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ANNOUNCE: shtmlview 1.0.0
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D Groth
Mar 23, 2022, 2:37:57 AM3/23/22
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shtmlview is a Tcl only snit megawidget to display HTML pages with support for most HTML 3.2 tags and Markdown files. It should be used for local HTML and Markdown files only for instance to display help pages within a Tk application. It does not support stylesheets, not web forms and not http(s) addresses. As it is a Tcl only extension it does not require any compilation. It is based on old code from Stephen Uhler, Clif Flynt and Robert Heller.
* Project page: hhttps://github.com/mittelmark/shtmlview
* Download: https://github.com/mittelmark/shtmlview/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.0.zip
* Manual: http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/mittelmark/shtmlview/blob/master/shtmlview/shtmlview.html
* Wikipage: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/shtmlview
Version 1.0.0 adds support for Markdown documents (using tcllibs Markdown library), base64 encoded inline images, support for jpeg (using img::jpeg) and svg images (using svgconvert or terminal applications rsvg-convert or cairosvg), support for the HTML 3.2 tags sub, sup, small, big, div (the latter can be used for styling). The rendering speed was as well improved, but obviously it is much slower than the binary counterparts tkhtml and tkhtml3. The project has now it's own Github page to allow tagging and real versioning.
Thanks to aplsimple and pepdiz for bug reports and suggestions. Without feedback - no progress!
D Groth
* Project page: hhttps://github.com/mittelmark/shtmlview
* Download: https://github.com/mittelmark/shtmlview/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.0.zip
* Manual: http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/mittelmark/shtmlview/blob/master/shtmlview/shtmlview.html
* Wikipage: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/shtmlview
Version 1.0.0 adds support for Markdown documents (using tcllibs Markdown library), base64 encoded inline images, support for jpeg (using img::jpeg) and svg images (using svgconvert or terminal applications rsvg-convert or cairosvg), support for the HTML 3.2 tags sub, sup, small, big, div (the latter can be used for styling). The rendering speed was as well improved, but obviously it is much slower than the binary counterparts tkhtml and tkhtml3. The project has now it's own Github page to allow tagging and real versioning.
Thanks to aplsimple and pepdiz for bug reports and suggestions. Without feedback - no progress!
D Groth
Gerry
Mar 29, 2022, 10:41:53 AM3/29/22
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Your package looks interesting. One of these long spring evenings
I may look into it to see how hard it would be to have it use
entries in an SQLite database rather than files.
Gerry Snyder
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I may look into it to see how hard it would be to have it use
entries in an SQLite database rather than files.
Gerry Snyder
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Bezoar
Apr 12, 2022, 9:55:41 AM4/12/22
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D Groth
Apr 22, 2022, 12:31:24 AM4/22/22
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Dear Gerry and Bezoar,
In the current Github code I implemented your suggestion so that you can render directly HTML or Markdown strings.
The method is: `pathName render text ?ext?`
if html tags are present it will be rendered as HTML. If there are no tags at the beginning per default Markdown is assumed. The format can be enforced as well by providing the default file extension.
Have a look at the manual page. I am only in doubt currently how to handle links if there are no files ... I think there should be a user defined function to handle links to non-existing files. I'm open here for suggestions.
https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/mittelmark/shtmlview/blob/master/shtmlview/shtmlview.html#section4
The current Git source code can be downloaded here:
https://downgit.github.io/#/home?url=https://github.com/mittelmark/shtmlview/tree/main/shtmlview
Please note that the script was reorganized together with akupries to allow inclusion into tklib. shtmlview is as well there in the current fossil trunk (slighly behind my github code).
Furthermore a plugin structure was added to allow rendering of other file formats which can be translated into HTML. As an example Tcl's doctools format was already added. So you can render now Tcl doctools manual pages like this: `tclsh shtmlview.tcl shtmlview.man`
Detlef
In the current Github code I implemented your suggestion so that you can render directly HTML or Markdown strings.
The method is: `pathName render text ?ext?`
if html tags are present it will be rendered as HTML. If there are no tags at the beginning per default Markdown is assumed. The format can be enforced as well by providing the default file extension.
Have a look at the manual page. I am only in doubt currently how to handle links if there are no files ... I think there should be a user defined function to handle links to non-existing files. I'm open here for suggestions.
https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/mittelmark/shtmlview/blob/master/shtmlview/shtmlview.html#section4
The current Git source code can be downloaded here:
https://downgit.github.io/#/home?url=https://github.com/mittelmark/shtmlview/tree/main/shtmlview
Please note that the script was reorganized together with akupries to allow inclusion into tklib. shtmlview is as well there in the current fossil trunk (slighly behind my github code).
Furthermore a plugin structure was added to allow rendering of other file formats which can be translated into HTML. As an example Tcl's doctools format was already added. So you can render now Tcl doctools manual pages like this: `tclsh shtmlview.tcl shtmlview.man`
Detlef
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