automations

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Automation of routine tasks 

Many tedious tasks can be solved directly by pieces of programs embedded in an LAML document

 

• Verbatim HTML documents
  • Manual escaping of tag characters '<' and '>' is tedious

An example of programmed HTML escaping - external HTML

The example html document with manual escaping - inlined HTML

The html-protect function from the HTML4.0 convenience library.

 

• Insertion of textual material
  • Copying of textual material into slide presentations leaves us with two copies

  • The 'HTML verbatim example' illustrate the LAML approach to inclusion of textual material

 

• URL Checking
  • Check of valid URLs by manual clicking takes long time - and you easily forget to check some links

  • It is attractive to try out the targets of URLs when they appear as href attributes in anchor tags

An example with automated URL checking

Verbatim HTML document (auto) Verbatim HTML document (non-auto) URL checked document