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Last change on this file since 11156 was 11155, checked in by jrm21, 18 years ago

removed all httpiconh* images for the titles, we now use CSS-formatted
text instead.

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3## Introduction to customising the appearance of a Greenstone Collection.
4##
5## You will need to know some basic HTML coding to edit this file.
6##
7## This file overrides some of the default macros used by greenstone. I've
8## tried to explain what each custom macro does, so hopefully it is
9## straight-forward. I'm sure it looks a little daunting at first, but the
10## use of macros gives you lots of flexibility for modifying pages, once
11## you get the hang of it.
12
13## -- John McPherson, 18 June 2003
14
15######################################################
16## General comments and hints
17
18## In these macro files, the '#' is the start of a comment. Greenstone will
19## ignore everything after a '#' until the end of the line, unless it
20## is part of a macro.
21
22## In the file gsdl/etc/main.cfg, add this file (garish.dm) to the
23## "macrofiles" list so that greenstone starts including this file.
24## (You can add a "\" at the end of the line to continue onto the next one.)
25## You could also have a look at the "yourhome.dm" macro file for
26## customising the main home page.
27
28## Every page action in greenstone has a name. We call it a "package".
29## So the default action is the "about" package. (This is the p=about cgi
30## argument). Other common actions are "document" and "help".
31## If a macro isn't found that is specific to that action, then greenstone
32## will fall back to macros defined in the "Global" package.
33## All macros in this file belong to whichever package was the most recently
34## mentioned one, with a line such as "package Global".
35
36## macros can have optional parameters, that make them more specific.
37## For example, you could have _macro_ {general case} as well as
38## _macro_ [c=garish] {For garish only} for when the "c" argument (which means
39## the collection) is set to "garish".
40
41## Don't refer to a macro's name inside the same macro, otherwise greenstone
42## will go into a recursive loop printing out the macro...
43
44## I've put HTML comments like <!-- end of custom header --> in the macros
45## so that you can see them when you do "view source" on a web page, to
46## help see the effect of changes of these macros.
47
48## _httpimg_ is a macro that expands to the correct directory where images
49## are stored. I suggest you make a subdirectory in the images directory
50## specific for your collection. Or create a directory "gsdl/images/custom"
51## for all your customisations.
52
53## The macros below modify the appearance of a specific greenstone collection.
54## It makes all the pages include a style-sheet, so that you can put
55## html-related appearance stuff (such as font colours and faces) in there,
56## rather than editing the macros for each piece of text.
57## mozilla has excellent CSS support - Netscape 4 and IE both have
58## incomplete implementations, but mostly work with the simple CSS I've used
59## here as a demonstration.
60##
61## Edit the file images/garish/style.css to change the colours and fonts.
62
63
64##############################################################################
65package Global
66##############################################################################
67## default macros - can be overridden by specific packages. The normal versions
68## of these macros are in the file base.dm (and in the language-specific
69## macro files such as english.dm and french.dm)
70
71
72## These 2 macros are used for highlighting text that matched a query when
73## displaying a document. The default is to set the background to yellow.
74##
75## Note - this is a joke. Please don't ever use the blink tag in real life :)
76#_starthighlight_ [c=garish] {<blink>}
77#_endhighlight_ [c=garish] {</blink>}
78
79
80## imagespacer - this is what goes between the search button and the
81## classifier buttons in the navigation bar. The default is the
82## horizontal green bar. You can put any html in here, and you can use
83## the _widthtspace_ macro if you want the calculated gap between the
84## buttons.
85
86## Unfortunately the internally-defined _navigationbar_ macro has no-break tags
87## around it, so we'll close the nobr tags for each button.
88## This stacks the buttons vertically, one above the other.
89#
90## Note - netscape 4.x needs a space between the br and the /
91#_imagespacer_ [c=garish] { </nobr><br /><nobr> }
92
93## If you don't like the look of that, you could comment the above line out
94## and uncomment one of the following definitions for imagespacer:
95
96## This will stack the buttons one above the other (they are in a table) with
97## our image as separator. This closes the current row and starts a new one.
98## This will use our custom image in the images/garish directory.
99
100_imagespacer_ [c=garish] { </nobr>
101<br /><img src="_httpimg_/garish/horzline.gif" width="87" height="17">
102<br />
103<nobr>
104}
105
106## This uses our custom image instead of the green bar, but otherwise has the
107## buttons horizontally, just like the default.
108#
109#_imagespacer_ [c=garish] {
110# <img src="_httpimg_/garish/horzline.gif" width="_widthtspace_"
111# height="17">
112#}
113
114
115## In the language-specific macro files, there are definitions for all of
116## the buttons. Unfortunately they have rather cryptic names. For example,
117## the "Titles A-Z" button has three macros, one for "green" (ie when it is
118## the selected button), one for "off" (when it isn't the selected page),
119## and one for "on" (when the mouse is over the image). It gets prepended
120## "httpicon", so we could override them here. Uncomment the following 3
121## macros to use the custom "title a-z" buttons (and the width macro).
122
123## make it the same as off
124
125## We also need to specify the width of the icons
126_widthttitlx_ [c=garish] {59}
127
128##
129## Note that the above is only for English - if you want custom icons for
130## other languages, you need (eg for French, which is l=fr):
131##
132
133## See english.dm for a list of graphical button names - they all start
134## with "_httpicon".
135
136
137##############################################################################
138package Style
139##############################################################################
140
141## Style package is responsible for creating the header and footer of every
142## page. This is special as there is no style action as such - the other
143## actions include macros from here.
144
145## htmlhead is used by the default _header_ macros. It prints out the
146## beginning of an html file, including the header. We can override it here
147## so that all pages will use our custom style sheet. Includes some javascript
148## functions for rollover of images.
149_htmlhead_ [c=garish] {<html>
150<head>
151 <title>_pagetitle_</title>
152 <link rel="stylesheet" href="_httpimg_/garish/style.css" type="text/css"/>
153 _globalscripts_
154 </head>
155<body>
156<!-- end of custom style:htmlhead -->
157}
158
159
160## The default _pagebanner_ includes the collection's logo, the
161## home/help/preferences buttons, and a large image that says whether
162## you're viewing the about page, the search page, the titles page, etc.
163
164## Uncomment this or define style:pagebanner to something else if you don't
165## want any of those images appearing
166
167_pagebanner_ [c=garish] {}
168
169##############################################################################
170package about
171##############################################################################
172## "about" is page you see when you first go to a collection. The default
173## versions of these macros are in the about.dm file.
174
175## content by default has the navigationbar (links to Search and classifiers),
176## and "About this collection" and "how to find information" text.
177## The _navigationbar_ macro is defined internally by the greenstone server,
178## and uses the _imagespacer_ macro defined in the Global section.
179##
180## This is similar to the default, except we don't centre the _navigationbar_
181## and we don't include a search box on the collection's about page.
182_content_ [c=garish] {
183<!-- start of custom about:content -->
184_optnavigationbar_
185
186_titleabout_
187
188<h3>_help:textsimplehelpheading_</h3>
189_help:simplehelp_
190
191<!-- end of custom about:content -->
192}
193
194
195##############################################################################
196package query
197##############################################################################
198## These are macros related to creating the search page. The default versions
199## are in the file query.dm
200
201
202## This is similar to the default, except we don't centre the _navigationbar_
203## and we've removed the green bars.
204_content_ [c=garish] {
205<!-- start of custom query:content -->
206_navigationbar_
207
208<center>
209_If_(_cgiargct_,_selectqueryform_,_queryform_)
210</center>
211_If_(_searchhistorylist_,<center>_iconsearchhistorybar_</center><br>
212<center>
213_searchhistorylist_
214</center>)
215_If_(_cgiargq_,<small>_freqmsg_ _textpostprocess_</small><br>_resultline_,)
216<br>
217<!-- end of custom query:content -->
218}
219
220
221##############################################################################
222package document
223##############################################################################
224## These are macros related to creating a document page. The default versions
225## are in the file document.dm. Note that technically, the classifiers are
226## also document pages (eg the title lists).
227
228## Note that the server overrides the _header_ macro if we are "not at the
229## top level", which basically means that when viewing a document (and not
230## a classifier), there won't be a heading.
231##
232## We can get around this by re-defining the textheader macro to output
233## what we want (instead of the normal version in document.dm). We copy the
234## Global version of _header_ (from style.dm) and add it as the content of
235## _textheader_. Note that we can't just use
236## _textheader_ [c=garish] {_Global:header_}
237## as any package specific macros (eg _pagetitle_) will no longer be used.
238
239_textheader_ [c=garish] {
240_cgihead_
241_htmlhead_(background="_httpiconchalk_")_startspacer__pagebanner_
242}
243
244
245
246
247## Override the default so that we are not centering the navigation bar.
248## The library will automatically output the document after this.
249_content_ [c=garish] {
250<!-- start of custom document:content -->
251_navigationbar_
252<p>
253<center>
254_phindclassifier_
255_collageclassifier_
256</center>
257<!-- end of custom document:content -->
258}
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