Re: More on HTML editor

[gareth@vcn.bc.ca (Gareth Jones)]

Toby Reiter (treiter@cs.oberlin.edu) wrote:
: I may be mistaken, but one thing I just remembered is someone recently
: talking about the scripting possibilities of WordPerfect GS (and I assume
: II).  Now, for some reason, I think they mentioned the possibility of
: using it to make a html editor.  If not, would this be possible to do
: (especially in the light of the now shareware status of WordPerfect GS)?
: 
: Toby
: 
: "Happy trails to you! Until..we meet..again...."
: 
Hmm. That may have been me. I used a set of macros to change html to
nicely formatted WordPerfect documents. I didn't make a set to go the
OTHER direction, though. A problem with Apple II WP macros - they don't
allow one to call another, and there's no macro editor available, as there
are in other versions of the program. That's why I needed to execute a
_set_ of these macros.

Serious macro people should probably turn to either Apple Writer or
AppleWorks (with UltraMacros) to do stuff like this.

For what it's worth, I've gone on to write a HCGS stack that does those
macros one better. It does a rather nice job of de-html-ing. It should
appear in Steve Cavanaugh's HyperQuarterly disk magazine.

-Gareth