Re: Headers and footers in HTML documents - Or a lesson in banging your head against the wall

[Lou Quillio <public -at- quillio -dot- com>]

Puffer, Paula (Paula) wrote:
> Anyone know of any programs that will convert word docs
> exactly as they appear into HTML?

"Exactly" is a tall order, since HTML grants the user considerable
control over display.  And, as you say, there's no pagination
concept in HTML.  Or is there?

  http://stcforum.org/viewtopic.php?id=108

Nevertheless, Googling the term 'rtf2html' will turn up some options.

Let's not forget that HTML is plaintext.  If your MS Word styles are
fairly consistent, MS Word's HTML output will be fairly consistent
(though crufty).  Shouldn't be too tough to write a standard parser
/ transformer to clean it up.  Or just use Tidy:

  http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html#word-2000

A stack like this is worth a shot:

  MS Word -> Save as HTML, Filtered -> Tidy -> HTML

Can't beat the price.  Once you've got your Tidy config file working
the way you like, you might just be good to go.

  http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/

Worst case, there may be a few minor transformations that Tidy can't
do for you, but that can be solved with a little script, or a text
editor macro if necessary.

LQ
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