The first software I built was Fm2HTML, that took FrameMaker documents and converted them to HTML. This is the early days of the Web.
The conversion was for multi-file documents, which included links, images, tables, indexes and more. The structure of the original document was preserved, as was a lot of the formatting.
FrameMaker was widely used in the research community at the time. It was a very powerful tool for writing books and longer documents.
https://www.w3.org/Tools/fm2html.htm
#Web #internet #History #software #Research
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