Dear Gurus,
My question was: "Do you know of an HTML editor running under DU?"
As usual, I received tens of answers -too many for thanking nominatively
all of you. Thanks!
The answers are:
1) use vi or emacs, that's the editors for Gurus....
2) try WORDIA (Internet Assistant for WORD) freely available from the
Microsoft
server
3) The overwhelming consensus is: use asWedit
I downloaded asWedit (the OSF version). The best summary I can do is to
include the README file (see below). You'll know everything.
Thanks again,
Jean-Loup
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Welcome to...
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asWedit HTML and text editor Version 2.5
What ?
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asWedit is a comprehensive and easy to use HTML 2, HTML 3 and text
editor for X Window System and Motif. It offers three independent modes:
a plain text editing mode and two context-sensitive, validating modes
for authoring of HyperText Markup Language documents (HTML 2 and HTML 3)
as used on the Internet and enterprise networks.
HTML features
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* context-sensitive HTML 2x and HTML 3x modes; only tags valid in the
current context are available
o full support for all HTML 2 tags and attributes based on the RFC 1866
o full support for all HTML 3 tags and attributes based on the
HTML 3 Document Type Definition (DTD) as of 24 March 1995
* support in our HTML 2x and HTML 3x extended modes for the latest
IETF drafts and some other more stable proposals (new tables,
client-side image maps, form-based file upload and Java applets),
and the widely used Netscape specific elements, including Frames;
support based on our own DTD's that include all the extensions;
* creation of correct HTML 2x or HTML 3x documents (according to
the extended DTD's)
o support for different styles of editing: assistive tagging, cut and
paste, by hand and parse
o attribute editors
o dialogs for selecting relative and absolute URL's
o customizable colors for different HTML tags
* special link dialog allowing creation of hyperlinks and the
destination anchors in one step
* text to table and to list converters
* table of contents generator
* HTML tag flexible report tool
* ready to use and test Form examples
* color selection from a user definable list
* spell checking that skips HTML tags
o rich set of entities, including Latin 1, Greek and user-defined ones
o keyboard shortcuts for the most common HTML tags
o user definable, mode dependent, key bindings
o filters to convert between Latin 1 characters and their
entities (extendible)
o support for unlimited number of templates
* comprehensive context-sensitive, hypertext help with topics
on a selected tag and edited attribute (version related)
o on-line hints when importing and correcting legacy HTML documents
o preview mode that uses Netscape Navigator, NCSA Mosaic, Arena or Lynx
(interprocess communication is used for Netscape and Mosaic)
General features
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* international release (versions for 10 languages)
o modern graphical user interface (GUI)
o multiple editing windows
o pop-up menus for mouse-oriented editing and feature's quick access
o user customizable toolbars with fly-by hints for icons
* split window functionality
o comprehensive context sensitive and click-on hypertext on-line help
o multiple undo and redo of edit actions
o all standard editing features like: text Cut, Copy and Paste,
bookmarks, pair matching, search and replace, etc.
o commands to change case of letters, spell and sort
o formatting commands (move, indent, re-format etc.)
o user customizable filters and commands
o customization via the standard X11/Motif resources method
o easy localization to left-to-right languages (8-bit characters)
o special no HTML mode for quick start-up and plain text editing
(*) - means a completely new or dramatically improved feature in ver. 2.5
International information
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Localized resource files are available for the following languages:
English (default), Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish,
Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Commands and messages are localized for
each language but the on-line help is available only in English (U.S.).
Some localizations are incomplete though, especially in the HTML modes.
Who by ?
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AdvaSoft Ltd
30 Hatch Road, London SW16 4PN, England
Release date
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26 April 1996
Availability
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asWedit is available for free for students and staff in education and
charitable non-profit organizations, and for free evaluation by
individuals and commercial organizations. See the license for details.
asWedit is available in binary form by anonymous ftp and via http from:
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/www/asWedit/
http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/www/asWedit/
The software is mirrored in US on:
ftp://ftp.umbc.edu/pub/unix/www/asWedit/
and on other archives including the following:
ftp://sunsite.rediris.es/software/infosystems/www/asWedit/
ftp://ftp.ruf.uni-freiburg.de/pub/info/asWedit/
ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/www/asWedit/
Following platforms are supported (in OS alphabetic order):
file Id System OS
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rs6k.aix3.2.5 IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2.5
alpha.osf3 DEC Alpha Digital Unix/OSF1 V3.x
hp.hpux9 HP9000 700/800 HP-UX 9.x
sgi.irix5 SGI IRIX 5.x
i386.linux PC, i386 Linux 1.1.x (X11R5 req.)
i386.linux_dyna PC, i386 Linux 1.1.x (X11R5 + libXm req.)
i386.sco5 PC, i386 SCO Open Server 5
i386.sco PC, i386 SCO
sparc.solaris2.4 SUN Sparc SunOS 5.4
sparc.solaris2.3 SUN Sparc SunOS 5.3
sparc.sunos4 SUN Sparc SunOS 4.1.3
ultrix.4.4 DEC station Ultrix 4.4
NOTE: UnixWare users can use the binary-compatible "i386.sco" version,
while FreeBSD users - the "i386.linux" version under Linux emulation.
To obtain the binary distribution please download the compressed tar file
for your platform and then unpack it. For example for IRIX 5 download
the file asWedit-2.5-sgi.irix5.tar.Z. To unpack it you can use the
following:
zcat asWedit-2.5-sgi.irix5.tar.Z | tar xvf -
(the distribution will be placed into asWedit-2.5 directory).
If you want to use Emacs bindings get the following file as well:
emacs-mode-asWedit-2.5.tar.Z
If you want to use a localized version please download a resource file
from the i18n-resources directory appropriate for your language. For
example, to get the German resources please download the following file:
i18n-resources/AsWedit-2.5-de.tar.Z
License and installation
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When you obtain the software please read and accept the terms of the
License Agreement.
Please read the installation information contained in the INSTALL file.
More information
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More information, including details about ASWedit - the commercial
version of asWedit - is available on the AdvaSoft Web site:
http://www.advasoft.com
Commercial information about ASWedit can also be requested by sending
E-mail to: info_at_advasoft.com
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Andrzej Stochniol
as_at_advasoft.com
Received on Thu Jun 06 1996 - 18:48:09 NZST