LPM: wyswyg

[Tom Scanlan]

Although, writing one in Perl/TK would be fun...
-tom

----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Hourcle <oneiros at dcr.net>
To: perl mongers <lexington-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: LPM: wyswyg


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> On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 repett0 at sac.uky.edu wrote:
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> > I probably spelled that wrong, but anyways,.... does anyone know of a
perl
> > script that does html editing.  No this is the kicker, this script is
for
> > pages already made, and can be modified without knowing html.  like you
> > should be able to highlight text and click something to make it bold.
>
> You're trying to handle this all through a GUI, I assume, as you mentioned
> 'highlight' and 'click'
> Perl may not be the best way to handle this sort of thing...
> I've seen Java programs that do really rudimentary HTML, but in the long
> run, it's almost easier to open a file in MSWord, change the file and do
> 'save as HTML' (or WordPerfect, whatever your prefered word processor is)
>
> The only thing that I can think of that may even give you a basis to start
> from is HTML::FromText (which I've never used), which is supposed to build
> HTML from text files...
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> Joe Hourcle
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