asWedit 3.0 - HTML & text editor for X/Motif
Andrzej Stochniol
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asWedit HTML and text editor Version 3.0
What ?
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asWedit is a comprehensive and easy to use HTML and text editor for
X Window System and Motif. It offers three independent modes:
a plain text editing mode and two context-sensitive, validating modes
for authoring of HyperText Markup Language documents as used on the
Internet and intranets.
Who by ?
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AdvaSoft Ltd
<URL:http://www.advasoft.com>
Release date
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23 October 1996
Availability
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asWedit is available for free for students and staff in education and
charitable non-profit organizations (non-commercial usage only), and for
free evaluation by individuals and commercial organizations. See the
license for details.
asWedit is available in binary form by anonymous ftp and via http from:
<URL:ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/www/asWedit/>
<URL:http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/www/asWedit/>
The software is mirrored in US on:
<URL:ftp://ftp.umbc.edu/pub/unix/www/asWedit/>
and on other archives including the following:
<URL:ftp://ftp.ruf.uni-freiburg.de/pub/info/asWedit/>
<URL:ftp://sun.rediris.es/mirror/infosystems/WWW/asWedit/>
<URL:ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/www/asWedit/>
<URL:ftp://ftp.edelweb.fr/pub/asWedit/>
Following platforms are supported (in OS alphabetic order):
file Id System OS
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rs6k.aix3.2.5 IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2.5
alpha.osf3 DEC Alpha Digital Unix/OSF1 V3.x
hp.hpux9 HP9000 700/800 HP-UX 9.x
sgi.irix5 SGI IRIX 5.x
i386.linux PC, i386 Linux 1.2.x (ELF)
i386.linux_dyna PC, i386 Linux 1.2.x (libXm v.2 req.)
i386.sco5 PC, i386 SCO Open Server 5
i386.sco PC, i386 SCO
sparc.solaris2.4 SUN Sparc SunOS 5.4
sparc.solaris2.3 SUN Sparc SunOS 5.3
sparc.sunos4 SUN Sparc SunOS 4.1.3
NOTE: UnixWare users can use the binary-compatible "i386.sco" version.
To obtain the binary distribution please download the gzip-compressed
tar file for your platform and then unpack it. For example for IRIX 5
download the file asWedit-3.0-sgi.irix5.tar.gz. To unpack it you can use
the following:
gzip -dc asWedit-3.0-sgi.irix5.tar.gz | tar xvf -
(the distribution will be placed into asWedit-3.0 directory).
If you want to use Emacs bindings get the following file as well:
emacs-mode-asWedit-3.0.tar.gz
If you want to use a localized version please download a resource file
from the i18n-resources directory appropriate for your language. For
example, to get the German resources please download the following file:
i18n-resources/AsWedit-3.0-de.tar.gz
License and installation
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When you obtain the software please read and accept the terms of the
License Agreement.
Please read the installation information contained in the INSTALL file.
Specification (long)
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(*) - means a completely new or dramatically improved feature in ver.
3.0
HTML features
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* context-sensitive HTML 3.2x extended and HTML 3.2X experimental
modes;
only tags valid in the current context are available
* full support for all HTML tags and attributes based on the HTML 3.2
specification by W3C but modified and extended by us with the widely
used extensions (including Frames)
* support for the full table model as in RFC 1942, but corrected to
support the current practice (like color cells, width on cells etc.)
* creation of correct HTML documents (according to the extended DTD's)
o support for different styles of editing: assistive tagging, cut and
paste, by hand and parse
* new, very fast parser (100 times faster on big documents)
* display of current HTML context
* commands for finding and selecting the parent and child SGML
elements
o attribute editors
* graphical options menus for some attributes, like align
* command to replace the current container element with another
one (e.g. H1 with H2)
* separate target command
o dialogs for selecting relative and absolute URL's
o special link dialog allowing creation of hyperlinks and the
destination anchors in one step
* auto insert of image width and height (GIF, JPEG & PNG)
* customizable colors for different HTML tags
o text to table and to list converters
o table of contents generator
o HTML tag flexible report tool
o ready to use and test Form examples
* customizable dialog for selecting and customizing of colors
o spell that skips HTML tags
o rich set of entities, including Latin 1, Greek and user-defined ones
* keyboard shortcuts for many HTML tags
o user definable, mode dependent, key bindings
* automatic hex-encoding of typed special characters in URL's
o filters to convert between Latin 1 characters and their
entities (extendible)
o support for unlimited number of templates
* comprehensive context-sensitive, hypertext help with topics
on a selected tag and edited attribute (version related)
* on-line hints when importing and correcting legacy HTML documents
* auto correction of invalid HTML documents
o preview mode that uses Netscape Navigator, NCSA Mosaic, Arena or
Lynx
(interprocess communication is used for Netscape and Mosaic)
* new 10 times faster preview mode for Netscape Navigator
General features
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* international release (versions for 10 languages)
o modern graphical user interface (GUI)
o multiple editing windows
* user customizable pop-up menus for mouse-oriented editing and
features' quick access
* user customizable toolbars with fly-by hints for icons
* nice insensitive icons
* many keyboard shortcuts
o split window functionality
* comprehensive context sensitive and click-on hypertext on-line help
(now the hyperlinks are in color)
o multiple undo and redo of edit actions
o all standard editing features like: text Cut, Copy and Paste,
bookmarks, pair matching, search and replace, etc.
o commands to change case of letters, spell and sort
o formatting commands (move, indent, re-format etc.)
* auto positioning of dialogs under the pointer (less mouse movements)
o user customizable filters and commands
o customization via the standard X11/Motif resources method
o easy localization to left-to-right languages (8-bit characters)
* special no HTML mode for quick start-up and plain text editing
(startup time was reduced by 40% in all modes)
International information
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Localized resource files are available for the following languages:
English (default), Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish,
Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Commands and messages are localized for
each language but the on-line help is available only in English (U.S.).
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Andrzej Stochniol <a...@advasoft.com>
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