HTML Convertors/Generators

Jonathan Hutchins hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Thu Mar 6 17:16:00 CST 2003


Quoting Jared Smith <jared at trios.org>:

> >With Word 97, it was possible to take a document and use "save as HTML"
> >function to get rough HTML that needed only a few global deletes to
> >clean it up (mostly strip all the stupid FONT statements.  This no-
> >longer seems to be a viable option, so what can I use instead?
 
> I have found the cleanest, simplest HTML generated by converting
> the .Doc to .RTF and using an RTF-2-HTML converter. The RTF-2-HTML
> people, of which there are several offerings, are not interested
> in bloat. HTML Tidy is a little twitchy; it works great in many
> situtations, but not all, in my experience. It may work well for
> you, and is a simple solution.

Thanks, Jared, that sounds like a good way to handle it.  JEdit does look like 
a good potential editor/environment, now I just have to learn current HTML 
coding practices.  I'm still back in 1.0 land.

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