Welcome to...
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        asWedit HTML and text editor Version 4.0


What ?
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asWedit is a comprehensive and easy to use HTML and text editor for 
X Window System and Motif. It offers three independent modes:
a plain text editing mode and two context-sensitive, validating  modes
for authoring of HyperText Markup Language documents as used on the 
Internet and intranets.


Who by ?
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AdvaSoft Ltd
London, England


Release date
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05 August 1998

Last updated
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20 March 1999 (v. 4.0.1/Linux update only)


Availability
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asWedit is available for free for students and staff in education and
charitable non-profit organizations (non-commercial usage only), and for 
free evaluation by individuals and commercial organizations. See the 
license for details.

asWedit is available in binary form by anonymous ftp and via http from:

         <URL:http://www.advasoft.com/asWedit/>
         <URL:http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/www/asWedit/>
         <URL:ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/www/asWedit/>

The software is mirrored on many archives including the following:
	<URL:ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/www/asWedit/>
        <URL:ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/www/asWedit/>
	<URL:http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/editors/asWedit/>
	<URL:ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/editors/asWedit/>
	<URL:ftp://ftp.edelweb.fr/pub/asWedit/>

Following platforms are supported (in OS alphabetic order):

 file Id           System                OS
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 rs6k.aix3.2.5     IBM RS/6000           AIX 3.2.5
 rs6k.aix4.2       IBM RS/6000           AIX 4.2
 alpha.osf3        DEC Alpha             Digital Unix/OSF1 V3.x
 hp.hpux10         HP9000 700/800        HP-UX 10.20
 sgi.irix5         SGI                   IRIX 5.x
 i386.linux        PC, i386              Linux 1.2.x (ELF)
 i386.linux_dyna   PC, i386              Linux 1.2.x (libXm v.2 req.)
 i386.sco5         PC, i386              SCO Open Server 5
 i386.sco          PC, i386              SCO
 i386.solaris2.6   PC, i386              SunOS 5.6
 sparc.solaris2.6  SUN Sparc             SunOS 5.6
 sparc.solaris2.5  SUN Sparc             SunOS 5.5

NOTE: UnixWare users can use the binary-compatible "i386.sco" version.

To obtain the binary distribution please download the gzip-compressed 
tar file for your platform and then unpack it. For example for IRIX 5 
download the file asWedit-4.0-sgi.irix5.tar.gz. To unpack it you can use 
the following:
        gzip -dc asWedit-4.0-sgi.irix5.tar.gz | tar xvf -

(the distribution will be placed into asWedit-4.0 directory).

If you want to use Emacs bindings get the following file as well:
        emacs-mode-asWedit-4.0.tar.gz

If you want to use a localized version please download a resource file
from the i18n-resources directory appropriate for your language. For
example, to get the German resources please download the following file:
        i18n-resources/AsWedit-4.0-de.tar.gz

NOTE about gzip format. As of version 4.0, asWedit is distributed in this,
  well compressed format. If you do not have this program yet, you should 
  consider getting it. It is readily available as pre-built binaries for 
  many systems as well as in a source form on the Internet. Alternatively, 
  many servers will uncompress gzip-ed files "on-the-fly" when you do not 
  give the ".gz" extension (this will however increase significantly the 
  amount of data transferred and is not recommended).


License and installation
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When you obtain the software please read and accept the terms of the
License Agreement.
Please read the installation information contained in the INSTALL file.


HTML features
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  * context-sensitive HTML 4.0 Transitional anpecification by W3C HTML 4.0 Frameset modes;
    only tags valid in the current context are available
  * full support for all HTML tags and attributes based on the HTML 4.0
    specification by W3C 
  * creation of correct HTML documents (according to the DTD's)
  o support for different styles of editing: assistive tagging, cut and
    paste, by hand and parse
  o very fast parser (important for big documents)
  o display of the current HTML context
  o commands for finding and selecting the parent and child SGML elements
  o attribute editors
  o graphical options menus for selected attributes, like align
  o command to replace the current container element with another
    one (e.g. H1 with H2)
  o separate target command
  o dialogs for selecting relative and absolute URL's
  o special link dialog allowing creation of hyperlinks and the
    destination anchors in one step
  o auto insert of image width and height (GIF, JPEG & PNG)
  o * customizable colors for different HTML tags
  o text to table and to list converters
  o table of contents generator
  o HTML tag flexible report tool
  o ready to use and test Form examples
  o customizable dialog for selecting and customizing of colors
  o spell that skips HTML tags
  o rich set of entities, including Latin 1, Greek and user-defined ones
  o keyboard shortcuts for many HTML tags
  o user definable, mode dependent, key bindings
  o automatic hex-encoding of typed special characters in URL's
  o filters to convert between Latin 1 characters and their
    entities (extensible)
  o support for unlimited number of templates
  * comprehensive context-sensitive, hypertext help with topics
    on a selected tag and edited attribute (version related)
  o on-line hints when importing and correcting legacy HTML documents
  o auto correction of invalid HTML documents
  o preview mode that uses Netscape Navigator, NCSA Mosaic, Arena or Lynx
    (interprocess communication is used for Netscape and Mosaic)
  o new 10 times faster preview mode for Netscape Navigator

General features
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  o international release (versions for 10 languages)
  o modern graphical user interface (GUI)
  o multiple editing windows
  o user customizable pop-up menus for mouse-oriented editing and
    features' quick access
  * user customizable toolbars with fly-by hints for icons
  * nice insensitive icons
  o many keyboard shortcuts
  o split window functionality
  * comprehensive context sensitive and click-on hypertext on-line help
    (now the hyperlinks are in color)
  o multiple undo and redo of edit actions
  o all standard editing features like: text Cut, Copy and Paste,
    bookmarks, pair matching, search and replace, etc.
  o commands to change case of letters, spell and sort
  o formatting commands (move, indent, re-format etc.)
  o auto positioning of dialogs under the pointer (less mouse movements)
  o user customizable filters and commands
  o customization via the standard X11/Motif resources method
  o easy localization to left-to-right languages (8-bit characters)
  * special no HTML mode for quick start-up and plain text editing
    (startup time was reduced by 40% in all modes)

(*) - means a completely new or dramatically improved feature in ver. 4.0


International information
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Localized resource files are available for the following languages:
English (default), Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish,
Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Commands and messages are localized for
each language but the on-line help is available only in English (U.S.).
Some localizations are incomplete though, especially in the HTML modes.


More information
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More information, including details about ASWedit - the commercial
version of asWedit - is available on the AdvaSoft Web site:
        <URL:http://www.advasoft.com>
Commercial information about ASWedit can also be requested by sending
E-mail to:  info@advasoft.com


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Andre Stochniol
as@advasoft.com
