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AscToHTM
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Version
5.0
AscToHTM is a powerful and highly configurable utility
that converts text files into HTML pages. The
software uses advanced text-recognition algorithms to
detect the headings, bullets, indentation levels,
emphasized text, tables and ASCII art in the original
text. The result is a good-looking HTML page that
faithfully reflects the structure of the original.
AscToHTM detects many types of headings (numbered,
underlined etc) which are then used to generate a
hyperlinked contents list for your file. The detected
headings may then be used to split large files into a
set of smaller pages, or a linked set frames.
All URLs, email addresses etc are converted into
active hyperlinks, as too are user-specified keywords
via a Link Dictionary feature.
Full HTML table generation is attempted on plain text
tables. Comma-delimited tables are also supported. A
table definition feature allows you to identify
different types of table, their structure and the
formatting to be applied. For example tables with
numerical data can be displayed as series of bar
graphs.
AscToHTM comes with many options to customize the
output. You can define the title, colors, standard
HTML headers and footers, style sheets and meta tags
to be added. A preprocessor allows more control over
the conversion process and the use of embedded HTML.
You can customize your HTML by defining a number of
standard fragments, e.g. to add a standard HTML header
and footer to each page.
The many options can be saved to "policy files" for re-
use at a later date. AscToHTM supports the use of
wildcards, and a command line version is well suited
to batch conversion. It is supplied with extensive
documentation, which is converted from text to HTML by
AscToHTM itself.
Whether you are a business user that wants to place
key documents and reports on your Intranet, or a
budding author who wishes to publish your prose as
good-looking e-books, this software will save you many
hours of effort.
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