ng2web v1.0.0

It pretty much all started with this:

 * Revision 1.1  1996/02/15 18:57:13  davep
 * Initial revision

That's from the rcs log for the source for w3ng, a tool I wrote so I could read Norton Guide files in my web browser, served by Apache, running on my GNU/Linux server in my office. The tool itself was written as a CGI tool (remember them?).

I believe I posted about this to comp.lang.clipper and pretty quickly some folk asked if it might be possible to do a version that would write the whole guide as a collection of HTML files for static hosting, rather than serving them from a cgi-bin utility. That seemed like a sensible idea and so:

 * Revision 1.1  1996/03/16 09:49:00  davep
 * Initial revision

ng2html was born.

Fast forward around a quarter of a century and I decided it would be fun to write a library for Python that reads Norton Guide files, and a tool called ng2web was the first test I wrote of it, designed as a more flexible replacement for ng2html. I've tweaked and tinkered with the tool since I first created it, but never actually "finished" it.

That's changed today. I've just released v1.0.0 of ng2web.

If turning one or more Norton Guide files into static websites seems like the sort of thing you want to be doing, take a look at the documentation.

ng2web is licensed GPL-3.0 and available via GitHub and also via PyPi. If you have an environment that has pipx installed you should be able to get up and going with:

$ pipx install ng2web

It can also be installed with Homebrew by tapping davep/homebrew and then installing ng2web:

$ brew tap davep/homebrew
$ brew install ng2web