Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
From: muenkel@daedalus.tnt.uni-hannover.de (Heiko Muenkel)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: New Version of the HTML Package
Message-ID: <1994Mar18.180841.16874@cs.cornell.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 18:08:41 GMT
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)

Sorry, the file hm--date.el is missing in the package 
hm--html-menus-4.0.tar.gz. Therefore I've put a new version (4.1) on the ftp
servers (Look at the incoming directories, if the package isn't in the right
place now).

Heiko

In article <MUENKEL.94Mar15161907@daedalus.tnt.uni-hannover.de> muenkel@daedalus.tnt.uni-hannover.de (Heiko Muenkel) writes:
>Hello,
>
>I've written a new version (4.0) of my html package for the Lucid Emacs 
>(lemacs) and the GNU Emacs 19. It is based on the html-mode from Marc
>Andreessen. 
>
>With this package it is very easy to write html pages for the World Wide 
>Web (WWW). Eg: In most cases the user gets help to construct a specific 
>link by examples or by a completition list with possible input strings.
>
>One of the main changes in this version is the full support of the GNU 
>Emacs 19. Look at the README file for more descriptions.
>
>The name of the package is
>	hm--html-menus-4.0.tar.gz
>
>You can find it on the following ftp server:
>	info.cern.ch in /pub/www/contrib
>	sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/apps/editors/emacs/
>	ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de in /pub/unix/editors/lemacs/contrib
>
>The package has a lot of functions for HTML+ and for special features
>of the NCSA http daemons like forms and server side include commands.
>
>It provides functions to insert the following stuff in html-pages:
>1. Anchors:
>	html link, info link, gopher link, file link;
>	ftp link, news link, mail link, wais (direct) link,
>	wais (gateway) link;
>	proggate link, local proggate link, general link;
>	link target;
>2. Frame elements:
>	full html frame with html, head, body, title, header and signature
>	elements or only the single elements;
>	html 'created'- and 'changed'- comments;  
>	the current date in the title; 
>3. Structure elements:
>	menu or list item, menu, unordered list, ordered list, directory list;
>	description list, description title, description entry;
>	new paragraph, new line, horizontal rule;
>4. for preformatted text:
>	without links, with links, blockquote, listing;
>5. formatting:
>	bold, italic, underline, typewriter,
>	emphasized, strong, code, sample, keyboard, variable, definition,
>	citation, html comment;
>6. include:
>	top aligned image, middle aligned image, bottom aligned image;
>	server side include commands for files, commands and commands
>	with isindex parameter;
>7. forms:
>	form;
>	text, password and isindex fields; 
>	checkbox, radio, reset, image and submit buttons;
>	option menus, scrolled lists and option entries;
>	textarea;
>
>If it makes sense, the functions worked also on selected regions.
>I've used the same menu items and the same keystrokes. Therefore, you
>don't need to learn different menus or keys for similar functions.
>
>You can choose the popup menus between an expert menu, an novice menu and
>the menu from Marc Andreessen interactively.
>
>With the pulldown menu, you can do the following things:
>- select the pulldown menu
>- change the highlighting of html tags
>- remove numeric names
>- quotify hrefs
>- reload the config files
>- load html templates from a template directory (two templates are included
>  in the package); templates written in a special template language are
>  expanded automatically;
>- preview html documents with the xmosaic
>- preview html documents with the w3 package for the lemacs and emacs
>
>You can configure the html mode with a special configuration file for
>your site and with another file specific for a user.
>
>The html specification is under development and therefore this
>package is also under development. So, if you have any ideas to
>extend the package, feel free to email them to muenkel@tnt.uni-hannover.de.
>
>
>Heiko
