SimplyHTML readme file Stage 13, May 24th, 2009 Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 Ulrich Hilger, 2008 Dimitri Polivaev http://simplyhtml.sf.net/ (see 'License' below) This file contains ------------------ About SimplyHTML Downloads Requirements Installation Usage Compilation License About SimplyHTML ---------------- SimplyHTML is an application for text processing. It stores documents as HTML files in combination with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). SimplyHTML is not intended to be used as an editor for web pages. The application combines text processing features as known from popular word processors with a simple and generic way of storing textual information and styles. Downloads --------- The SimplyHTML offers 3 packages you can download: - SimplyHTML_bin_<Version>.zip - this is the one you need! - SimplyHTML_manual_<Version>.zip - an HTML version of the help (only for your convenience, the same help is available within the application) - SimplyHTML_src_<Version>.tar.gz - the source code, if you don't know what it is, you don't need it! Requirements ------------ To use SimplyHTML, you will need to have a Java JRE (Java Runtime Environment) installed, with a version equal or higher to 1.4.2. To compile and run the sources, a Java 2 Standard Edition 1.4 (J2SE) or higher Development Kit (JDK) is required. J2SE and/or JRE can be obtained at http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ Installation ------------ Once you've downloaded the 'bin' and possibly the 'manual' zip files, extract them (keeping the directory structure) into a directory of your choice, e.g. "C:\Program Files\" or "/opt", a directory "SimplyHTML" will be created, with everything you need within it. In the below lines, we'll call this directory <SimplyHTMLDir>. Note: Contents of the downloaded zip file can be restored by using one of the many applications capable to extract ZIP files. If you do not have such an application, you can use application Extractor available free at http://www.calcom.de/eng/product/xtract.htm Usage ----- Starting SimplyHTML can be as easy as double-clicking on the file "<SimplyHTMLDir>/lib/SimplyHTML.jar". If it doesn't work, try to call the following from the command line: Under Windows: javaw -jar "<SimplyHTMLDir>\lib\SimplyHTML.jar" Under Linux and other UN*X-like OSs: java -jar "<SimplyHTMLDir>/lib/SimplyHTML.jar" If you've downloaded the manual, you can see it in your browser by just pointing it to "<SimplyHTMLDir>/manual/index.htm". Compilation ----------- If you'd like to compile SimplyHTML yourself, we would assume that you know what you're doing, hence only the highlights: - make sure that you have jhall.jar (from JavaHelp2) and gnu-regexp.jar somewhere on your system and adapt the properties 'jhall.jar' and 'gnu-regexp.jar' within src/build.xml. - the call of 'ant' within the 'src' sub-directory should then create everything you need one level above. License ------- This distribution of SimplyHTML is published under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License. To read the license, please open file 'gpl.txt' which is part of this package too.