Phoenix 0.1.8 Announcement

Announcing Phoenix (alpha release 0.1.8):
A Genuinely-WYSIWYG HTML Editor

(You don't have to know what HTML is to use this editor.)

Features

X-windows
Supports character styles:
ADDRESS,
B, CITE, CODE, DFN, EM, I, KBD, SAMP, STRONG, TT, U, and VAR.
Can Copy & Paste text -- whether plain, heading, anchor, and/or styled -- the attributes are retained.
Ability to copy and paste text from other applications.
Copy & Paste of Images/Ismaps from web pages is as easy as copying text.
Easy Anchor Editing -- no need to type the URL in most cases.
Full Forms-Browsing Capabilities

Availability

Phoenix is available by HTTP or anonymous FTP. Fetch

ftp://www.bsd.uchicago.edu/pub/phoenix/README.html

for access via HTTP, pick it up via anonymous FTP on www.bsd.uchicago.edu in the /pub/phoenix/ directory, or e-mail L-Newberg@UChicago.EDU for more information.

Changes in Version 0.1.8

Phoenix is now officially covered by a GNU General Public License.

Grays out buttons and menus in view HTML mode to signal that they are unavailable.
The directory containing phoenix.server no longer needs to be on your path.
Lowered the number of height readjustments for text in title box and web page region. Eliminated infinite loop that sometimes occured.
Forward button and menu item added.
Scrollbar vanishes when its not necessary.
Miscellaneous internal bugs fixed.

Changes in Version 0.1.7

Installation process is friendlier for more systems.

Code can now be handled by K&R and ANSI compilers.
Bourne shell now used instead of Csh.
Makefile "basename" incompatibilty fixed.

Changes in Version 0.1.6

Installation process is friendlier for more systems.

Most code is now pure ANSI C.
``CONST'' removed in favor of ``const.''
(More) cleaning up of Makefiles to make them portable.

Changes in Version 0.1.5

Phoenix doesn't crash and die on exit.
Added additional installation support for Alpha, HP, and Linux and a few other minor fixes.
Communication among Phoenix Clones (including Help menus) more robust.
Shared library support removed (temporarily).

Changes in Version 0.1.4

Removed extraneous soft link which broke the installation process.

Changes in Version 0.1.3

Can use Phoenix as an editor even if you're not directly on the Internet.
Assumes a default set of fonts if it can't discover yours via xlsfonts.
<HEAD> markup treated correctly.
Easier to compile on several platforms:
- Correctly looks for time.h and/or sys/time.h.
- ${MAKE} variable used instead of "make."

Usage

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Phoenix is brought to you by the Office of Academic Computing in The University of Chicago's Biological Science Division. We're also the proud owners of the Object-Oriented Information System, Phoenicia.

Announcing Phoenix (alpha release 0.1.8): A Genuinely-WYSIWYG HTML Editor