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- What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) display, including paragraph styles, graphics, anchors, character formatting, forced line breaks, centred text, horizontal rules and many special characters (& © < > à á â ã ä å ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ñ ò ó ô õ ö ø ù ú û ü À Á Â Ã Ä Å Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù Ú Û Ü). The formats are based on the standard display formats generated by Netscape.
- Specialized toolbar buttons on the HTML Author Toolbar for HTML editing operations.
- Character formatting toolbar provides instant access to character formats: Citation (<cite>),
Code
(<code>), Emphasis (<em>), Fixed Width (<tt>), Strong (<strong>), Variable (<var>), (<blink>), Bold (<b>), Italic (<i>), and Bold Italic (<b><i>).
- Pick list selection of paragraph styles, and character formatting styles using standard Word for Windows tagging. Paragraph styles toolbar provides quick access to many paragraph styles, and instant promotion or demotion of headers and list items.
- Dialogue box based insertion and maintenance of anchors (hypertext links between documents or parts of the same document).
- Pick list selection of filenames for anchors to local HTML files and embedded graphical images (GIF files), and of anchor names for hotlinks within the same page or another local page. You may even access your Netscape bookmarks from within the HTML Author Anchors dialogue box.
- Hot-linking, during editing, between files in documents consisting of multiple local HTML files (similar to jumping between documents in an HTML viewer such as Netscape), jumping to anchor targets within the same or another local file, and opening other types of files (e.g. .GIF, .AVI, .WAV, etc.) in their native Windows applications.
- "Backward Hot-Linking" from NAME anchors to HREF anchors within the same page.
- All the standard Word for Windows tools are accessible whilst editing your document.
- Ease of use. To create an HTML source document, simply create a new document with the HTMLAUTH.DOT template attached. In other words, the standard Word for Windows "New" operation. No special programs to run.
- Automatic generation of hypertext Table of Contents.
- Automatic insertion of WWW page owner details.
- Conversion of simple Word for Windows tables into HTML 3 table tagging.
- Generation of documents consisting of multiple, linked HTML files from a single source file. Useful for breaking large documents down into smaller files for faster remote access.
- Background images (HTML 3) and colour specifications (Netscape) are supported in generated HTML. (Not WYSIWYG.)
- Finally ... (But see Registration.)
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This page is maintained by Dr Grahame S Cooper (G.S.Cooper@iti.salford.ac.uk) using HTML Author. Last modified on 09 September 1995.