- From: Charles Reitzel <creitzel@rcn.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:15:42 -0500
- To: "Fred Christian" <fred@gloryofgod.com>
- Cc: <html-tidy@w3.org>, <asp@tvw.net>
At 09:20 AM 3/18/2003 -0800, Fred Christian wrote: >- Even though I created a tool to export the documents, > it was still imperative for the writers to strictly > use the correct styles and formatting in their Word > Doc's in order to get the desired results. This is an important point. If you want to support ongoing maintenance of documents in Word, with occasional export to the web, it helps a great deal to create some document templates with various styles defined. These styles will flow through to the HTML as classes, allowing you to create a CSS style sheet that defines the presentation of these classes. Also, if there embedded or linked images, you may need to hand tweak the links in the HTML. >- MS Word is evil I am sure most other word processors are similarly evil. I have heard that recent versions of Word Perfect do a great job of separating presentation and markup. I.e. a document is two files: an XML file containing content and a stylesheet for layout/presentation. Might be worth a look for ongoing content authoring. Also, for storage in a database, you might want to use show-body-only: http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html#show-body-only hth, Charlie
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