Journal for Bruce B. Salem

Wednesday July 20, 2005

The scheme to generate these web pages from a pure text file that a perl script reads a simple markup to produce them is working well. I have added back and next links and a link to a document root.

It is amusing to think that I am reinventing TROFF for HTML except that most of the choices that one would have to specify in the HTML document are set to defaults, and the text is actually laid out in table form rather than bothering with indents, etc.

I can include an image into the text block. This is done by just typing the HTML directly into the text. A LAST: link could be made by having perl look for the most recent HTML file in the list.

Having the make(1) utility, part of the developmet system, would really be nice. Using it, if one of the input files got edited, the HTML files would be automatically regenerated by doing "make all" from the command line or from a script run with cron(1).