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SoftQuad announces WYSIWYG HTML Editor available for FTP

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Ian Darwin

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Jun 1, 1994, 10:07:14 PM6/1/94

SoftQuad is releasing two WWW/HTML editors:
SoftQuad HoTMetaL - freely available today by FTP -
our gift to the WWW community.
SoftQuad HoTMetaL Pro - available this month for purchase.

There is also (in conjunction with Avalanche Development Company)
a HoTMetaL add-on for conversion from popular desktop word
processing packages like Microsoft Word and WordPerfect into HTML.

HoTMetaL simplifies HTML authoring with pick lists for the markup codes
and cut-and-paste for the hypertext links. It includes the following
HTML-specific features: knowledge of the HTML DTD and validation of
documents; viewing of images; a Preview facility for launching Mosaic
and other Web browsers; the ability to copy and paste hypertext links
(Universal Resource Locators -- URLs) into the document; and a Publish
feature that automatically changes hypertext links from local file
references to global URLs.

SoftQuad HoTMetaL is available from many of the same Internet sites and
electronic bulletin boards as Mosaic, including NCSA, where the URL is:
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/contrib/SoftQuad/sqhotmetal-1.0.tar.gz

The first release is for Sun Motif, with a Microsoft Windows version
available within a week. Other operating environments will follow.

SoftQuad HoTMetaL PRO is a fully supported commercial version with
additional functionality like WYSIWYG editing of complex tables and
more comprehensive support for authoring, such as user-defined macros
and long or short sets of menus. It will be available from SoftQuad and
its resellers by the end of June 1994 on Sun Motif and Microsoft
Windows for a list price of US$195.00 with a 90 day promotional price
of US$149.00.

HoTMetaL is named in honor of the mechanical devices which melted lead
to make type for printing.

Please email inquiries to "hotm...@sq.com", not to me.

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