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NAME
htxp - a preprocessor for HTML files
SYNOPSIS
magigxp [help + macro defs] [source doc] > [html output]
and
hhelp [help file]
DESCRIPTION
Htxp is a preprocessor that provides time-saving features for writing
HTML files: by allowing the use of user-specified abbreviations, and
built-in and user-definable macros.
The program is a filter that generates a regular HTML file from a raw
source file which is essentially an HTML file with abbreviations and
macros replacing long strings. There is built-in shorthand for the
most common HTML tags, and a user can add abbreviations and macros
(either in external files or in-line).
Regular HTML tags can still be used, so that none of the macros are
mandatory. You just use as many macros or abbreviations as you can
remember. This also allows you to use "htxp" to modify an existing
HTML file.
ABBREVIATONS
Here are some brief explanations of the "htxp" commands:
o Dot commands (".ht", ".t", etc.) are built-in shorthand for
common HTML tags. They are like NROFF commands, and must be
the first nonwhite character in a line.
o Two abbreviation lists are used to allow for more abbreviations.
";h", ";dc", etc. are user-defined abbreviations you make up
yourself and store in a file called "html.ab1"
"$em" is from a second similar list stored in "html.ab2"
o Additional abbreviations can be also be defined "dynamically"
and added to the second list using the command ".ab ...".
o "]h", "]H", etc. are user-defined macros, stored in a file
"html.ucm". Here we use them to define a header "environment".
Similarly, "]rm" and "]Rm" give a remark "environment"
for writing "REMARKS".
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Such macros can also be added dynamically in the document.
o The symbols ";", "$", and "]" for requesting abbreviations
and macros are changeable.
o See the on-line HTML manual for a fuller discussion of creating
abbreviations and macros.
AUTHOR
Man Kam Kwong: kwong@mcs.anl.gov
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/home/kwong
Mathematics and Computer Science
Argonne National Laboratory
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