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The HTML back end

8.1	HTML margins
8.2	HTML headers and footers
8.3	HTML Markups

Chapters

1.	Defining new functions
2.	Fontification
3.	Common Classes
4.	Scribe Library
5.	Container numbering
6.	Target format
7.	Programming Back-ends
8.	The HTML back end
9.	The LaTeX back end
10.	The MAN back end
11.	Bibliography
12.	Embedding Scribe into Bigloo
13.	Scribe Apache module
14.	Classes, Functions and Variables
15.	Bibliography

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This chapter presents the specific variables that are provided by the HTML back end. Setting this variables enables customization of the produced HTML file. For instance, it enables to change the HTML markups used to render the sections titles or to emphasize a portion of the text.

HTML documents may have a left and a right margin. This is controled by two variables.

*scribe-html-left-margin* Scribe variable *scribe-html-right-margin* Scribe variable The value of this variable can be #f which means that no margin must be emitted, or a function of no argument that makes the margin.

8.2 HTML headers and footers

HTML may use specific headers and footers.

*scribe-html-header*

Scribe variable

An expression that represent the header of the produced HTML documents.

An expression that represent the footer of the produced HTML documents.

Each of the variables presented in this section must be bound to a function of no argument. These functions must write on the standard output channel an HTML sequence. For instance, the standard definitions for *scribe-html-bold-start* and *scribe-html-bold-stop* are:

(define *scribe-html-bold-start* #unspecified)
(define *scribe-html-bold-stop* #unspecified)