I noticed the <PRE> prefixing trick in a recent posting...

Just keep in mind, that special characters like "<" and ">"
and "&" can still cause some trouble inside the remaining
text passages... so it might be a good idea to replace them
by &LT; and &GT; and &AMP; tokens.

Find a little command file for text-to-html conversion (not
too fancy) attached. Using it on spoolfiles with CCTL might
not yield nice results. Using CHANGEQ 1/1 TO "" IN ALL in
the EDITOR might be added to get rid of column. (Of course,
parsing the CCTL and creating appropriate linefeeds would
yield a nicer result in many situtations).

Lars.



parm filename, entry=""

comment  convert plain textfile to simple html format, lars 30.06.94

if "!entry" = "" then
  setvar myself "!-1"
  !myself ;entry="phase1" > edtcmds
  !myself ;entry="phase2" < edtcmds
  !myself ;entry="phase3" > edtcmds
  !myself ;entry="phase4" < edtcmds
  deletevar myself
endif

if "!entry" = "phase1" then
  echo set variable
  echo exit
endif

if "!entry" = "phase2" then
  file edttext=!filename
  run editor.pub.sys,basicentry
  reset edttext
endif

if "!entry" = "phase3" then
  echo changeq "&" to "&amp;" in all
  echo changeq "<" to "&lt;" in all
  echo changeq ">" to "&gt;" in all
  echo add .1
  echo !<title!>No Title!</title!>
  echo !<h1!>No Heading!</h1!>
  echo !<address!>No author!</address!>!<p!>
  echo !<pre!>
  echo //
  echo add
  echo !</pre!>
  echo //
  echo exit
endif

if "!entry" = "phase4" then
  file edttext=!filename
  run editor.pub.sys,basicentry
  reset edttext
endif