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## Authoring HTML documents

When an HTML document is generated, the suffix '_contents' is appended to the input file root. This will be the contents page for the document. A number of further HTML files will be generated, possibly a large number for a document with a large number of sections. If you are running a 16-bit Windows version of Tex2RTF, you may wish to use the truncateFilenames option to generate DOS filenames with appropriately truncated references inside the HTML files.

Tip: to reduce the number of sections generated and make the document more linear, you could define new chapter and section commands. Alias them to the normal commands in real LaTeX (edit `texhelp.sty`), and to appropriate bold/large headings (but not section commands) in the Tex2RTF initialisation file.

Each HTML section file (except for the contents page) is given browse buttons, similar to a Windows Help file: Contents, Up, Down, Back, Forward. You can set htmlBrowseButtons to specify whether bitmaps or text should be used for these buttons. On a text-only browser, the buttons will show as text even if images have been specified.

As well as the usual jumps within a document, you can use the `\urlref` command to jump to other documents. 'Advanced features' which are implemented for HTML include:

- Simple tables: `\tabular` command
- Background colour/bitmap: `\backgroundcolour` and `\backgroundimage`
- Text colour: `\textcolour` command

See HTML options for relevant initialisation file switches.