About SimplyHTML

SimplyHTML is an application for text processing. It stores documents as HTML files in combination with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The application combines text processing features as known from popular word processors with a simple and generic way to store textual information and styles.

SimplyHTML is not intended to be used as an editor for web pages in the first place (although it can be used for this purpose with some limitations too). Especially HTML and CSS produced by other applications might or might not work with SimplyHTML, as other applications as well have trouble with content not produced by themselves.

See also chapter 'What is SimplyHTML? ' in section 'Using SimplyHTML' for additional details.

The SimplyHTML Project

The SimplyHTML project was started to build an application with above features and to document, how this can be done. This is approached by building SimplyHTML in several stages and by documenting all stages thoroughly. Each stage is covering certain functionality making it easier to concentrate on some of the many details such an application is made of. Stages are described in this tutorial, which as well serves as online help. Source codes are documented with Javadoc in addition.

Open Source

All source code is openly available along with the application and can be used to find out, how the application is working. Among serving for above functions, SimplyHTML shall be an example for developers intending to build applications with similar functionality. As well it can serve as basis for other applications.

Please see chapter License for details about terms and conditions for availability and distribution of this product.

Documentation

Sources are documented by Javadoc comments, which are compiled to an API documents collection with Javadoc.

The project and application is documented with this tutorial. The tutorial covers general information about the project and the application, information about installation and requirements, the internal structure and functions of SimplyHTML and finally its usage .

The tutorial can be used as online help for SimplyHTML as well as for reading about how SimplyHTML is built. It is available in formats plain HTML, JavaHelp and PDF. The tutorial was built with application HelpExpert entirely.

Application HelpExpert is available at http://www.calcom.de/eng/product/hlpex.htm