htp - HTML preprocessor

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>