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a2html

updated by rck, 2004-10-10

a2html is a lex-program, which I wrote back in May 2004. I've encountered some problems while pasting JAVA-Sourcecode in phpWebSite, which hindered me on adding examples to my Tutorials. As I've been using Lex for another lecture of my study at the same time, I put it to good use here as well.

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Features
a2html does five things: Convert offending characters to their html equivalents (&, <, >) or escape them ({, }, [, ]) Translate tabulators to the corresponding number of non breaking spaces Convert everything to a monospaced font (tt tag), putting a hard break (br) on the end of each line. Number each line, starting by 1 Surround everything with p

Features

a2html does five things:

Convert offending characters to their html equivalents (&, <, >) or escape them ({, }, [, ])
Translate tabulators to the corresponding number of non breaking spaces
Convert everything to a monospaced font (tt tag), putting a hard break (br) on the end of each line.
Number each line, starting by 1
Surround everything with p

Prerequisites
In order to get a2html running on your machine, you need three things. gcc, the Gnu Compiler Collective flex, the Fast LEXical analyzer and make, the utility to maintain groups of programs If you're running Unix, Linux or MacOSX, you're probably all set. In case you're using Windows, please install CygWin and choose at least the three mentioned programs.

Prerequisites

In order to get a2html running on your machine, you need three things.

gcc, the Gnu Compiler Collective
flex, the Fast LEXical analyzer and
make, the utility to maintain groups of programs

If you're running Unix, Linux or MacOSX, you're probably all set. In case you're using Windows, please install CygWin and choose at least the three mentioned programs.

Installation
Installing a2html is rather straight forward. get it: a2html_0.6.zip(3039) unzip it to a directory of your choice compile it by entering `make` in the directory, where you unzipped it to that's it, you're all set.