The first software I built was Fm2HTML, that took FrameMaker documents and converted them to HTML. This is the early days of the Web.
The conversion was for multi-file documents, which included links, images, tables, indexes and more. The structure of the original document was preserved, as was a lot of the formatting.
FrameMaker was widely used in the research community at the time. It was a very powerful tool for writing books and longer documents.
https://www.w3.org/Tools/fm2html.htm
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qyd0ro@mastodon.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
@jon@vivaldi.net is that FOSS? also, is it still alive? :amazing:
jon@social.vivaldi.net · 1 pts · 1y
@qyd0ro@mastodon.xyz
This code has not been updated since I stopped working on it in 1994 and started working on Opera instead.
At the time FLOSS was not even a term. The code was open. You would typically compile it yourself. I believe that if you wanted to use it commercially, you would have had to contact Televerkets Forskningsinstitutt, which I was working for at the time.
qyd0ro@mastodon.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
@jon@vivaldi.net I see. That's unlucky :(
nitot@framapiaf.org · 1 pts · 1y
@jon@vivaldi.net Better URL: https://www.w3.org/Tools/fm2html.html
jon@social.vivaldi.net · 1 pts · 1y
@nitot@framapiaf.org
Thanks.