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The following policies were added in version 5.0 of AscToHTM, or version 2.0 of AscToRTF.
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HTML
RTF
RTF (help file generation)
Detagger
Config files
Analysis policies
HTML generation policies
RTF generation policies
Analysis policies
- Look for diagrams
- Check indentation for consistency
- Input file contains PCL codes
- Input file contains Japanese characters
- Lines to ignore at end of file
- Lines to ignore at start of file
- Column boundaries have zero width
- Check domain name syntax
- Create telnet links
- Expect Embedded Headings
- heading key phrases
HTML generation policies
- Fragments file
- Preserve new paragraph offset
- Number of words to include in filename
- Omit <HEAD> and <BODY> from output
- Comment generation code
- Document Base URL
- Suppress all colour markup
Frames
Frames support is added in version 4, so there are a large number of policies in support of this new feature.
- Place document in frames
- Output frame name
- Header Frame depth
- Footer Frame depth
- Contents Frame width
- Use main header in header frame
- Use main footer in footer frame
- Add contents frame if possible
- Add Frame border
- Open frame links in new window
- New frame link window name
- Add NOFRAMES links
- NOFRAMES link URL
- Number of levels in contents frame
- First frame page number
- Header frame background colour
- Header frame text colour
- Contents frame background colour
- Contents frame text colour
- Footer frame background colour
- Footer frame text colour
RTF generation policies
The following policies were introduced since V3.2 of AsctoHTM was released
- Check indentation for consistency
- Default TABLE layout
- Default TABLE alignment
- Ignore table header during analysis
- Table extending factor
- Column merging factor
- Could be blank line separated
- Input file has change bars
- Input file contains DOS characters
- Input file contains MIME encoding
- Treat each line as a paragraph
- Preserve line structure
- Preserve file structure using <PRE>
- Allow email beginning with numbers
- Only allow explicit FTP links
- HTML version to be targeted
- Default Font
- Use CSS to implement fonts
RTF-related policies
The following policies were introduced in V3.2 of AsctoHTM
- Create a log file
- Output log filename
- First line indentation (in blocks)
- Default TABLE cell alignment
- Input file has page markers
- Page marker size (in lines)
- Input file is double spaced
- Look for MAIL and USENET headers
- Look for bullets
- Look for horizontal rulers
- Minimum ruler length
- Look for hanging paragraphs
- Look for indentation
- Look for preformatted text
- Look for quoted text
- Look for short lines
- Look for white space
- Maximum level to show in contents
- Monitor tag generation
- New browser window name
- Open links in new browser window
- Preserve underlining of headings
- recognize '-' as a bullet
- recognize 'o' as a bullet
- Rule set to be used
- Display messages
- Suppress INFO messages
- Suppress TAG ERROR messages
- Suppress URL messages
- Suppress WARNING messages
- Suppress program ERROR messages
- Use <EM> and <STRONG> markup
- Add mail headers to contents list
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