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Article #8Q-HTML: Text to HTML converter
From: Craig Cockburn
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 00:00
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This is to announce V1.10 of my utility Q-HTML, a 29K program which
converts plain text into HTML. Complete with both user interface and
command-line only operation.
This is the first shareware version. This version will continue to work
indefinitely (although the maximum size of file you can process after
31-July-97 is 1000 lines)
This is what 4 users have said about Q-HTML:
I just wanted to drop you a note to say thanks for making such an
excellent utility available. Q-HTML has given me the opportunity to
scrap that horrendously useless plug-in called Internet Assistant for
Word that I've been trying to use to auto-convert huge documents to
html.
When I first read your post I thought you were re-inventing the wheel,
but I think you've come up with the pneumatic tyre. Well done!
I tried it succesfully with a 792 kB text file under Win 95.
Many thanks Craig - a really nifty piece of software.
Downloaded Q-HTML the other day, and I have to admit it's the best
utility I've seen to convert text files to HTML. It's fast (even under
16-bit Windows) and the resulting pages require little or no editing.
It's saved me a lot of time converting a number of articles to HTML for
later posting at my Web page.
This small utility takes text files and inserts the appropriate markup
for the file to be viewed on the WWW. The following operations are
performed:
1) Insert head and body markers
2) Insert page title
3) Insert paragraph and line break markers where appropriate (3
algorithms)
4) Convert all mail addresses into followable mailto e-mail links
5) Convert all http:, gopher:, ftp: etc references into followable WWW
links
6) Convert news: references into followable newsgroup references
7) Date and time stamp your html page automatically.
8) Embedded <URL: ... > markers are also handled properly.
9) Process multiple files in one sweep.
The program will also split and cross reference structured files like
FAQs, allowing one version for both text and HTML to be maintained and
the HTML to be automatically generated.
The program is also part of the NACHOS package, awarded 5 Cows from
Tucows
Featured on the CD-ROM for What PC? March 97.
More information available at
http://www.scot.demon.co.uk/q-html.html
--
Craig Cockburn ("coburn"), Du\n E/ideann, Alba. (Edinburgh, Scotland)
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~craig/
E-mail: craig@scot.demon.co.uk (preferred) or craig@acm.org
Sgri\obh thugam 'sa Gha\idhlig ma 'se do thoil e.
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