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The first software I built was Fm2HTML, that took FrameMaker documents and converted them to HTML. This is the early days of the Web. (social.vivaldi.net)

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The first software I built was Fm2HTML, that took FrameMaker documents and converted them to HTML. This is the early days of the Web.

The conversion was for multi-file documents, which included links, images, tables, indexes and more. The structure of the original document was preserved, as was a lot of the formatting.

FrameMaker was widely used in the research community at the time. It was a very powerful tool for writing books and longer documents.

https://www.w3.org/Tools/fm2html.htm

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

@[email protected] is that FOSS? also, is it still alive? :amazing:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

@[email protected]

This code has not been updated since I stopped working on it in 1994 and started working on Opera instead.

At the time FLOSS was not even a term. The code was open. You would typically compile it yourself. I believe that if you wanted to use it commercially, you would have had to contact Televerkets Forskningsinstitutt, which I was working for at the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Better URL: https://www.w3.org/Tools/fm2html.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

@[email protected]

Thanks.