Speaking of fp html commands

Fri May 30 12:50:40 PDT 2008

Kenneth Brody Friday, May 30, 2008 3:13 PM:
>
> Quoting Bruce Easton (Fri, 30 May 2008 14:58:57 -0400):
>
> > Bruce's reply to Rick - PART 4 - next paragraph:
> >
> > I guess the :zz is kind of a compromise in that you just
> > need to learn the main filePro version of a tag and then
> > you can use :zz to add the HTML options virtually in HTML
> > format afterwards.
>
> The main purpose of :ZZ is to allow you to use tags/attributes
> that are not
> known to filePro.  For example, if HTML 5 were to add a "foo" attribute to
> the <BODY> tag, you could use it with something like:
>
>      html :bo :zz "foo=bar"
>
> rather than have to wait for a new release of filePro which knows the new
> attributes.
>

Yes, and that's good that it is there for that reason.
Someone could use report and generate simple reports
from filepro and only use cabe's editor and probably
be fairly productive (and having what help is there
in the editor at their disposal).

But in my PART 3 which still hasn't made it to the forum
(still not sure why - I had a body tag in there, so I
expressed it differently - still hasn't come across), I
explain why I chose to use :cr, :cl and :tx when I
generate HTML and I also ask the question - why learn
another set of cryptic codes for HTML when one can
be learning HTML and just asking filepro to spit it out?

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.