discuss: Thread: Converting from M$ Word...

Hi,

I'm in the final stages of finishing the text of the Sybase Adaptive Server
Anywhere for Linux HOWTO. I've been working on the text in Word (at the
request of my superiors), being careful to keep a structure, but the time
has come for my prose to ascend to SGML, or XML. I'm only here until the
end of the month, however, so I need to do it quickly!

My question is, what method do you recommend?

I have both a Linux machine and an NT machine at my disposal, as well as
Frame+SGML. I don't have much experience with many of the tools (a bit of
emacs, not much vi/vim), but I can work well with a text editor and markup
if need be. One thing I was thinking about was StarOffice, since I
understand it's XML-based. Or should I just take advantage of the fact that
FM+SGML is right here in front of me? Or is someone willing to pick it up
from Word format and convert it for me? ; )

Thanks,
Aylwin.

Hello,

Send me the html format, I will run it through our DocParser. It will
convert it to valid DocBook. Once that is done you just have to go through
the little things like formatting.

J

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 ####@####.#### wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm in the final stages of finishing the text of the Sybase Adaptive Server
>Anywhere for Linux HOWTO. I've been working on the text in Word (at the
>request of my superiors), being careful to keep a structure, but the time
>has come for my prose to ascend to SGML, or XML. I'm only here until the
>end of the month, however, so I need to do it quickly!
>
>My question is, what method do you recommend?
>
>I have both a Linux machine and an NT machine at my disposal, as well as
>Frame+SGML. I don't have much experience with many of the tools (a bit of
>emacs, not much vi/vim), but I can work well with a text editor and markup
>if need be. One thing I was thinking about was StarOffice, since I
>understand it's XML-based. Or should I just take advantage of the fact that
>FM+SGML is right here in front of me? Or is someone willing to pick it up
>from Word format and convert it for me? ; )
>
>Thanks,
>Aylwin.
>
>
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>http://list.linuxdoc.org/
>

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>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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Cool!  Where can I get a copy of the DocParser? (I've been waiting
hundreds of years for this!)

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Hello,

It is not yet released. We use it internally and have used it to convert
some of the HOWTOs. DocParser does a better job translating HTML to
DocBook than the LinuxDoc to DocBook thing does.

It is to be commercially released next week and will be available on a
subscription based model of some sort. It will not be expensive but we
gotta pay the bills :)

J

On 11 Apr 2001, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:

>
>Cool!  Where can I get a copy of the DocParser? (I've been waiting
>hundreds of years for this!)
>
>

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