NAME
htp - HTML preprocessor
SYNOPSIS
htp [options] <input file> <output file>
htp [options] @<response file>
htp [options] @
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the htp command. This manual page
was written for the Debian distribution because the original program
does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in HTML
format; see /usr/share/doc/htp.
htp is an HTML pre-processor. It is designed to be a flexible authoring
tool that can easily be integrated into the design process. htp works
by processing special HTML files and producing as output regular HTML
files ready to be served up. The original HTML files are "special"
because they (possibly) contain certain markup tags only recognizable
to htp.
To handle larger sets of files, htp also accepts a response file, which
lists input/output filename pairs and additional response files. For
more information on response files, see the HTML documentation.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below. For a complete description,
see the HTML documentation. These options can be used on the command-
line by preceding their name with a ’-’ or ’/’ character.
H, ? Shows basic usage information.
IMGXY Width & height will be added to all image tags. This is the
default setting.
NOIMGXY
Width & height will not be added to image tags (but not removed
if already found).
QUIET Pre-processor only displays warnings and error messages.
VERBOSE
Pre-processor displays all informational, warnings, and error
messages. This is the default setting.
DEPEND Check target file’s dependencies before processing. If the input
file, or any of the file it may INCLUDE have changed, it will
continue and build the output file. Otherwise, a simple
informational message will be printed and no action will occur.
This is the default setting.
NODEPEND
Dependency checking will not occur during processing.
PRECIOUS
Normally, if htp cannot finish processing a file, it will delete
the incomplete output file to prevent using it accidentally.
However, if this is not desirable, the PRECIOUS option will turn
off this behavior.
CONDENSE
All HTML will be condensed, which is merely stripping it of all
linefeeds. HTML does not require any carriage returns or
linefeeds, so the format of the output will not be changed.
However, file sizes will be somewhat smaller, and should load a
little faster, especially over a slow link.
NOCONDENSE
This disables condensing the output. This is the default
setting.
DELIM This can be set to either HTML, CURLY or SQUARE. Each setting
determines how htp markups should be surrounded in the text.
HTML indicates using arrow brackets (’<’ and ’>’) just like
standard HTML tags. CURLY means tags should be surrounded by
curly braces (’{’ and ’}’). SQUARE uses square brackets (’[’ and
’]’) to surround htp tags. Note that this only applies to the
special htp tags and not to the standard HTML tags, including
IMG (which htp can process.) The default setting is HTML.
SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/htp
HTML Documentation
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Matthew MacLeod
<matthew.macleod@btinternet.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but
may be used by others).
htp is copyright 1995-1996 Jim Nelson <jnelson@crl.com>
June 14, 2002