[pmwiki-users] Fwd: Menu-option questions..

[Sandy]

For MSWord to "real" HTML, there are several open source converters. 
Hubby's got one in pre-beta stage over at http://www.onebit.ca/software/ 
All it does is strip out the Word stuff and help you find and convert 
the long ugly tags to more reasonable tags.

Relying on any converter is not a great idea. Too often the user will do 
something silly. Just yesterday I got a Word file, and she used three 
different ways to get the same result. Add multiple authors, often those 
who experiment with ways to get things looking right, and you'll still 
have to check each document manually. But the converter's still a good 
start.

Sandy


Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:16:21PM +0100, Marc Cooper wrote:
> 
>>Ben said...
>> 
>>
>>>Thanks for the hints, I'm glad it can be done.
>>>It will really be helpful if it becomes a wiki, because that way I
>>>don't need to do
>>>the ever-annoying double tasks of translating word-docs into html and
>>>crap like that.
>>
>>Yup, but you have to translate it into markup, which would be a chore 
>>with huge docs.
> 
> 
> True, but if he wrote it directly into the wiki, he wouldn't have to.
> Perhaps that's what he means?
> 
> 
>>For dokuwiki, I have a macro to translate OpenOffice 
>>docs to its markup, I've not seen such a thing for PmWiki yet.
> 
> 
> No, but there does exist a HTML -> PmWiki converter: the perl module
> HTML::WikiConverter (which can convert HTML pages into several dialects
> of wiki markup, including PmWiki).
> 
> Kathryn Andersen