"Word" is extravagantly profligate in the HTML that it generates. For example, the JFC table of contents page is 450 KB. I estimate that a handcoded version would be under 20 KB.
For my own work I found that I get much better results by writing the HTML directly. ----- Original Message ----- From: Henry Rich <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 17:13 Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] A couple of gripes about the JSoftware site To: General forum <[email protected]> > I would be overjoyed to get a hot-linked index. I'll give > you the > Microsoft Word source, or the HTML that it produces when I > create a Web > page, and you can go to it. > > If I give you the source, you could add to the index callouts if > you > like. I found that to be a surprisingly onerous task. > > The web pages are built as follows: > > I save the source in Word as HTML; > I run a script to find the chapters & split them into pages; > the script installs the navigation header/footer in each page. > > The Index chapter is deleted because it is meaningless. > > If this seems OK, email me off-list & we'll get started. > > Henry Rich > > Hahn, Harvey wrote: > > Henry Rich wrote: > > |Oh, you're talking about the index... no, there is no online > > |link for it, because it is just a list of page numbers. > I don't know > > |how to generate links to the pages automatically from > Microsoft Word. > > |So, the index is available only in the printed copy of the book. > > > > I'm a librarian (retiring in just a couple of months), and > indexes are > > our stock in trade. ;-) Would you be willing to give me > permission> (once I get a copy of your book, which is on my "to > do" list) to create > > a hotlinked index for the online version of your book? > (Or would you > > prefer to do that yourself?) > > > > Harvey > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm> > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
