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.
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> On 10/11/06, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> 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 <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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