discuss: Converting from M$ Word...
Subject:
Re: Converting from M$ Word...
From:
Poet/Joshua Drake ####@####.####
Date:
11 Apr 2001 19:17:50 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104111106030.27129-100000@crazypenguins.commandprompt.com>
>DocParser? That's what I get for not paying attention for too many
>weeks. Do you have a new partial HTML->DocBook converter?
There is nothing partial about it :) It will covert HTML to valid DocBook.
The only major thing it has problems with is certain formattin issues.
Like going from <pre> to <screen> or <programlisting>
Joshua Drake
>
>I was also thinking, should anyone find it useful and have the time,
>that there was an old MSWORD template/macro package that would
>interpret LaTeX commands as word-macros, and that this could also be
>done to interpret DocBook tags into word-macros to give us a cleaner
>way to import DocBook into Word/StarOffice/AbiWord (RTF is ok, but it
>tends to mung the format)
>
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