Ocean 549: Generating HTML

Oceanography 549--Communicating Ocean Science--Spring Quarter 1996

Having explored some of the reference guides to HTML available on the web ( NCSA tutorial, the University of Kansas quick reference guide, the W3 Consortium style guide), it appears that generating HTML is not particularly difficult. The files are simply text files to which the markup tags have been added.

Demonstration of Converting Some Text Manually, Using Microsoft Word

Problems Areas for Scientific Markup

Greek letters, superscripts, subscripts. Here's an example, but will defer the how-to until next class session.
Equations. Done as images; will defer until that class session.

Approaches to Markup

manually edit text files
dedicated editors; I've listed some for Windows...any susgestions for other computing environments
word processing converters, e.g., Internet Assistant for Microsoft Word
computer generated pages, e.g., useful in working with lists that change