From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 11:26:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2245816A4CE for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:26:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-46.apple.com [17.250.248.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C49D43FE1 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:26:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.6/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id hANJQTZB009630; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:26:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.8] (12-231-115-57.client.attbi.com [12.231.115.57]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin08/MantshX 3.0) with ESMTP id hANJQSxO028399; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:26:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: paul beard Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:26:25 -0800 To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: advice needed on creating hmtl docs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 19:26:33 -0000 On Nov 23, 2003, at 9:22 AM, fbsd_user wrote: > I would really like to use the ms/word docs as source input to some > FBSD hmtl generator to build original hmtl source that apache can > serve up natively. Can any body suggest how to do this? > One approach I've had some success with is to take the baroque HTML that Word generates and run it through htmltidy. It can strip out all the deprecated tags and generate CSS styles for you, giving you both the appearance and the maintainability you may need later. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com