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Editable Sections

Using the Editable Sections page of the HTML Setup dialog (on the File menu), you can directly enter or edit HTML which will be added in the appropriate places whenever an HTML file is created.  

There are two reserved words, %source and %title, which you may use in certain Editable Sections and which have special meanings as follows:

%source : In the Framesets, %source will be replaced by the actual name of the file containing the HTML version of your source text.  This saves you having to alter the filename manually for each different project and ensures that all the HTML files in your Web Concordance frames are correctly linked to each other automatically.
 
%title : In the 'Start of Header' section, %title will be replaced by the actual title for your Web Concordance which you have entered in the Concordance Title section.  This saves you having to specify your HTML title in more than one place.

Controlling HTML Generation

When you are working with Web Concordances or HTML files written by Concordance, you may find you want to alter some aspect of the way the program generates HTML.

If you look at the HTML which Concordance generates, using a text editor or an HTML editor which allows you to examine the HTML directly, you'll see some of it is in upper case and some in lower case:
  • HTML tags in upper case are fully under your control. They are part of the Editable Sections in the HTML Setup dialog. You can change the HTML to anything you like (including non-valid HTML) and Concordance's HTML generator will insert your sections in its generated HTML output.

    For example, the HTML which the program adds by default before a headword in a context is <B><FONT COLOR="RED">. It is in upper case to remind you it can be changed to anything else you want, or even omitted entirely. It's a good idea to maintain the convention and use upper case throughout your own changes to the Editable Sections.
  • HTML tags in lower case are built into the program and can't be altered by changing anything in the Editable Sections.  Bear in mind, though, that many of them can still be modified by selecting different options in the Settings section of HTML Setup, or by altering what's displayed on screen before you start HTML output.  If that is not sufficient, you'll have to edit the generated HTML yourself.


    If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and find your frame borders are invisible, see Frequently Asked Questions.


    See also:
    Building Web Concordances
    HTML Setup
    Managing large files for HTML

    Other related topics