Contents

• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Problems with HTML
  • 1.2 Common tasks for webmasters
  • 1.3 Approach to the problem
  • 1.4 Notations used
  • 1.5 Other HTML preprocessors
  • 1.6 Where to obtain HTML PLAIN
• 2. Specification of the HTML extension
  • 2.1 Customized HTML tags
  • 2.2 Templates
  • 2.3 Variables
  • 2.4 The dictionary
  • 2.5 Macros
  • 2.6 Other replacements
  • 2.7 ``Magic'' tags
  • 2.8 Preprocessor directives
• 3. Parsing the documents
  • 3.1 Why Perl?
  • 3.2 Perl modules used
  • 3.3 Parsing the template and variables
  • 3.4 The document parser
  • 3.5 Maintaining the file table
  • 3.6 Checking for dependencies
  • 3.7 Converting existing pages
• 4. The graphical user interface
  • 4.1 Tcl/Tk
  • 4.2 Tcl/Tk modules used
  • 4.3 The configuration editor
  • 4.4 The variable editor
  • 4.5 The template editor
  • 4.6 The demo program
  • 4.7 Testing
• 5. Example and test pages
  • 5.1 Using the programs
  • 5.2 An example configuration
  • 5.3 An example page
  • 5.4 Writing the pages
  • 5.5 Including latex2html output
  • 5.6 Uploading
  • 5.7 Converting existing HTML pages
  • 5.8 Managing multiple sites
• 6. Summary and conclusions
  • 6.1 Achievements
  • 6.2 Remaining problems
  • 6.3 Future enhancements
• 7. Test results
  • 7.1 Example page
  • 7.2 Other test pages
• 8. Changelogs
  • 8.1 Perl programs
  • 8.2 Tcl/Tk programs
• 9. Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Index