- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 19:02:51 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
- To: Michael Nahrath <subotnik@gmx.de>
- cc: html-tidy@w3.org
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Michael Nahrath wrote: > Barney Wol <Barney.Wol@noctua.demon.co.uk> schrieb am 08.02.00 17:39: > > > The facility to convert old-fashioned FONT tags etc. to STYLE > > in HTML Tidy is brilliant, and has certainly helped this novice > > who was fighting with the STYLE syntax - thank you! > > The problem is it can not make presentational markup structural, > so in most cases the HTML you get is syntactically and > presentationally (on the latest Browsers) correct, but it is not > good. > > For example: Word 97/98 exports headings (even if defined in > Word correctly) as 'big bold standard-text', not as <h1>...<h6>. Actually, that is just what Tidy tries to do. See AddFontSize() in clean.c. The rule of thumb is imperfect but works fairly well. Regards, -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett tel/fax: +44 122 578 3011 (or 2521) +44 385 320 444 (mobile) World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from HP Labs)
Received on Tuesday, 28 March 2000 13:02:54 UTC