Note Studio

Tips on using Note Studio to write a wepage

Because of its web-like nature, Note Studio can be particularly useful for creating web pages.

There are 3 options for generating webpages with Note Studio

1. Use the standard HTML output, and use the standard note studio stylesheet
2. Use the standard HTML output, and use your own customised stylesheet.
3. Export to an XML file, and then convert to HTML using a XSLT file.

Using standard HTML with the notestudio stylesheet

This is the easiest way to export a book to the web, but it provides the least flexibility.

1. Open the book
2. Chose export book from the book menu.
3. Set the filetype to be HTML
4. Move to the directory that you want the HTML to be in.
5. Type a dummy filename in, and click OK

The book will now be in the chosen directory, starting from Home_Page.html

Using standard HTML with your own customised stylesheet

Whilst almost as easy as the first option, this option provides quite a bit more customisation.

1. Open the book
2. Chose export book from the book menu.
3. Set the filetype to be HTML
4. Move to the directory that you want the HTML to be in.
5. Type a dummy filename in, and click OK

In the chosen directory, there is a file called notestudio.css

By altering this file, you can customise the style of the HTML to be suitable for your needs.

After changing the CSS file, if you re-export the book into the same directory, Note Studio will detect the CSS file has changed, and will not overwrite your changes.

• For more information on CSS, please check out http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

Using XML output with an XSLT file

If you need ultimate flexibility in creating a webpage, then this is the option for you.

It is considerably more complicated than the first 2 options, but provides a lot more flexibility in how the HTML looks.

1. Open the book
2. Chose export book from the book menu.
3. Set the filetype to be XML
4. Move to the directory that you want the HTML to be in.
5. Type in a filename for the XML, and click OK
6. Copy an XSLT file into the directory
7. Install a program that can translate XML files(Such as Saxon)
8. From the dos prompt, run the translator on the XML file.

• For an example website generated using this option, just look at the current page you are reading right now! All the Note Studio parts of the dogMelon website were generated from Note Studio using this last option.
• For more information on XSLT, please visit http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
• For a free XSLT translator, please check out Saxon