Re: [StrongED] StrongED Instructions

[Gavin Wraith <gavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <56aa72d046Lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>
          "Richard Torrens (lists)" <Lists@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> StrongHelp has problems - many (including me!) don't like it.

I have found StrongHelp flakey at times. Also insufficient control
over formatting. Why no right margins?

> Which leaves html. Like StrongeHelp that also has no inherent structure.

Pure html is very rare to encounter these days. You cannot talk of html
without talk of CSS. CSS gives very flexible control over appearance.
Even with NetSurf, which has incomplete understanding of CSS, you can
still make nice looking pages.

If we are talking about a document format that is just for reading on
RISC OS machines with NetSurf then there is a cunning trick that seems to
have been overlooked. All that is required is for the authors of these
html files to include in the header section the line:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="file:///<ro$style>" type="text/css" />

This will permit the person browsing the html document, wherever it is
hosted, to personalize its appearance. All he has to do is set the system
variable ro$style to the pathname of a CSS file on his own computer.
This works - I have checked it. Of course there could be a default CSS
file on the author's website, if he wants.

I use my own program, Weave (http://www.wra1th.plus.com/zip/weave.zip ,
to make web pages. In its most recent incarnation it has good
integration with CSS. It might make things easier to have an agreed
set of names for style classes. See Chris Terran's excellent StrongHelp
manual CSS1 from 2006. It would be nice to have an updated version of
this that incorporates those extra CSS features that NetSurf has gained
since then.

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Gavin Wraith (gavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Home page: http://www.wra1th.plus.com/

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