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Re: Transitioning Text Across Platforms

Subject: Re: Transitioning Text Across Platforms
From: Lou Quillio <public -at- quillio -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:57:36 -0400


Jens Reineking wrote:

Lou, I would be interested in learning your HTML approach for
transitioning text from Word to InDesign.

Jens,

I'm not experienced with InDesign (really should fix that), just assumed it would do a better job of preserving some document structure if you feed it clean HTML instead of plaintext.

And *the* tool for getting from MS Word 2000/97 to clean HTML is Tidy:

http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

The problem with these applications' method for exporting to HTML is that it adds a bunch of junk geared toward re-importing to Word. Among its many other capabilities, Tidy has switches for specifically cleaning MS Word-generated HTML.

Tidy's various parameters may be given from the command line, but also from a more convenient config file.

So if you have a bunch of MS Word content to re-purpose -- and HTML figures in the re-purposing, perhaps as an intermediary step -- Tidy can get you there. Use the most complex document as a baseline, tweak the Tidy parameters until you like the output, then pipe the rest of the files through. Works great, integrates with many editors.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22html-tidy%22+integration

Even if one doesn't need Tidy right now, remember that it's out there. One day it'll save you a lot of trouble.

LQ

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References:
Transitioning Text Across Platforms: From: Nuckols, Kenneth M
Re: Transitioning Text Across Platforms: From: Lou Quillio
Re: Transitioning Text Across Platforms: From: Jens Reineking

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