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MENTOR Version 8.5

“WEB_FORMAT_HTML4_TABLES” OPTION ALLOWS YOU TO CLASSIFY TABLE ELEMENTS
If you use web_format_html4_tables=on, then the program will put “class” statements on the various table elements (freq,vper,hper,banner,stub,etc) so that you can then use CSS to easily customize what the output looks like.

WEBTABLES OPTIONS TO CONTROL WHAT IS PRINTED AT THE TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE WEB PAGE
The ~SET webtables features now supports two new options, web_format_page_top=() and web_format_page_bottom=() which allows you to control what is printed at the top and bottom of the web pages that are output. The “top” version of this will replace the top of the webtables file from the beginning, up to, and including the “body” tag. The “bottom” version will replace everything from the closing “body” tag to the end of the file.

WEBTABLES OPTION “TRANSLATE_HTML_ENTITIES” TRANSLATES SOME SPECIAL CHARACTERS TO THEIR HTML EQUIVALENTS IN THE WEB PAGE OUTPUT.
If you set translate_html_entities=on, then Mentor will convert the following characters to their HTML equivalents in the web table output: ”<”, ”>”, ”&”, ”””, and “’”.

SET OPTION “ATTACH_STAT_LABELS_TO_BANNER” TO PRINT LETTERS UNDER THE BANNER POINTS
This option allows you to print the letters identifying each column tested under the banner text instead of under a designated data row. This works for print, delimited and html tables.

“=ALLOTHERCODES” RESPONSE CODE IS NOW ALLOWED TO PARALLEL “??” RESPONSE IN SURVENT
You can now use ”=allothercodes” in a pound sign (#) variable in Mentor to act as a catchall for all the other answers that might exist in that field. This is now automatically created in the def file if ?? was used as the response code in a Fld,A type question. For instance,

[11#1//3/=allothercodes]

The fourth category above would contain all the other possible responses that were in column 11. Note: blank is included in the allothercodes category.

ILLEGAL NAMES ARE NOW HANDLED BETTER FOR DELIMITED INPUT FILES
Mentor now converts all invalid names that might be on the header record of a delimited input file to just the generic name field_xx where xx is the field position number in the record.