19 Mar 1995 - Preliminary Information

Bugs and Restrictions

SpHyDir currently ignores tags nested within a Heading and may lose characters after the start of such a tag. It is important for Headings to remain pretty much plain text so that they can appear reasonably in a Table of Contents. There is a move in HTML 3.0 to allow an IMG SRC to appear as part of the Hn tag instead of as part of its contents. This seems a more reasonable direction.

The current design may require you to perform several operations to completely initialize a new object. After dropping a SECTION from the toolbar, you should type in a Header. The Section itself is a SpHyDir concept, HTML only recognizes the Header text. If you type nothing, then SpHyDir might generate "<H2> </H2>" which makes little sense and might be invalid. But currently SpHyDir doesn't force you to actually type a header, and it may not go back later on and "sanity check" the document to detect errors before generating HTML. So be sure to finish what you start. This includes remembering to drag a GIF file over to associate something with every Image object you create.

VX-Rexx 2.1B has a bug when moving a tree of records in a container. Suppose, for example, you decide to move one section in front of another. You can click on the sections to collapse the tree so that just the two icons are showing. You can then drag the second icon in front of the first. However, when you re-expand the tree, you will see that elements two or three levels down in the tree have been incorrectly reorganized. For now, the safe way to move large sections of the document is to mark them with Alt-L and move them through the SpHyDir special "Clipboard" window.

You cannot drag the contents of the Web Explorer screen directly into the SpHyDir workarea. This is not a big problem, because SpHyDir requires that HTML files be inside the HTMLLIB anyway. So first drag the WE screen to one of the folders inside the library, then probably rename it to something useful, and then edit it with SpHyDir.

SpHyDir saves the position and size of its subwindows. Very simple windows can be resized automatically. The Workarea and Link Manager windows are more complicated and cannot currently be resized. SpHyDir currently doesn't save font or color changes for windows, so it should not be reconfigured by dropping System Setup Palette objects.

Two types of object go in front of things: the Horizontal Rule (HR) and a Target. However, when you put either in front of a section, the tree structure shows the objects as if they were part of the previous section and not an introducer to the new section. That wan't intended, but it would be almost impossible to change. Treat it as a permanent feature.

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