[Lancaster] meeting, rtf to html & demos.

[Ken Hough]

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.

Regards

Ken hough

On Thursday 02 April 2009 23:21:21 andy baxter wrote:
> max* wrote:
> >> How about if I make the effort to write a script to turn the xhtml
> >> produced by open office's export function into decent html? Would this
> >> be useful to you, and do you have any requests for what it should do?
> >
> > i think a lot of the world are waiting for something like this... as
> > martin pointed out htmltidy is now being maintained again, so it may be
> > possible to just string together something?
>
> Not sure if htmltidy would be right for this job - it looks useful for
> other things, but openoffice does write well-formed xhtml, and htmltidy
> seems to be mainly for cleaning up badly-formed markup tags. (E.g. a
> <li> with no </li>)
>
> The problem with openoffice's xhtml is that, for example, instead of
> using the standard <i> and <b> tags for italics and bold, it defines CSS
> classes with italic and bold formatting, then applies these classes to
> <p> and <span> tags. E.g. <span class="T43"> might mean 'format in
> italic and bold (but not underline)'.
>
> So even though it is perfectly valid html which any web browser should
> interpret properly _for a stand-alone document_, it's not so good if you
> want to display the document as part of an existing website, using your
> standard stylesheets. Or if you want to apply global formatting changes
> to the document.
>
> > i'd be happy to test out whatever you write on my frequent conversions of
> > the guides and briefings at seeds for change!
>
> I've had another look at it and it looks possible, but probably harder
> than I first thought. Will have another think about it next week.
>
> >> Also, have you tried exporting to LaTeX then converting that using
> >> latex2html? I had a go at this but latex export in my open office is
> >> broken.
> >
> > needs java, and i haven't sorted that out yet.
>
> I have java and it's still broken, even though xhtml export works ok
> (which also uses java.)
>
> andy
>
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