htp [options] <input file> <output file>
htp [options] @<response file>
htp [options] @
This manual page documents briefly the htp command. This
manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original
program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in HTML
format; see /usr/share/doc/htp.
htp is an HTML pre-processor. It is designed to be a
flexible authoring tool that can easily be integrated into the design
process. htp works by processing special HTML files and producing as
output regular HTML files ready to be served up. The original HTML files are
"special" because they (possibly) contain certain markup tags only
recognizable to htp.
To handle larger sets of files, htp also accepts a response file, which
lists input/output filename pairs and additional response files. For more
information on response files, see the HTML documentation.
A summary of options is included below. For a complete
description, see the HTML documentation. These options can be used on the
command-line by preceding their name with a '-' or '/' character.
- H, ?
- Shows basic usage information.
- IMGXY
- Width & height will be added to all image tags. This is the default
setting.
- NOIMGXY
- Width & height will not be added to image tags (but not removed if
already found).
- QUIET
- Pre-processor only displays warnings and error messages.
- VERBOSE
- Pre-processor displays all informational, warnings, and error messages.
This is the default setting.
- DEPEND
- Check target file's dependencies before processing. If the input file, or
any of the file it may INCLUDE have changed, it will continue and build
the output file. Otherwise, a simple informational message will be printed
and no action will occur. This is the default setting.
- NODEPEND
- Dependency checking will not occur during processing.
- PRECIOUS
- Normally, if htp cannot finish processing a file, it will delete the
incomplete output file to prevent using it accidentally. However, if this
is not desirable, the PRECIOUS option will turn off this behavior.
- CONDENSE
- All HTML will be condensed, which is merely stripping it of all linefeeds.
HTML does not require any carriage returns or linefeeds, so the format of
the output will not be changed. However, file sizes will be somewhat
smaller, and should load a little faster, especially over a slow
link.
- NOCONDENSE
- This disables condensing the output. This is the default setting.
- DELIM
- This can be set to either HTML, CURLY or SQUARE. Each setting determines
how htp markups should be surrounded in the text. HTML indicates using
arrow brackets ('<' and '>') just like standard HTML tags. CURLY
means tags should be surrounded by curly braces ('{' and '}'). SQUARE uses
square brackets ('[' and ']') to surround htp tags. Note that this only
applies to the special htp tags and not to the standard HTML tags,
including IMG (which htp can process.) The default setting is HTML.
- /usr/share/doc/htp
- HTML Documentation
This manual page was written by Matthew MacLeod
<matthew.macleod@btinternet.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but
may be used by others).
htp is copyright 1995-1996 Jim Nelson <jnelson@crl.com>