • command-click launch of selected URL.

    • Using HTML Editor

    In addition to the usual functionality of a simple text editor, HTML Editor provides functions for working with HTML tags in a text document.

     The toolbar of each document window has popup menus and buttons for tagging selected text, switching to Mosaic, restyling the document, and hiding all tags for a preview of the document.

    Tags

    Selected text can be tagged by choosing a tag from a popup menu or clicking a tag button from the toolbar.

    Popup Menus

    The Heading popup menu provides the six standard HTML Heading tags. Tag a list by chosing a Definition list, Directory list, Menu list, or Unordered list from the List popup menu.

    Line Break

    To add a line break tag to the document, click the Line Break button .
     
     

    Paragraph Break

    To add a paragraph break tag to the document, click the Paragraph Break button .
     
     

    Styles

    To tag the selected text as bold, italics, or underline, click the appropriate Style button.
     
     

    Internal Link

    To construct an internal hypertext link to a named target in the current document, click the Internal Link button.

     The Document Targets list contains the names of all targets in the document. Click on a target in the list to enter it in the Target edit text, or type in the name of a target.

    External Link

    To construct an external hypertext link to another file, click the External Link button.

     Choose the hypertext scheme for the link, and the location, or path of the file. The path to a file may be complete, or relative path that you specify in the Preferences dialog.

    Target

    To give a target name to the selected text, click the Target button and enter the name of the target.
     
     

    Image

    Insert the HTML tag for an in-line image by clicking the Image button.


     
     

    Form

    Add a Form to your document by clicking the Form button.

     Add elements such a input boxes and output boxes to the form by first defining the form's action and URL, and then inserting the tags from the Form submenu of the Tags menu.

    Table

    Add a table to your document by clicking the Table button.

     Add cells to the table by first defining the table from the table dialog, and then typing in the cell contents in the document.

    Browser

    To preview your document with the browser of your choice, click the Browser button. Use Internet Config to specify your browser
     
     

    Restyle

    Restyling a document applies the tags that are currently in the documents and updates the display of the document. To restyle the document, click the Restyle button.

    Hide/Show Tags

    To preview the document without tags, click the Hide Tags button. When the tags are hidden, you can select and copy text, but you cannot edit the text. To return to editing, click the Show Tags button.
     
     

    Preferences

    To specify a root directory, or to select the type of path name for a local file URL, choose Preferences... from the Edit menu.

     To specify the root directory, click the Select... button and open a file in the root directory from the standard file dialog. (Note the the file isn't actually opened).

     The path name to a file may contain Macintosh characters that are not recognizable by certain browsers. To construct path names that conforms to the ISO standard click on the ISO Path Name radio button. To construct path names that are recognized by Macintosh browsers, but may not be recognized by other browsers, click on the Macintosh Path Name radio button.
     
     

    Styles

    Define the font, text face, size and color for component text by chosing Styles... from the Edit menu.

    Select a tag from the popup menu of the dialog, and specify the font, text face, size and color by chosing from the Edit menu.
     
     

    Internet Configuration

    HTML Editor is "Internet Config aware", and uses several preferences specified by your Internet Configuration.
  • The browser used by HTML Editor is the http helper of your Internet Configuration.
  • The Insert menu lists preference strings that are specified by Internet Configuration.
  • Command-clicking on a URL in your document launches the helper application of Internet Configuration.
    • To install your brower as the Internet Config http helper:
  • Launch Internet Config.
  • Click the Helpers button.
  • Scroll to the http line and double click on http.
  • Set your browser as the helper (DO NOT set HTML Editor as the helper).
  • Quit Internet Config, saving your changes.
    • To download the latest version of Internet Configuration, click here.

    Search

    To find a text string or replace it with another, chose from the Search menu. The search may wrap around to the beginning of the document, it may be for a whole word, and it may be case sensitive. More general search strings can be defined by using a grep regular expression.
     
     

    URLs

    To extract and edit a list of the URLs in the current document, chose Edit from the URLs menu. To edit a new list of URLs, choose New from the URLs menu.

     To sort the list of Title/URLs by Title, click the Sort button. To delete a Title/URL from the table, click on the Title/URL in the table and click the Delete button. To edit a Title and URL, click on the Title/URL in the table, use the edit text boxes to edit these items, and click the Replace button. To add a new Title/URL to the table, use the edit text boxes to edit their values, and click the Add button. To create a new document with the tags for a URL list, chose Export from the URLs menu.
     
     

    User Tags

    User tags are created and added to the current document by chosing User Tags from the Windows menu.

     To create a new user tag, click the Add button of the User Tags palette. To delete the selected tag, click the Delete button. To insert a user tag into the current document, click the tag in the User Tags palette.

     To edit the text of an existing tag, command-click the tag. To change the position of a tag in the list, option-click the tag and drag it to a new position.
     
     

    Keyboarding

    To enter HTML escape codes for composed characters, type the normal keys for the composed character. For example, typing option-c enters ç into the document.

     Command-clicking on a URL launches the Internet Configuration helper for the URL.

    Author

    HTML Editor is written by Rick Giles.

    Shareware

    HTML Editor version 1.1.2 is shareware. Registered users will receive free electronic updates of version 1. To register, please send $25 to

     Rick Giles
    Box 207, Acadia University
    Wolfville, N. S.
    B0P 1X0
    CANADA

    Acknowledgements

    Many people contributed to the development of HTML Editor through testing, and offering constructive suggestions. Thanks to the people at Prograph International, all the beta testers, and to Stephane Bortzmeyer, Dave Cartwright, Walter Clinton, James Cook, Robert Currie, Thomas Diessel, Wendy Farkas, Ramon Felciano, Jim Hanlon, Jim Harrison, Joshua Jewell, Terry Kilshaw, Roger Larsen, Heikki Lehvaslaiho, Susan Martin, Max Metral, Angus McIntyre, Bill Milheim, Leif Erik Otteraa, William S. Parks, Marco Piovanelli, Charles Phillips, Bill Richardson, Dave Shepherd, Frank Simmons, Aleks Totic, David Walker, Michael Will, Andy J. Williams, Hal Wine, and to others.


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