[Lancaster] meeting, rtf to html & demos.

[Ken Hough]

On Saturday 04 April 2009 15:42:04 andy baxter wrote:
> 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!  :)

Sorry about that!

I enjoy a doing a bit of coding, but at heart I'm a lazy sod!   :-)

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

Glad to be of help.

Regards


Ken Hough