Yeah - and it apparently can save in 'docbook' format too. Craig On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 18:22 -0700, Mike Schwartz wrote: > > [...] editing XML is crude work. > > ?? - - > I thought XML was what OOo works on / uses. > -- > Mike Schwartz > Glendale AZ > schwartz@acm.org > Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com > > On 10/11/06, Craig White wrote: > 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 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > > -- > > .0000. communication. > > .0001. development. > > .0010. strategy. > > .0100. appeal. > > > > JOSHUA M. ZEIDNER > > IT Consultant > > > > ++power; ++perspective; ++possibilities; > > ( 602 ) 490 8006 > > jjzeidner@gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss