[Hudlug] created a web page

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 18 September 2006 12:12, Ben Fowler wrote:
> > I found that starting from a rich text file from a word processor needed
> > a lot of cleaning up.  Creating the text directly into Composer was much
> > cleaner, though that can be slimmed down too.  I especially liked the
> > validation link.
>
> Obviously it depends. My picture of a rich file is one with styles,
> one heading and several paragraphs. All you are getting is the ability
> to do simply formatting and and structure using your well-known gui
> interface and export to several simple formats including HTML.
>
If you start from a rich text file in OpenOfficeWriter (and I believe that 
Word acts the same way) writing it as an html file puts in a lot of markup 
that is spurious.  I'm thinking particularly of things like closing a tag and 
then immediately opening the same tag.  It doesn't stop anything working, it 
just adds to bloat.

Anne
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