Directives

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Directives

Standard Directives: what they do and their default values.

#activeURLs

If true, URLs in rendered pages become activated.

Example: If true, the URL is placed into an HTML anchor tag using the URL as both the HREF and the link text.

Value: Boolean (true or false)

Default: true

#addLineFeeds

If true, adds line feed to carriage returns in published documents.

Example: on Windows, lines are terminated by carriage return plus line feed (cr + lf) combinations.

Value: Boolean (true or false)

Defaults: false for Mac and true for Windows roots

#adrPageData "websites.x.y.z"

Provides the location of the data to be added to the fat page.

#autoParagraphs

If true, paragraphs tags (single <P> tag) are inserted in place of double returns.

Value: Boolean (true or false)

Default: false

#bgcolor, #text, #link, #vlink,#alink

Called by {bodyTag ()} and included in the <body> tag

Value: string

Defaults with the New Site command: #bgcolor = FFFFFF, #link = 0000FF, #vlink = 800080, #alink = 008000

Note: also called by {pageHeader ()}

#clayCompatibility

If true, "---" on a line by itself becomes a <HR> tag and "***" anywhere in a line sets the text style to bold until the end of the line.

Value: Boolean (true or false)

Default: false

#defaultFileName

Name of the default page which can be different than the name defined with #siteDefaultName.

Example: index, default, home

Value: String

Default: index

#directivesOnlyAtBeginning

If true, only the directives at the beginning of each object are processed (this also speeds up rendering time).

Value: Boolean (true or false)

Default: true

#dropNonAlphas

If true, non-alphabetic characters are dropped from file names.

Value: Boolean (true or false)

Default: false

#expandGlossaryItems

If false, glossary items (quoted strings) in pages will not be expanded.

Value: Boolean (true or false)

Default: true

#fileExtension

Extension appended to file names.

Example: .html

Value: String

Default: .html

#glossary table

A subtable used as an organizational tool.

Contains the text substitutions called when Frontier renders a page.

#glossary directive

Add this directive to a page if you need a specific glossary for that page.

#glossary "websites.x.y.z"

#images

A subtable used as an organizational tool.

Contains the images Frontier will render when called by the imageRef or bgImageRef macros.

#imageFileCreator

Creator of image files when written to disk.

Example: MSIE for MS Explorer image files

Platform: Mac only

Value: String

#includeMetaCharset

If false, meta charset tag not included.

Value: Boolean (true or false)

Default: false

#includeMetaGenerator

If true a generator meta tag is added eg: <meta name="generator" content="Frontier 5.0 WinNT">

Value: Boolean (true or false)

Default: true

#indirectTemplate

If true, template is stored in user.html.templates.

Value: Boolean (true or false)

Default: false

#isFatPage

If true the page will render as a fat page.

The fat page information is added to the end of the HTML page as a comment.

Use with #adrPageData "websites.x.y.z"

Default: false

#isoFilter

If true, page will be run through string.iso8859encode,

turning high ASCII characters into html entities.

Value: Boolean (true or false)

Default: tue

#lowerCaseFileNames

If true, filenames will be converted to all lowercase.

Value: Boolean (true or false)

Default: false

#maxFileNameLength

Maximum length of a file name, including extension.

Example: DOS 8+3 naming should be set to 12 (8 + . + 3)

Value: String

Default: 31

#pageHeader

For details see PageHeader Attribute.

Used instead of {pageHeader ()} macro to provide more control over the contents in the <head> tag.

#prefs

A subtable used as an organizational tool. Directives for a site can be contained within the #prefs table.

Directives in the #prefs table do not need to be prefaced by a #, it will be assumed.

#processMacros

If true, curly brace macros {....} are processed

Value: Boolean (true or false)

Default: true

#renderOutlineWith

Used with Outlines, calls the renderer "nameOfRenderer" stored in user.html.renderers.

Note: Renders can also be stored in the #tools table of the site containing the outline to be rendered.

Syntax: #renderOutlineWith "nameOfRenderer"

#siteDefaultName

Used with {outlineSite ()} and names the default page for the site.

Example: index, default, home

Default: index

Note: If #siteDefaultName is not defined #defaultFileName (or the value in user.html.prefs.defaultFilename) is used.

#template

Web sites pages are rendered with a template which controls the layout.

The most basic template will include:

{pageHeader()}

{bodytext}

{pagefooter()}

#textFileCreator

Creator code of text files when written to disk.

Examples: MSIE for MS Explorer, MOSS for Netscape, R*ch for BBEdit, NISI for Nisus Writer

Platform: Mac only

Value: String4

Default: MOSS

#title

Generally included in every outline or wp object as the first directive listed.

Used by the glossary to create relative links.

Used by {pageHeader(title)} to create the <title> tag

#tools

A subtable used as an organizational tool.

Files in the #tools table are not rendered when a site is Published.

#useImageCache

If true, only new images are written to disk.

Value: Boolean (true or false)

Default: false

#useGlossaryPatcher

Used with Next/Prev and must be true for Next/Prev to work.

Value: Boolean (true or false)

Default: true


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