[Lancaster] meeting, rtf to html & demos.

[andy baxter]

Ken Hough wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2009 17:57:43 you wrote:
>   
>> Ken Hough wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Guys!
>>>
>>> I've not really been following this thread so I might be well off the
>>> mark.
>>>
>>> If you are looking for something to handle and check html, I can
>>> recommend 'Quanta+'. It includes an html syntax checker which seems to be
>>> quite ruthless in discovering syntax errors.
>>>
>>> I use Quanta+ to build all of my html stuff. It can render/display html
>>> code as it will be seen via a browser, although not if this includes
>>> things like PHP.
>>>       
>> Hi ken,
>>
>> The problem I'm trying to solve is that although Open Office has an
>> (x)html export function, the html it writes is structured in a way that
>> makes it hard to embed the document into a larger web page. I.e. it's ok
>> if you just want to put a single document on a website with a link to
>> it, but not so good if you want that document to be part of a bigger
>> page including things like a site banner, navigation menus, standard
>> fonts and colours etc.
>>     
>
> I haven't EXPORTED an OOo document as xhtml before, so have just tried it. I 
> get an error message to the effect :
>
> "Error saving document  xxxxxxxxxxx
> Write error
> the file could not be written"
>
> However, I can SAVE the document as html without any problems and can then 
> view the html code. This can then be loaded into Quanta+ and behaves as 
> expected. It looks to be basic html without any fancy things like CSS, so 
> should be easily 'pasteable' into other html code.
>
>   
Hey, don't go confusing me with simple solutions when I was looking 
forward to writing some code!  :)

It does work nicely though, so I'll probably do it the way you've said.

Thanks,

andy