Reply To: Global Warming

[Brian H]

Dr_Barnowl wrote:

tips on how to convert a word doc into an html doc – without all that crazy extra formatting that word sticks in there! – please let me know.

My tips would be

* Don’t use Word to write web pages.

Sorry, that’s not very helpful, but if you’ve seen the output of Word as HTML you now know why. I tend to write documents that I know have to be HTML, using HTML and CSS, by hand, in a plain text editor.

The document is heavy on the copy, light on the formatting, so just reformatting the plain text by hand as HTML wouldn’t be too bad.

* Try OpenOffice.org

Exporting it as XHTML from OOo has lots of “Crazy formatting” too, alas, but exporting as MediaWiki format really pares it down ; the resulting format should convert back to nice clean HTML without too much effort, e.g. Mediawiki to HTML

* Maybe use TeX

Possibly using a cannon to kill a mosquito ; but very good for the inevitable publication of lots of scientific papers!

Try SeaMonkey: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
It is very efficient, and supports WYSIWYG HTML composing. Current 2.0 supports CSS etc.