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Reference Manual of the XHTML convenience library

Kurt Nørmark © normark@cs.aau.dk Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark.

LAML Source file: lib/xhtml1.0-convenience.scm

This library contains a number of convenient functions on top of the XHTML mirrors. The functions in this library are intended to be common for XHTML mirrors in LAML. Notice, however, that some of the functions will only work with HTML1.0 transitional.

The collection in this library can be regarded as personal convenience stuff. You can use it if you find it useful - or you can develop your own convenience stuff on top of the XHTML mirror library.

The collection also serves as backward compatibility functions in relation to older LAML software. Many functions in this library originally served as ad hoc Scheme markup functions. As of this library, the functions have been reimplemented on top of the XHTML libraries.

Table of Contents:
1. Basic HTML extension stuff. 5. HTML input form functions. 9. Indenting, boxing, and framing.
2. Convenience variants of the HTML mirror functions. 6. Multi column lists. 10. Alphabetical index arrays.
3. Lists and trees. 7. Images and image file access. 11. Substring Coloring.
4. Table functions. 8. Non-standard Media Stuff. 12. Miscelaneous

Alphabetic index:
a-name (a-name name) Name the current place by means of an a tag with name attribute
a-self-ref (a-self-ref . attributes) A 'self referential' use of the a (anchor) element.
a-tag (a-tag url . optional-parameter-list) Return an a tag constructructed from the URL and the anchor.
a-tag-target (a-tag-target url anchor target) A variant of a tag which supports a target attribute of the a-tag (where in browser to show the result).
alphabetic-link-array (alphabetic-link-array) Return an 'array' of letter links to #letter
alphabetic-link-array-1 (alphabetic-link-array-1 target-file-prefix alphabet . emphasis-letter) Return an 'array' of letter links to (string-append target-file-prefix "-" letter ".html") for all letters in alphabet.
box (box text [width]) Embed text in an invisible (border-less) table with one cell.
br-list (br-list lst) Return a flat list, separate by breaks.
brl (brl lst) A convenient alias for br-list
center-frame (center-frame indentation text) Embed text into a centered frame
character-entity (character-entity x) If x is a number return a numbered character entity.
checkbox (checkbox name . checked) Return an input tag of type checkbox.
color-frame (color-frame text color) Embed text into a color frame.
color-frame-width (color-frame-width text color width) As color-frame, but this function supports and extra widht parameter.
colorize-substrings (colorize-substrings str region-color-list) This is an advanced function which make font changes to substrings of str.
copyright copyright The copyright character entity
copyright-owner (copyright-owner x) Embed x into a copyright indication
definition-list (definition-list lst) Make a definition list.
embed (embed xml-language . attributes) The non-standard embed element.
file-upload (file-upload name) Return an input tag of type file.
font-1 (font-1 size color x) Returns a font tag with size and color attributes.
font-color (font-color color x) Like font, but only supports color.
font-rise (font-rise str base-size) Return a html fonted version of str.
font-size (font-size size x) Like font, but only supports size.
form-1 (form-1 cgi-url x) Embed x in to form of kind POST, which activates url upon form completion.
frame-1 (frame-1 text) Shown text in a simple frame.
frame-width (frame-width text width) Like frame, but with an extra width parameter.
h (h i x) Returns h tags, h1 if i=1, h2 if i=2, etc.
hidden-line (hidden-line name value) Return an input tag of type hidden.
horizontal-space horizontal-space Return n space special characters
html-appender (html-appender element) Generate a function which appends element.
html-protect (html-protect str) Protect HTML tags such that an HTML document can be shown verbatim in a browser.
image-file (image-file file-name) Return the full path/address of the image file named file-name.
image-file-path (image-file-path) Determination of the actual file path to images in html files.
img-0 (img-0 file-name . width) Return an img tag, in which a file on file-name is presented.
img-with-border (img-with-border file-name . width) A variant of img which presents an image with a border
in-danish (in-danish str) Translate the Danish letters in str to a string with appropriate use of HTML character entities.
indent-pixels indent-pixels Indent text with p pixels
js-call (js-call function-name parameters) Return a Javascript calling form, given function function-name and parameters.
js-string-array (js-string-array elements) Return a manifest javascript array given its elements
kn-internet-image-path kn-internet-image-path The URL where the author of this library keeps a number of images (icons).
laml-home-button (laml-home-button extra-level text-or-image . start-dir) Return an HTML a tag (anchor) which links to the LAML software home page via an small gif icon.
laml-top-banner (laml-top-banner) Return the standard LAML top banner with time of generation, copyright, and home icon
left-middle-right-banner (left-middel-right-banner left middle right [distribution-percentages]) Return a banner (represented as a table) with left, middle, and right justified contributions.
left-right-banner (left-right-banner left right [distribution-percentages]) Return a banner (represented as a table) with left and right justified contributions.
lis lis A spacy variant of the HTML li element.
mail-link (mail-link email-adr [anchor-name subject]) Return a mail link by means of the mailto facility in an a tag.
mini-menu (mini-menu mini-menu-list dark-color) Makes a horizontal menu in terms of a table with links.
multi-column-list (multi-column-list columns elements total-width) Return a multi-column list, row major, with columns columns.
multipart-form (multipart-form cgi-url target-directory target-directory-url x) Embed x into a multipart form.
n-column-list (n-column-list n elements total-width) Return an n column list, column-major, of the element list (second parameter).
narrow (narrow separator-fn width . contents-list) Present the contents-list, which is a list of elements, in a narrow column of width, separated with activations of separator-fn.
narrow-with-pixels (narrow-with-pixels p text) Show text in a column, narrowed from both left and right with p pixels
password-line (password-line name size value) Return an input tag of type password.
radio-button (radio-button value group-name . checked) Return an input tag of type radio.
reset (reset value) Return an input tag of type reset.
select-1 (select-1 name value-list contents-list . selected-value) Return a select tag, defining multiple choice menu.
set-image-file-path! (set-image-file-path! mode) Set the image-file-access variable.
space (space n) Return n space special characters (horizontal space)
submit (submit value [name]) Return an input tag of type submit.
table-0 (table-0 list-of-list . optional-parameter-list) Return a table with elements from list-of-list.
table-1 (table-1 border cell-width-list cell-color-list-1 list-of-list . optional-parameter-list) A more versatile variant of table-0.
table-2 (table-2 border cell-width-list cell-color-list-1 header-list list-of-list) A variant of table and table-1 which supports a header row.
table-3 (table-3 border cell-width-list list-of-list . optional-parameter-list) A transparant variant of table-1 - without specification of a column color list.
table-4 (table-4 border cell-width-list row-color-list list-of-list . optional-parameter-list) A variant of table-1 with a row color list instead of a column color list.
table-5 (table-5 border cell-width-list list-of-color-list list-of-list . optional-parameter-list) A variant of table-4 that allows individual background coloring of table cells.
text-line (text-line name size value) Return an input tag of type text.
textarea-1 (textarea-1 name rows cols contents) Return a textarea form.
two-column-list (two-column-list elements total-width) Return a two column list, column major.
ul-tree (ul-tree tree) Show tree as an indented, bulleted list.
vertical-space (vertical-space n) Return n vertical spaces, i.e., n instances of the p tag.
when-modified when-modified Return a string that describes the 'last modfied' or 'page created' time.


1 Basic HTML extension stuff.
In this section we implement mirrors of HTML stuff such as comment and character entities. Also there are a number of convenient white space functions (horizontal and vertical). As a special, but very useful function, we include an html-protect function which provides for presentation of verbatim HTML documents in a browser. There is also some basic javascript support in this section.

character-entity
Form (character-entity x)
Description If x is a number return a numbered character entity. If x is a symbol og string, return a named character entity.
See also Scheme source file character-entity

copyright
Form copyright
Description The copyright character entity
See also Scheme source file copyright

space
Form (space n)
Description Return n space special characters (horizontal space)
See also Scheme source file space

horizontal-space
Form horizontal-space
Description Return n space special characters
See also Scheme source file horizontal-space

vertical-space
Form (vertical-space n)
Description Return n vertical spaces, i.e., n instances of the p tag.
See also Scheme source file vertical-space

html-protect
Form (html-protect str)
Description Protect HTML tags such that an HTML document can be shown verbatim in a browser. Transliterate angle brackets in str to the particular html character entities. In normal XML-in-LAML you should not use this function. Only use in the rare cases where HTML markup is handled as text.
See also Scheme source file html-protect
Note The intended functionality of html-protect is integrated in every XML-in-LAML mirror function due to the use of the standard HTML transformation table.

in-danish
Form (in-danish str)
Description Translate the Danish letters in str to a string with appropriate use of HTML character entities.
See also Scheme source file in-danish

js-call
Form (js-call function-name parameters)
Description Return a Javascript calling form, given function function-name and parameters. Returns a string of the form: function-name(parameters). This function adds commas between the actual Javascript parameters.
See also Scheme source file js-call

js-string-array
Form (js-string-array elements)
Description Return a manifest javascript array given its elements
See also Scheme source file js-string-array


2 Convenience variants of the HTML mirror functions.
The functions in this section are either quite close to the HTML mirror functions or very simple.

a-tag
Form (a-tag url . optional-parameter-list)
Description Return an a tag constructructed from the URL and the anchor. If no anchor is provided uses the url as anchor text.
See also Scheme source file a-tag

a-tag-target
Form (a-tag-target url anchor target)
Description A variant of a tag which supports a target attribute of the a-tag (where in browser to show the result).
See also Scheme source file a-tag-target

a-name
Form (a-name name)
Description Name the current place by means of an a tag with name attribute
See also Scheme source file a-name

a-self-ref
Form (a-self-ref . attributes)
Description A 'self referential' use of the a (anchor) element. Supply the 'href attribute, which also becomes the textual contents of the a element.
Attributes
Required: *
href * A URL.
See also Scheme source file a-self-ref

mail-link
Form (mail-link email-adr [anchor-name subject])
Description Return a mail link by means of the mailto facility in an a tag.
See also Scheme source file mail-link

h
Form (h i x)
Description Returns h tags, h1 if i=1, h2 if i=2, etc. If i is higher than 6, use size 6.
See also Scheme source file h

font-1
Form (font-1 size color x)
Description Returns a font tag with size and color attributes.
Parameters size A number between 1 and 6, or the symbol normal (giving size 3).
color A color as accepted by the function rgb-color-encoding.
See also Scheme source file font-1
applied function rgb-color-encoding

font-size
Form (font-size size x)
Description Like font, but only supports size. size is a number and color is a rgb list of three, decimal integers or a color symbol.
See also Scheme source file font-size

font-color
Form (font-color color x)
Description Like font, but only supports color. color is a rgb list of three, decimal integers
See also Scheme source file font-color

html-appender
Form (html-appender element)
Description Generate a function which appends element. As an example use, (html-appender (p)) is a function of one parameter, which appends a p tag to the argument of the function.
See also Scheme source file html-appender

font-rise
Form (font-rise str base-size)
Description Return a html fonted version of str. Initial letter is sized base-size+1. The rest is size base-size. Returns a list, not an ast. If rendered directly, use render-1.
See also Scheme source file font-rise


3 Lists and trees.
In this section there are various convenient functions which renders lists and trees.

br-list
Form (br-list lst)
Description Return a flat list, separate by breaks. The parameter lst is a list of items. In this version, returns a list, which cannot be rendered directly. However, render-1 works on the result.
See also Scheme source file br-list

brl
Form (brl lst)
Description A convenient alias for br-list
See also Scheme source file brl
see also br-list

definition-list
Form (definition-list lst)
Description Make a definition list. lst is a list of lists. Each inner list must be of length two, dt and dd respectively. I.e. definition terms and the defintion proper, resp. As a special case supported, the inner list can be of lenght one, in which case the dd is considered empty.
See also Scheme source file definition-list

ul-tree
Form (ul-tree tree)
Description Show tree as an indented, bulleted list. A tree is a list. The first element of the list is the root. The tail of the list is the list of subtrees. A subtree, which is a leaf, can be given as a string (cdata) or a contents element.
 Example   (a (b c d) (e (f g) h)) a /   \ b     e / \   / \ c  d  f   h | g 
See also Scheme source file ul-tree

lis
Form lis
Description A spacy variant of the HTML li element.
See also Scheme source file lis


4 Table functions.
In this section there is a number of table functions which maps a list of rows (list of lists) to an HTML table. Older LAML software depends on these. I do not recommend use of these functions in new software. Instead, use the HTML table mirror function directly.

table-0
Form (table-0 list-of-list . optional-parameter-list)
Description Return a table with elements from list-of-list. The sublists of list represent the rows in the table. The border is an optional parameter. Corresponds to the old function table in the ad hoc html library.
Parameters list-of-list the list of table row lists.
See also Scheme source file table-0

table-1
Form (table-1 border cell-width-list cell-color-list-1 list-of-list . optional-parameter-list)
Description A more versatile variant of table-0. A variant of table-0 which requires border (an integer, 0 if no border), a list of cell widths, a list of column colors, the table contents (list-of-list - list of rows), and an optional valign parameter. The valign parameter corresponds to the HTML valign attribute, the possible value of which are "top", "middle", "bottom", and "baseline" (a string).
See also Scheme source file table-1

table-2
Form (table-2 border cell-width-list cell-color-list-1 header-list list-of-list)
Description A variant of table and table-1 which supports a header row.
See also Scheme source file table-2

table-3
Form (table-3 border cell-width-list list-of-list . optional-parameter-list)
Description A transparant variant of table-1 - without specification of a column color list. The cell color becomes identical with the background.
See also Scheme source file table-3

table-4
Form (table-4 border cell-width-list row-color-list list-of-list . optional-parameter-list)
Description A variant of table-1 with a row color list instead of a column color list. The length of row-color-list must be the number of rows in the table.
See also Scheme source file table-4

table-5
Form (table-5 border cell-width-list list-of-color-list list-of-list . optional-parameter-list)
Description A variant of table-4 that allows individual background coloring of table cells. The parameter list-of-color-list is a list of row colors, whereas row-color-list in table-4 is a fixed list of colors that apply to a row. Thus, the structure of list-of-color-list is identical to the structure of list-of-list.
See also Scheme source file table-5
similar function table-4

left-middle-right-banner
Form (left-middel-right-banner left middle right [distribution-percentages])
Description Return a banner (represented as a table) with left, middle, and right justified contributions. The optional parameter distribution-percentages gives the relative sizes of the left, middle and right fields.
Parameters left The left portion of the banner.
middle The middel portion of the banner.
right The right portion of the banner.
distribution-percentages A list of three integers (percent numbers) the sum of which is expected to be 100. Defaults to '(33 34 33).
See also Scheme source file left-middle-right-banner

left-right-banner
Form (left-right-banner left right [distribution-percentages])
Description Return a banner (represented as a table) with left and right justified contributions. The optional parameter distribution-percentages gives the relative sizes of the left and right fields.
Parameters left The left portion of the banner.
right The right portion of the banner.
distribution-percentages A list of three integers (percent numbers) the sum of which is expected to be 100. Defaults to '(50 50).
See also Scheme source file left-right-banner

laml-top-banner
Form (laml-top-banner)
Description Return the standard LAML top banner with time of generation, copyright, and home icon
See also Scheme source file laml-top-banner

mini-menu
Form (mini-menu mini-menu-list dark-color)
Description Makes a horizontal menu in terms of a table with links. The table is made on the basis of parameter mini-menu-list, which is a list of menu entries. A menu entry is a list of anchor-text and URL pairs (lists of two strings). Dark-color must be some dark color.
See also Scheme source file mini-menu


5 HTML input form functions.
A number of convenient functions which supports the work with HTML input forms.

form-1
Form (form-1 cgi-url x)
Description Embed x in to form of kind POST, which activates url upon form completion. Corresponds to the old function form in the ad hoc html library.
See also Scheme source file form-1

multipart-form
Form (multipart-form cgi-url target-directory target-directory-url x)
Description Embed x into a multipart form. Activate cgi-url when the form is submitted. A multipart form is used for file uploading. Files are written into target-directory when uploaded. The parameter target-directory-url gives the URL of the directory, in which the file is uploaded. This is used for subsequent WWW retrival of the file.
See also Scheme source file multipart-form
accompanying function multipart-decode

checkbox
Form (checkbox name . checked)
Description Return an input tag of type checkbox. The name is a string or symbol which identifies the checkbox. Checked is an optional boolean parameter. If checked is #t, the checkbox will be checked initially. Returns the string true to the form processing application if checked.
See also Scheme source file checkbox

radio-button
Form (radio-button value group-name . checked)
Description Return an input tag of type radio. checked is a boolean parameter, i.e. true or false (in Scheme sense).
See also Scheme source file radio-button

text-line
Form (text-line name size value)
Description Return an input tag of type text. The name is a string of symbol which identifies the text line. Size is the text line width in character positions. Value is the initial value on the text line.
See also Scheme source file text-line

hidden-line
Form (hidden-line name value)
Description Return an input tag of type hidden. The name is a string or symbol which identifies the hidden line. Value is the string contents of the hidden line.
See also Scheme source file hidden-line

file-upload
Form (file-upload name)
Description Return an input tag of type file. Such an input tag is used for file uploading. The name of the uploading is name.
See also Scheme source file file-upload

password-line
Form (password-line name size value)
Description Return an input tag of type password. The name is a string of symbol which identifies the password. Size is the line width in character positions. Value is the initial contents of the password field (not very useful...).
See also Scheme source file password-line

submit
Form (submit value [name])
Description Return an input tag of type submit. Renders a button. Value is the string label of the button. If the optional parameter name is given it identifies a particular submit button with a name, value pair in the submitted data.
See also Scheme source file submit

reset
Form (reset value)
Description Return an input tag of type reset. Value is the string label of the button.
See also Scheme source file reset

select-1
Form (select-1 name value-list contents-list . selected-value)
Description Return a select tag, defining multiple choice menu. Name is a string or symbol which identifies the selection. Value-list is a list of the values to be returned upon selection. Contents-list is the list of contents to be shown in the menu. Selected-value is an optional value, which is to be selected initially. This value should be a member of value-list. Corresponds to the old function select in the ad hoc html library.
See also Scheme source file select-1

textarea-1
Form (textarea-1 name rows cols contents)
Description Return a textarea form. Rows is the number of rows of the text area. Cols is the number of columns measured in characters. Contents is the initial contents of the text area. Corresponds to the old function textarea in the ad hoc html library.
See also Scheme source file textarea-1


6 Multi column lists.
The functions in this section return multi-column lists. Given a list of elements the functions return a table in which the elements have been arranged in a number of columns. The first function, multi-column-list, arranges the elements in row major order. The two last functions arrange the the elements in column major order. These are the most advanced functions due to the way tables are organized in HTML.

multi-column-list
Form (multi-column-list columns elements total-width)
Description Return a multi-column list, row major, with columns columns. Columns (the first parameter) must be at least 2. The total width (sum of column widths) is given as the last parameter. Internally, a HTML table with zero border is formed and returned.
See also Scheme source file multi-column-list

two-column-list
Form (two-column-list elements total-width)
Description Return a two column list, column major. total-width (sum of column widths) is the width you want the resulting table to have. Internally, a HTML table with zero border is formed and returned.
See also Scheme source file two-column-list

n-column-list
Form (n-column-list n elements total-width)
Description Return an n column list, column-major, of the element list (second parameter). This is a generalized version of two-column-list. total-width (sum of column widths) is the width you want the resulting table to have. n is the number of columns. Internally, a HTML table with zero border is formed and returned.
See also Scheme source file n-column-list


7 Images and image file access.
The functions in this section determine how images are accessed from this and other libraries.

kn-internet-image-path
Form kn-internet-image-path
Description The URL where the author of this library keeps a number of images (icons). This variable is used if image-file-access is the symbol net.
See also Scheme source file kn-internet-image-path

image-file-path
Form (image-file-path)
Description Determination of the actual file path to images in html files. This function depends on the variable image-file-access, which MUST be defined external to this library. The value of image-file-access can be changed via the procedure set-image-file-access! One of the following symbols apply: local, parent, net, sub-directory, or fixed. Default is local. local means that images are taken from the current directory. parent means that images are tagen from ../images. sub-directory means that images are taken from ./images. fixed means that images are taken from fixed-image-directory (a variable which must be defined external to this library). Finally, net means that images are taken from kn-internet-image-path (a variable).
See also Scheme source file image-file-path

set-image-file-path!
Form (set-image-file-path! mode)
Description Set the image-file-access variable. mode is symbol, either local, parent, sub-directory, net, or fixed. Relative to the hmtl directory, where the target files are written.
See also Scheme source file set-image-file-path!

image-file
Form (image-file file-name)
Description Return the full path/address of the image file named file-name. Relies of the setting of the variable image-file-access via the procedure set-image-file-path! File name must include file extension
See also Scheme source file image-file

img-0
Form (img-0 file-name . width)
Description Return an img tag, in which a file on file-name is presented. An optional width parameter is supported. Corresponds to the old function img in the ad hoc html library.
See also Scheme source file img-0

img-with-border
Form (img-with-border file-name . width)
Description A variant of img which presents an image with a border
See also Scheme source file img-with-border

laml-home-button
Form (laml-home-button extra-level text-or-image . start-dir)
Description Return an HTML a tag (anchor) which links to the LAML software home page via an small gif icon. If possible, a relative URL is used as the href attribute. The parameter extra-level is an extra level to add. Normally, extra-level is 0 (zero). As an example, extra-level should be 1 in case HTML files are organized in a sub-directory relative to the laml source file. Text-or-image is either the symbol 'text or 'image, or a string. If 'text, a textual anchor is used. if 'image, a small 'laml house' is used as image. If text-or-image is a string it is a name of an image file in the laml image directory (including file name extension, excluding any file path). The optional start-dir gives the directory, in which the home button is to be placed; It defaults to (startup-directory).
See also Scheme source file laml-home-button


8 Non-standard Media Stuff.

embed
Form (embed xml-language . attributes)
Description The non-standard embed element.
Parameters xml-language The name of the XML language, to which the embed element belongs. A symbol.
attributes A property list of attributes of embed.
See also Scheme source file embed


9 Indenting, boxing, and framing.
Here is a number of functions of indentation and frame making.

indent-pixels
Form indent-pixels
Description Indent text with p pixels
See also Scheme source file indent-pixels

narrow-with-pixels
Form (narrow-with-pixels p text)
Description Show text in a column, narrowed from both left and right with p pixels
See also Scheme source file narrow-with-pixels

frame-1
Form (frame-1 text)
Description Shown text in a simple frame. Has nothing to do with HTML frames. Corresponds to the old function frame in the ad hoc html library.
See also Scheme source file frame-1

box
Form (box text [width])
Description Embed text in an invisible (border-less) table with one cell. The optional parameter, width, can be used to control the width of the table cell (defaults to "*").
See also Scheme source file box

narrow
Form (narrow separator-fn width . contents-list)
Description Present the contents-list, which is a list of elements, in a narrow column of width, separated with activations of separator-fn.
See also Scheme source file narrow

color-frame
Form (color-frame text color)
Description Embed text into a color frame. It is the background which is colored.
See also Scheme source file color-frame

color-frame-width
Form (color-frame-width text color width)
Description As color-frame, but this function supports and extra widht parameter. This is an integer: the with of the frame in pixels.
See also Scheme source file color-frame-width

frame-width
Form (frame-width text width)
Description Like frame, but with an extra width parameter. This is an integer: the with of the frame in pixels.
See also Scheme source file frame-width

center-frame
Form (center-frame indentation text)
Description Embed text into a centered frame
See also Scheme source file center-frame


10 Alphabetical index arrays.
The alphabetic index arrays are useful for presentation of alphabets linking to separate pages in a large index.

alphabetic-link-array
Form (alphabetic-link-array)
Description Return an 'array' of letter links to #letter
See also Scheme source file alphabetic-link-array

alphabetic-link-array-1
Form (alphabetic-link-array-1 target-file-prefix alphabet . emphasis-letter)
Description Return an 'array' of letter links to (string-append target-file-prefix "-" letter ".html") for all letters in alphabet. This is a generalized version of alphabetic-link-array. target-file-prefix is a prefix of the file names, in which the index files are located. alphabet is a list of letters, for which to generate index links from the alphabet arrays. Some letters may be missing from the alphabet compared with a complete alphabet. emphasis-letter is an optional letter which we emphasize in the link array
See also Scheme source file alphabetic-link-array-1


11 Substring Coloring.
The function colorize-substring in this section is able to colorize specified substrings of a given string.

colorize-substrings
Form (colorize-substrings str region-color-list)
Description This is an advanced function which make font changes to substrings of str. Surround substrings of str, as specified by the third parameter, in font tags. Region-color-list is a list of coloring descriptors.

Each color descriptor is of the form: (from-string to-string color face multiplicity).

Face and multiplicity are optional. From-string and to-strings delimits and identifies a substring of str to colorize etc. color is a list of three integers: a rgb list. We support the following face symbols: italic, bold, typewriter, underlined, plain (default bold). Multiplicity is an integer telling how many times to to attempt the colorization on str (default 1).

NB: In strange situations, the fontification of an early region-color-element may affect the searching for latter region-color-elements. This is not an error, but a consequence of the way font tags are puted into str.

See also Scheme source file colorize-substrings


12 Miscelaneous

copyright-owner
Form (copyright-owner x)
Description Embed x into a copyright indication
See also Scheme source file copyright-owner

when-modified
Form when-modified
Description Return a string that describes the 'last modfied' or 'page created' time. This abstraction is an XML-in-LAML abstraction which accepts the attributes updated-as-of or new-as-of. If the updated-as-of attribute is present, the last modfied string is returned. If the new-as-of attribute is present, the page created string is returned. Else the empty string is returned
Attributes
Required: *
updated-as-of The attribute value is a string of the form "year-month-day"
new-as-of The attribute value is a string of the form "year-month-day"
Examples (when-modified) => ""
(when-modified 'new-as-of "2007-3-15") => "Page created: Thursday, March 15, 2007"
(when-modified 'updated-as-of "2007-3-15") => "Last modified: Thursday, March 15, 2007"
(when-modified 'new-as-of "2007-3-15" 'updated-as-of "2007-3-15") => "Last modified: Thursday, March 15, 2007"
See also Scheme source file when-modified
similar function in time.scm when-generated

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