From ray@Celestial.COM Tue Sep 28 15:01:47 EDT 1993
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From: ray@Celestial.COM (Ray Jones)
Subject: Re: Another set of handy HTML macros - for MS-D
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 23:45:33 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Sep18.234533.5209@Celestial.COM>
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In <SHEM.93Sep17155656@syy.oulu.fi> shem@syy.oulu.fi (Janne Himanka) writes:

>>>>>> On Fri, 17 Sep 1993 12:23:33 GMT, pflynn@curia.ucc.ie (Peter Flynn) said:

>    Peter> I just mailed Marc to ask what needs doing to make
>    Peter> html-mode (and indeed someone could do this for any other
>    Peter> editor) _surround_ some existing text with a tag, rather
>    Peter> than insert null tags. I'm thinking of the process of
>    Peter> editing existing ASCII documents where you mark start and
>    Peter> end of a chunk of text and want it surrounded with a tag.

>I've done this in my richtext composer for FSF Emacs 19,
>rtf-compose.el. First you mark a region, give a command, which will
>result in the region being showed in bold, italics or underlined.
>Then, when you exit the mode (or earlier, at will) the bold etc. faces
>will be converted to corresponding SGML tags. rtf-compose works with
>html-mode too, as it's a minor mode. 

I am using VI editor on a UNIX machine and have created a .exrc file that I
find easy to use for converting text to HTML.
-------.exrc file----------
abbr ul <ul>
abbr li <li>
abbr pre <pre>
map #1 I<H1>^[A</H1>^[
map #2 I<H2>^[A</H2>^[
map #3 I<H3>^[ea</H3>^[
map #4 i<A href="XX"><B>^[ea</B></A>^[FXbcw
map #5 i<B>^[ea</B>^[
map #6 i<I>^[ea</I>^[
map #7 i<kbd>^[ea</kbd>^[
map #8 I<title>^[A</title>^[
map #9 a<P>^[
~
------------end-----------
The abbr's are abbrevations for the list tags and preformated text.
Functions Keys are:
F1=Heading level 1, inserts <H1> at begining of line and </H1> at end of line
F2=Heading level 2, inserts <H2> at begining of line and </H2> at end of line
F3=Heading level 3, inserts <H3> at begining of line and </H3> at end of line
F4= place cursro on word being bolded for cross ref, insert href, bold word
go back to XX and do change word command.
F5= embold word
F6= italisize word
F7= place kbd tag around word
F8= place title tag around line of text
F9= append Paragrah tag after cursor
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