[HT2HTML-devel] Proposed new look for tmda.net

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

TMDA'ers and HT2HTML'ers -

I think I'm finally finished modifying both ht2html and our 
documentation generator classmod.  Please take a moment to surf over 
to http://lazarus.wolfhome.com/~gre7g/tmda/ and give me any opinions 
you have on this proposed look.

I have not surfed this in other browsers yet, so I won't be surprised 
if there are browser-specific formatting issues.  If it appears to 
render poorly in your browser, please let me know what you are using 
and mail me a screenshot.  All feedback is welcome.

For those of you tech weenies that want to see how this was done, 
you'll need the following files...

Three modified ht2html files:

http://lazarus.wolfhome.com/~gre7g/ht2html_mods.tgz

A copy of the htdocs directory I used:

http://lazarus.wolfhome.com/~gre7g/new_htdocs.tgz

I didn't touch the Makefile, but I made a lot of mods to 
TMDAGenerator.py, added an image/stylesheet directory in layout/, and 
created a dynamic image generator in dyn_buttons/.  The <puke!> Perl 
script in dyn_buttons/ will only be run if you change the mirrors 
list or the top-level topics, so generally speaking, you should be 
able to make the new documentation set if you could make the old one.

For those of you liable to add mirrors, change top-level buttons, or 
who just like to see how things work, you'll need to have ImageMagick 
(http://imagemagick.org) and PerlMagick 
(http://imagemagick.org/www/perl.html) installed.  The code in 
dyn_buttons/compose.pl is rather crude, but [1] it works, [2] it 
generates nicer looking images than by using freetype2, and [3] 
unlike PythonMagick, PerlMagick is stable and works.

Finally, do you prefer the coffee look over the blue that I proposed 
aeons ago?

Gre7g.

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