Converting MS Word VML

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Monday 06 October 2003 4:48 pm, Jason Clinton wrote:

> >I receive a newsletter that's being created in MS Word 10 as VML (MS'
> > Pseudo HTML).  Is anyone aware of a decent converter that will clean this
> > stuff back to decent, genuine HTML without all the extra foo, font, and
> > style garbage?

> As mentioned many times before, HTMLTidy has a "Word cleaner" in it.
> It's a command line utility writen in C. tidylib has been incorporated
> in to many text editors including jEdit.

I haven't been impressed with the "extensions", but then I don't much care for 
most of the "here, I'll do it for you" HTML editors.  I like vi.

I've just realised that since I'm now working entirely in Linux, I don't even 
have to install it on the server to try it out.  I'll do that.  Thanks.

> (Yes, the message is in plain text for you, Jonathan.)

Yes, thank you, as it should be on a public, technical mailing list.  
Otherwise the spam filters bounce it.