| Summary: | - The Curl® language combines text formatting with
programming functionality.
- The main categories of text formatting are character formats
and paragraph formats.
- Curl language text formats are similar to HTML tags, and format options
are analogous to HTML attributes.
- Text formats can be defined within a document, or formats
from an external file can be included or imported.
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This chapter steps you through some of the common tasks you will perform
in creating a document.
Curl language text formats can be considered as the equivalent of HTML tags,
with the added feature of your being able to define your own text formats.
As text formats are analogous to HTML tags, options are
analogous to attributes for HTML tags.
The ability to add and/or redefine existing text formats is very
convenient if you want to create the equivalent of HTML
stylesheets for your documents.
In this section, you begin working with a sample document that
illustrates several text formats:
- title to format the document title
- heading to provide two levels of headings
- paragraph to format paragraphs of text
Curl Inc. strongly recommends that you use
the Curl Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
to edit the Curl® language. The Source Editor
colors elements of the Curl language and formats your source
code, making it easier for you to read and review.
You can find example documents for this chapter in:
c:\build\jcurl\docs\default\examples\dguide\markup.zip
Once you have extracted files from the archive, open the file
original.curl in the IDE editor. The source code file
contains a line of code that looks something like this:
This line is called a herald. The herald indicates that the file
contains a Curl applet and specifies the version of the
Curl® API required to run the applet. See
Heralds for
other forms of the herald.
Comments in the code are indicated by
||. See
Comments for
other forms of comment syntax.
To view the applet in an Internet browser, using the Curl RTE,
select
Run File on the IDE
Run menu. The file
modified.curl contains the document as it will be after you have
completed the modifications described in
Formatting the Document.
When you have completed all these steps, your modified source code
should resemble the source code in the example file modified.curl.
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