[WEB4LIB] Converting from Word or WordPerfect to HTML

[Thomas Dowling]

We recently got HoTMetaL Pro 5, and it does a much better job of
converting Word documents to HTML than does Word itself (I know, how could
it do worse?).  A common freeware solution is to save the documents in RTF
format and use rtf2html to convert them.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu


----- Original Message -----
From: Stacy Pober <Spober at manhattan.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 1999 10:46 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Converting from Word or WordPerfect to HTML


>I've been given some Word and WordPerfect documents to put on the
>library's web pages, and I've found that the WordPerfect and other
>conversion programs I have seem to do a pretty wretched job of converting
>into HTML.  The odd program-specific codes were to be expected, given
past
>performance, but what threw me was that none of the programs I tried
>(Word, WordPerfect, or Adobe PageMill) seemed to put in the codes for
>underlined text.  I went back and added all the <u> </u> codes by hand
>which was very tedious.
>
>Can anyone recommend a conversion program that does a smoother job of
>converting from the most common word processing formats into HTML?  Even
>if they only saved me the need to add text enhancements like boldface,
>italic, and underline codes, they'd be a time saver.  The basic document
>structures in this case were pretty simple, but there was a lot of
>emphasized text.
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>Stacy Pober                   mailto: spober at manhattan.edu
>Information Alchemist         http://www.manhattan.edu/library/
>Manhattan College Libraries   Voice: 718-862-7166
>Riverdale, NY 10471           Fax:   718-862-7995
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