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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This link to a ["probably" OT?] message:

http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/lurker/message/20060721.041455.cfc3f8ea.en.html
may be N/A to your main concerns here, if you already have a converter, and
just
want to run a script to convert tons of files;
but it might be of interest, regarding use of MS's own conversion software
to convert .doc files to .html "without annotations".
-- 
Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz@acm.org
Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com