way too many documents for this methodology...

The larger issue though is the framework to convert this to. I am
looking at how samba does things and they use 'docbook' which apparently
is all XML which is converted by script into html and into pdf formats.
This seems like a bunch of extra work and editing XML is crude work.

Any other ideas?

Craig

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 15:38 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> Craig,
> 
>   A very easy way to accomplish the basic functionality is to send
> the .DOC to yourself in Gmail and click 'View As HTML'.  The converter
> works fairly well.  It doesn't always handle graphics properly.
> 
> -jmz
> 
> On 10/11/06, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
>         I have a lot of documents to convert from Microsoft 'doc'
>         format to html
>         
>         I have found a number of tools to do that but it doesn't
>         really clean
>         them up very well which means that I will have to do a lot of
>         hand edits 
>         which isn't so bad considering that I will undoubtedly have to
>         do this
>         anyway to get a common css and common headers/footers, etc.
>         
>         If anyone has suggestions on best methods for the above, I
>         would
>         appreciate it but thus far, I see little better than
>         openoffice macros 
>         which do this in bulk (conversions).
>         
>         More importantly though, there is a structure to the
>         storage...
>         
>         Base (subdirectory)
>           Section 1 (subdirectory)
>             Section 1A (document)
>             Section 1B (document) 
>           Section 2 (subdirectory)
>             Section 2A (document)
>         
>         etc. and I would love for some methodology to build a table of
>         contents/links to these documents automatically - and possibly
>         even
>         output the end result (the whole enchilada) perhaps in PDF so
>         that I 
>         have other means to distribute this. I have seen many
>         different
>         publications that get built this way and I don't know how they
>         accomplish this. Are there some open source tools that can do
>         this?
>         
>         Craig
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