Home page for rgs

It is unclear whether anyone other than me will be in the least interested in what I have stored here, but this seems to be the most convenient way to keep the things I regularly use ready at hand. If you prefer, you can certainly return to the default SCS Home page or the CS HTTP front door page to try someone else's instead.

Recent changes

A new illustrated HTML edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Newly organized material:

Pittsburgh Weather Information

The Perl man page (formatted, heavily indexed, and finally with a searchable index)

Classic Fiction from Project Gutenberg -- re-organized for on-line reading. (A more organized listing of these works by author or title has been produced by John Ockerbloom.)

L. Frank Baum: The Wizard of Oz; The Marvelous Land of Oz
Lucy Maud Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables; Anne of Avonlea; Anne of the Island
Edgar Rice Burroughs -- Barsoom books: A Princess of Mars; The Gods of Mars; The Warlord of Mars; Thuvia, Maid of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs -- Tarzan books: Tarzan of the Apes; The Return of Tarzan; The Beasts of Tarzan; The Son of Tarzan; Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Edgar Rice Burroughs -- misc.: The Monster Men
Baroness Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel
William Shakespeare: 12th Night
Saki (H.H. Munro): The Chronicles of Clovis (non-Gutenberg etext)
Bram Stoker: Dracula (non-Gutenberg etext)
Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens): The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Lewis Carrol (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson): Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (illustrated) or, in non-illustrated form, from Tom L at Indiana University.; Alice Through the Looking Glass (from Tom L at Indiana University)

HTML manipulation tools

All of these tools were written for my own use, and fall into the "quick hack" category. I am not terribly proud of their appearance or "cleanliness", but they get the job done for me and might help you as well.

"htmlify"
This perl script uses a completely ad-hoc set of heuristics to filter "typical" text files into html files. Warnings about ambiguous constructions are printed to stderr. Although it may not produce perfect HTML output, it often comes amazingly close, and the resulting output is clean enough to be easily editable. (NOTE: This is a new version as of 2/94, featuring reasonable handling of enumerated and bulleted lists and optional support for mail headers and quotation conventions.)
Usage is
```
   htmlify [-width=n -nohyphen -<cdes>header=Hn -smtp] 
```
"html2txt"
This perl script converts "correct" HTML into text. It isn't as forgiving as the average browser, so a few apparently correct documents may have problems.
Usage is
```
    html2txt [-margin=n -linelen=n
              -{I,B,H1,H2}cap={0,1} -{I,B}bracket="string"
              -{H1,H2}under={0,1}]
```

Convenient pointers to existing info:

Stewart Clamen's Theater Listings

The Online Book Initiative repository

Roget's Thesaurus

Library of Congress catalog (real or mirrored)

The US constitution

rgs@cs.cmu.edu