W3 page

Chris van Gorp's W3 html enhancer

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See also Usage, W3 keywords, W3 example

The W3 program is made for people who use a standard text editor to make their html pages.

It offers you :

Edit 1 text file and let W3 generated the seperate .html files,

automatic make up the page header and footer,

generate or :

a link list of all generated .html pages at the bottom of each page,
a table of contents provided you supply level information in the source file

generate a INDEX page, using the W3 INDEX keyword,

generate a HREF test page, so you have can manually test all the HREFs used in your pages,

add an e-mail button at top or bottom of each page,

print document info at the top or bottom of each page :

Document title, Pagetitle,
Source file for W3,
Creation date-time of the .html page,
Document version.

format raw text ("abc" to "<P>abc</P>") (tag P)ABC(end tag P),

resolve internal page references based on page titles.

generate a FTP script file so you can easily upload the new pages.

generate a MSDOS BAT file RENAMER.BAT in the output directory to rename all .htm files to .html extension.

W3 Usage

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C:\HTML>w3

C:\HTML>w3
W3 V1.2 (c) Chris van Gorp
file C:\USR\BIN\W3.EXE
  link datum is  28 12 1996 19:26:40
Usage :    W3 source-file output-path output-prefix option(s)
 options are S : Simple layout pagelinks at top of page
 options are s : Simple layout pagelinks at bottom of page
 options are F : Frames layout pagelinks at top of page
 options are f : Frames layout pagelinks at bottom of page
 options are B : Booklike layout pagelinks at top of page
 options are b : Booklike layout pagelinks at bottom of page
 options are E : Email with emailgif
 options are e : Email without emailgif, just text "Email to : "
 options are V : (Verbose) show date-time and file name on html page at top of page
 options are v : (Verbose) show date-time and file name on html page at bottom of page
 example : W3 chris.txt c:\tmp\ cvg_ S
 if you supply a file "ftp.ini" in the current directory,
 an new file ftp.cmd is made wich contains all the ftp commands
 from ftp.ini and for each file created by W3 a put filename
 command.
 The ftp.cmd file is ended with the close command

 For further documentation see web page
 http://www.worldaccess.nl/~cvangorp

C:\HTML>

 W3 Keywords

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DOCTITLE title of the document,

DOCVERSION version of the document,

AUTHOR author of the document,

PAGETITLE [LEVEL level] title of a page (acts as page break),The level indicates Chapter/Paragraph level

PAGEFOOTER additional text placed at end of each page,

EMAIL email address to be placed at bottom of each page,

EMAILNAME name of the person,

EMAILGIF a gif file to display with email address,

SET set a variable,

VAR substitute a variable (set with SET) with it is contents,

REF internal page reference based upon pagetitles,

INDEX text to be put on index page,

FORMAT start with simple formatting ,

ENDFORMAT end simple formatting .

All the keywords are entered using an unique html comment sequence :

so they don't show up if you view your source file with an HTLM viewer

 Example

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In this document I use the following W3 keywords
<!-- W3:DOCTITLE Chris van Gorp's Homepages -->
<!-- W3:AUTHOR Chris van Gorp -->
<!-- W3:DOCVERSION V1.4 -->
<!-- W3:PAGETITLE first page -->
<!-- W3:PAGEFOOTER -->
<!-- W3:PAGEFILE -->
<!-- W3:EMAIL cvangorp@worldaccess.nl?subject=Remark on webpages -->
<!-- W3:EMAILNAME Chris van Gorp -->
<!-- W3:EMAILGIF bemail.gif -->
<!-- W3:SET myvar MyValue -->
<!-- W3:VAR myvar -->

Last edited Friday, December 28, 2001 17:23:36 PM