Re: [TCLUG:22806] Linux HTML Editor

["Cook, Justin S." <jcook@k-lug.com>]

<snip>
SO 5.1's document-to-HTML converter produced some truly vile HTML.
(<font> tags on each line in a paragraph, f.ex.)
</snip>

This is true. Tho i use a less bulkier word processor, Corel Wordperfect 8.
I've found that their HTML exporter is really good, but it uses a few to
many <p>'s, so if you're looking for HTML converters, try Corel WP8.

Justin Cook
mailto:jcook@k-lug.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome@real-time.com>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:22806] Linux HTML Editor


> > Open Office 6 has an HTML editor built in. you can even swith between
> > HTML view and WYSIWYG modes. Be warned though that you will want to go
> > back over the code when you are done to clean it up a little. I haven't
> > used the 'openoffice 6' that much yet but that was the case with the
> > 'star office 5.2' version.
>
> SO 5.1's document-to-HTML converter produced some truly vile HTML.
> (<font> tags on each line in a paragraph, f.ex.)
>
> I don't think I saw an HTML editor per se in it; just the option to save a
> document as HTML.
>
> Hopefully it's gotten better in 5.2 and 6.0; but I doubt it will be good
> enough.
>
> what we really need is a word processor that saves its files as SGML.
> documents are portable in the extreme (it's just marked-up plain text);
and
> can be trivially converted to whichever other format you like (text, HTML,
> LaTeX, PostScript, etc).
> the tragedy of closed-source software, is that this need has been ignored
> for decades, in the interest of vendor lock-in and forced upgrades.
>
> Carl Soderstrom
> --
> Network Engineer
> Real-Time Enterprises
> (952) 943-8700
>
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