Initialization File
A couple of changes for any version after 4.0:
  • The XML initialization can be free formated; newlines are now allowed inside of tags
  • .t2trc, t2t.rc, .t2trc.xml, t2t.rc.xml are all legal names. Eventually, the .xml ones will be phased out.

Here is an example t2t.rc file. 

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<t2t>
    <general>
        <delim>:</delim>
        <title>Round 4</title>
        <skipFields>zz</skipFields>
        <squeeze>true</squeeze>
        <header>true</header>
        <overwrite>true</overwrite>
        <quiet>true</quiet>
        <verbose>false</verbose>
        <equal>false</equal>
        <addParagraph>true</addParagraph>
        <oneTable>false</oneTable>
        <headerFile>/home/steve/header</headerFile>
        <top>/home/steve/preamble</top>
        <bottom>/home/steve/html/list/footer</bottom>
        <emptyRowCellAtt>class = "emptyRow"</emptyRowCellAtt>
        <cellAlignments>left</cellAlignments>
        <cellWidths>50</cellWidths>
        <nbsp>true<nbsp>
        <limit>4<limit>
    </general>

    <body>
        <bgcolor>#FFFFFF</bgcolor>
        <vlink>#FF0000</vlink>
        <alink>#00FF00</alink>
        <link>#0000FF</link>
        <text>#000000</text>
        <background>temp.gif</background>
    </body>

    <table>
        <ledgerColors>#D3D3D3, #FFFFFF</ledgerColors>
        <cellspacing>4</cellspacing>
        <cellpadding>2</cellpadding>
        <border>1</border>
        <width>100%</width>
        <bgcolor>#FFFFFF</bgcolor>
        <align>center</align>
        <frame>above</frame>
        <rules>none</rules>
        <hilightColumn>
            <number>2</number>
            <color>#00FF00</color>
        </hilightColumn>
    </table>

    <cell>
        <bgcolor>grey</bgcolor>
        <HeaderColor>#00FFCC</HeaderColor>
    </cell>
</t2t>

The body, cell, and table sections contain the HTML attributes for those tags. See below for the ones that are not attributes. Styling tag attributes have been deprecated in favor cascading style sheets (CSS).

General Section

Name Explanation
delim Data delimiter
title Title for the HTML document
header Create an H1 tab for the title
quiet Quiet mode
verbose Verbose mode
overwrite Controls if t2t will overwrite existing .html files
nbsp prints a &nbsp; for an empty cell
addSpace Adds 5 pixels of space around each table
equal Ensures all rows have the same number of columns
limit limits the number of columns split.
headerFile Path to file to be added in the head portion
top Path to file to be added to the top of each file
bottom Path to file to be added to the bottom of each file
emptyRowCellAtt CSS name for all the cells on an empty row
ledgerColors The alternating colors of each row
cellAlignments The alignments for each cell
cellWidths The widths of each cell
skipFields Skip any column numbers that matches this regular expression.

Table Section

Name Explanation
ledgerColors The alternating colors of each row
cellAlignments The alignments for each cell
cellWidths The widths of each cell
hilightColumn color Color of the highlighting header cell
hilightColumn number Column number to hilight

XML Format Note

The T2t distribution does not include an XML parser. I did want to force each person to install a Perl XML parser. Since an XML parser is not included, t2t parses the XML itself. Overall this is not a problem. You can use any XML editor to edit the file. You can validate the XML. I have not created a DTD or XML Schema, but either one or both could be created. The initialization file is legal XML.

Each user should edit the t2t.rc file to suit their needs. The above example lists all the currently available options. You can (and should) remove the ones that you do not use. You can either just remove the line or comment the line out.

 
Steven Scholnick

Last Updated October 22, 2007