HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Explained

Why you needn't bother learning HTML

Converters already exist (e.g., Frame, LaTeX, man pages)

WYSIWYG editors are coming soon (already here for Windows)

Automatic converters rarely do exactly what you want

LaTeX users will be happy; it's similar to LaTeX

non-LaTeX users will be happy; it's nothing like LaTeX

It's not that bad...

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a text-based text formatting description (similar to LaTeX, Scribe, etc)

HTML commands are CaSe-InSeNsItIvE

Some commands are only given once:

<LI>, <P>,
	<HR>

Others must be opened and closed explicitly:

<EM>text</EM>,
	<STRONG>text</STRONG>

PC Week Crash Course (you can ignore the <html>, <head>, and <body> sections)

NCSA Primer (you should already be familiar with the Web)

VASC'94 Retreat -- mwm@cmu.edu