T2t - Initialization File

Example .t2trc

		<?xml version="1.0"?>
		
		<t2t>
			<general>
				<delim>:</delim>
				<html5>true</html5>
				<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>
				<class>main</class>
				<id>1</id>
				<style>border:1</style>
				<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
html5	Output HTML5 instead of XHTML
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   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 Notes

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.