[HT2HTML-devel] Introduction

[Gre7g L. <gr...@wo...>]

Barry suggested that I introduce myself to the list and tell you guys 
what I'm up to.

My name is Gre7g Luterman and I'm working on a proposal to revamp the 
tmda.net site.  I'm trying to bring it from being purely text-based 
to giving it more of a modern, graphic-oriented look.  As you may 
know, tmda.net uses ht2html to generate the navigation for the site.

For the most part, ht2html will do what I want, but it makes a few 
assumptions that I couldn't have.  For example, assuming a width for 
the sidebar and assuming that a spacer should be placed between 
topics.  I've added methods to override these assumptions.

At this point, I've almost finished my patches and they are really 
not as drastic as I had feared they would be.  I've had to make a 
handful of changes to Sidebar.py and Skeleton.py.  With luck, they 
are still backward compatible.  I believe they still are, but when 
I'm done, we'll want to run regression tests to make sure that the 
new code still generates comparable HTML with old settings/files.

For those who are interested, here's some URLs you may look at:

The original site: http://tmda.sourceforge.net/

The look I'm going for: http://wolfhome.com/~gre7g/layout2.htm

What I have so far: http://lazarus.wolfhome.com/~gre7g/tmda/

Like I said, it's almost there.  I'm still working on making a 
collapse-able menu in the sidebar and clearly some of the topics will 
need to be wrapped to keep them from bleeding into the body region.

Additionally, I've written Perl <retch!> code to dynamically generate 
the text for the topic buttons and the mirror list at the top.  This 
will still need to be integrated into either the make file or the 
classmod (preferrably the classmod as I prefer working in Python over 
messing with Makefile's).

When I'm done, I'll submit the patches and a copy of the TMDA site 
design so you can see how I'm doing what I do.

Feedback is welcome.

Gre7g.

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