
  Tags Supported in HTML Help 5.1.0 BETA

This document describes the subset of HTML supported by Help.

*<A>*
Help fully supports the HREF and NAME attributes, except that:

    * Links to other files can only be relative, not absolute. So
      HREF="..\foo.htm" works but HREF="C:\foo.htm" does not
    * Double quotation marks "" must always be put around filenames and
      bookmarks e.g. HREF="foo.htm" but not HREF=foo.htm
    * references to web and email addresses are ignored.
    * DOS-style (8.3) filenames should be used. 

*<B>*
*Bold* text is displayed in bright white.

*<BODY>*
Indicates the beginning of the text to be displayed.

*<BR>*
Line break.

*<CODE>*
Code is just displayed as *Bold* text (in bright white).

*<EM>*
/Emphasised/ text, like /italicised/ text, is displayed using the color
magenta (a shade of purple).

*<H1>*
Help puts this header 1 text in *bold* and puts a thick line underneath it.

*<H2>*, *<H3>*
Header 2 and 3 text is put in bold, and a new paragraph is started.

*<HEAD>*
HTML header.

*<HR>*
Creates a horizontal rule along the screen. Only a horizontal rule
without any attributes is supported at present.

*<HTML>*
Denotes a HTML file.

*<I>*
/Italicised/ text is displayed using the color magenta (a shade of purple).

*<LI>*
A list object.

*<OL>*
At present, ordered lists are rendered as unordered lists. Embedded
lists are not supported.

*<P>*
New paragraph.

*<PRE>*
Preformatted text

*<STRONG>*
*Strong* text, like *bold* text, is displayed as bright white.

*<TITLE>*
Does nothing - yet.

*<TT>*
/TT/ text, like /italicised/ text, is displayed using the color magenta
(a shade of purple).

*<UL>*
Embedded lists are not currently supported.


  Character Entities supported in HTML Help

The following is a set of some useful character escape codes.

 &lt;    becomes <
 &gt;    becomes >
 &amp;   becomes &
 &nbsp;  becomes  
 &copy;  becomes ©
 &quot;  becomes "
 &para;  becomes ¶
 &sect;  becomes §


  General Notes on HTML Help

   1. Text is wrapped if it does not fit on the line.
   2. Tags are case insensitive, so *<A HREF="FOO.HTM">* is equivelent
      to *<a href="foo.htm">*.
   3. The maximum size for a document is 64K.
   4. Only short (8.3) file names are supported.
   5. In the future Help may distinguish between file types by filename
      extension. Therefore the *.htm* extension is recommended for HTML
      files. 

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*Copyright © 2002 Robert Platt <mailto:worldwiderob@yahoo.co.uk>*
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under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy
of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free
Documentation License" <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html>.

