Short summary of macros for HTML

General macros

_INCLUDE(file)

includes another m4 file

_SET(variable, value)

assigns a value to a variable

_VALUE(variable)

inserts the value of a variable

_IF_DEF(variable)

inserts the following text until _ELSE or _FI/_END_IF if a variable has been defined with _SET

_IF_EQU(variable, value)

inserts the following text until _ELSE or _FI/_END_IF if the variable is equal to the value

_IF_NOT_EQU(variable, value)

inserts the following text until _ELSE or _FI/_END_IF if the variable is different from the value

_ELSE

inserts the following text if the previous _IF_DEF, _IF_EQU or _IF_NOT_EQU failed

_FI, _END_IF

ends insertion after _IF or _ELSE

HTML macros

_TITLE(title)

Header - title element

_DESCRIPTION(description)

Header - description meta-tag

_KEYWORDS(keywords)

Header - keywords meta-tag

_STYLE(style)

Header - in-line style sheet

_LINK(label, URL)

Body - link (a href)

_ANCHOR(label, tag)

Body - anchor (a name)

_MAIL(name, address)

Body - mailto:-link

_ADDR(name, address, URL)

Body - address with e-mail and home-page

<!--, -->

Comments (removed during parsing)

SU macros

_TITLE(title)

Set the document title

_SUBTITLE(title)

Set the document subtitle

_AUTHOR(name, mail, url)

Name, address and home-page url of author

_WEBMASTER(name, mail, url)

Name, address and home-page url of webmaster

_DOC_INDEX(url)

URL to TOC

_DOC_PREV(url)

URL to previous document

_DOC_NEXT(url)

URL to next document

_NAVIGATION

Navigation bar. Uses data from _DOC_INDEX, _DOC_PREV and _DOC_NEXT

_DOC_BEGIN

Start of document body

_DOC_END

End of document

Typical document

Entities