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Creating your RTF document with Word

In order to create a hypertext document, the Word document must be properly structured with text objects and not simply constructed with local markup.
1. A text object is, for example, a format template for headings, or a numbered list or bullet list, or a table.
2. Local markup is either highlighting with bold face or italics, or layouting with TAB stops or sequences of spaces.
3. ALWAYS use a text object, if possible.
4. NEVER use local markup to create the impression of structure if a text object is available.
Only if you follow these principles will you achieve acceptable results. In a sense, the creation of a structured document is a form of applied text linguistics. After all, hypertext is text, and text is an important object of linguistic description.
5. Store your finished document in RTF format.
Finally, to produce and examine the HTML document follow these steps:
1. Open a directory display of the directory in which your RTF document is located and adjust the size and location of the display so that the RTFTOHTML desktop icon is visible.
2. Drag and drop the RTF document icon on to the RTFTOHTML desktop icon.
3. When the conversion process has finished and the DOS box is closed, refresh the directory display for your RTF document directory, and click on the Web icon with the same name (which should have an Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator icon, depending on the configuration of your computer, if you already have a browser). The file has the extension .HTM or .HTML. If you have selected a configuration option (see below) which produces more than one file, make sure you select the file with the start page; this file will have exactly the same name as your own file (but of course with the extension .HTM or .HTML instead of .RTF).
4. If you do not have a browser, you will need to copy all the .HTM or .HTML files to a floppy disk and transfer them to a computer which does have a browser in order to look at the result.


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