Shell Scripts and HTMLDOC

[Chipp Walters]

Pierre,

Interesting you mention HTMLDOC...I'm in the middle of adding it's feature
set to Hemingway. I'll also build a standalone app which I'll distribute for
free. It's pretty much exactly like the GUI Windows version of HTMLDOC, but
it should be able to run on OSX and Linux as well (anyone out there like to
help me convert it to OSX???)

btw -- a couple of functions I've found handy when doing shell scripts...

function fixSpacesInPath pPath
  --this function puts quotes around folders with spaces in them
  --note should already be in the form of "C:/one thing/two thing"
  set itemDel to "\"
  put empty into tReturnPath
  repeat for each item i in pPath
    put i into tVar
    if tVar contains space then
      put quote & tVar & quote into tVar
    end if
    put tVar & "\" after tReturnPath
  end repeat
  delete last char of tReturnPath
  return tReturnPath
end fixSpacesInPath

function GetShortPathName pPath
  --this one converts the path to the 8.3 format
  --note should already be in the form of "C:/one thing/two thing"
  set itemDel to "/"
  put empty into tReturnPath
  repeat for each item i in pPath
    put i into tVar
    if tVar contains space or the length of tVar > 8 then
      replace space with emtpy in tVar
      put char 1 to min(the length of tVar,6) of tVar into tVar
      put "~1" after tVar
    end if
    put tVar & "\" after tReturnPath
  end repeat
  delete last char of tReturnPath
  return tReturnPath
end GetShortPathName

best,

Chipp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Pierre Sahores
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 5:33 PM
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: OT PDF's
>
>
> Michael Crawford a écrit :
> >
> > Just to add my two cents.
> >
> > I like PDF's. I really do. Unfortunately PDF's are just like any
> > other digital document some of them are good and some of them are
> > bad. I really think that it depends entirely on how the PDF is made.
> > Just as Word makes a bad job of document creation (cf page layout
> > programs like Indesign) Word makes a bad job of PDF's. Making "good"
> > PDF's actually takes a little bit of effort and you need to know what
> > you are doing. Unfortunately many people never get the hang of this
> > including some who should know better. For example I downloaded a PDF
> > from Adobe's site the other day that was around 450 K for a two page,
> > text only document! Adobe should be doing better than that.
> >
> > Michael
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> Hello There,
>
> For the ones searching about a way to convert/publish dinamic .html
> pages as .pdf outputs, have an eye to "htmldoc" at
> <http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/>.
> --
> Cordialement, Pierre Sahores
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