<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 at k-lug.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome at real-time.com> To: <tclug-list at 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org