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From: Paul Coddington <paulc@oldnova.npac.syr.edu>
Subject: alias program
To: Geoffrey Fox <gcf@oldnova.npac.syr.edu>
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I have finally made an HTML aliasing program (using a lot of code written by 
Geoffrey) that seems to work (as usual, it took longer than expected). 

You can call it by

 ~paulc/bin/htmlalias my_file_name


Here is what it does...


Reads in all the aliases and associated URLs and document titles from the 
alias file.

Copies my_file_name to my_file_name.alias (to make sure you keep a copy 
of the original)

Edits my_file_name to replace the aliases, printing a list of aliases it
finds to STDOUT.

It replaces aliases of the form

 {alias}(hypertext bluewords)   by  
 <!-- alias --><a href="ULR_for_this_alias">hypertext bluewords</A>

 {alias}() by
 <!-- alias --><a href="ULR_for_this_alias">document title for this alias</A>

 {alias}   not followed by any round brackets    by
 {alias}                          # if the alias is not in the alias list
 ULR_for_this_alias !alias        # if the alias is in the alias list
(this is supposed to make !alias a comment - not sure if it works for all
browsers)
The idea behind this is that you can have embedded aliases, e.g. for
images, such as <IMG SRC={pauls mug shot} ALIGN=top> 


Let me know if you have any problems.

Paul