User Guide

SCoT is a tool that generates HTML documents from simple text files. It is designed to manage contents without using a database or other server software. Instead you place your contents into text files in a certain structure on your file system. You will only need a text editor to write and a file manager to administrate your contents.

To create HTML documents it is rather usefull to know about the HTML concerning standards of the W3C . A newbie to that stuff might want to read tutorials about HTML and CSS. I, personally, am rather fond of SelfHTML .

Installation
Tells you how to set up SCoT on your machine.
Configuration
Tells you how to configure SCoT to get the best out of it.
Running SCoT
Tells you how to use SCoT from the command line which is the most usual way.
The Idea
Getting an idea of how to organize your contents .
Creating a SCoT Project
Newbies might want to read how to create a project and find out how to start and go further on step by step.
Writing Content
Content consists of lines and commandos. This section describes how to write them .
The Content Order
Not only the order to process content but some more overall details of the resulting HTML document are described in here.
The Base Address
Usually the links and imported resources are addressed relatively. But from time to time it may be necessary to set a base address for all HTML doucments.
Glossary
Short description of terms used around SCoT.

The following image gives an overview of how the web author works with SCoT and all other components. Usage of Ant is possible but not mandatory.

Black Box Overview