Thanks for the responses concerning frames.
I'll email separately about how customisation of widths and
colours can be done.
> 2. Customizing frames: Can I (automatically) include "personal"
> stuff in a specific frame apart from the main one?
Let me say here that the contents of the Contents and Index frames
are just the usual Table-of-Contents page, and Index page
as currently produced by LaTeX2HTML. You can view them as usual within
the main frame, using the existing navigation tools and hyperlinks.
For these, there are already *hook* subroutines to allow customisation
within Perl: &add_toc_hook and &add_idx_hook .
So you can use these to put whatever you want on those pages,
and that will show in the appropriate frame as well.
>
> 3. Is the updated l2h version already on the developer site?
> Does it make sense to heavily look into this version or
> should I wait until it's more stable (regarding frame usage)?
Not yet.
I wanted to get some feedback first, concerning obvious
errors --- perhaps platform-dependent things.
I've only used Netscape, and do not know how the pages appear
using other browsers; e.g. MSIE.
Within a few days I'll update the archive at Darmstadt.
It is not sufficient to get just the new frames.perl .
There are many small changes within LaTeX2HTML that allow the
code within frames.perl to click seamlessly into place.
As for the kind of things that may still need some work,
Anthony Stone wrote:
>(1) On my browser (Netscape 4.02) the text "Click on the Contents or
> Index button ..." is cut off about halfway down the body of the
> letters.
This depends on the font-size setting in the browser,
but the frame height is a constant.
Currently this piece of text uses <SMALL><SMALL>
-- perhaps I should make it a fixed height?
LaTeX2HTML avoids making such decisions, as these
are generally things that should be left to the reader;
perhaps this is an exception ?
Comments ?
>(2) I find the Contents frame rather narrow, and there's no way of
> enlarging it. The Index frame width is probably about right, but
> again it would be nice to be able to change it.
Someone else said it was too wide.
Again I think you must have a large font-size set in the browser.
Personally I use a base size of 14pt, but don't wish to impose such
a choice on anyone else.
These navigation frames could be allowed to have a border, and be
resizable within the user's browser.
This would be the most flexible, for functionality...
...but looks bad aesthetically, especially when the contents are
so narrow that no scrolling or resizing is necessary.
Catch 22. Comments and opinions are sought.
> But these are niggles. It's a valuable enhancement.
It is dealing with the niggles that makes something great,
rather than just good.
BTW, with further comments please state what browser,
version and platform is being used.
All the best,
Ross Moore
