On 2009-02-16, Twayne <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm using copy/paste. If it weren't that Word did such a good job > (which I want to wean myself from) and OO.o such a bad job, I guess I'd > just shrug it off. I was hoping this would be one of those "Just go to > ... and ... and you'll be all set, dummy" type answers. > It takes a little experimenting but if I copy/paste smaller pieces of > the pages, sort of a subject at a time, then I can sometimes succeed in > getting a useful document but not always. And how little/much to copy > at a time is always a crapshoot. > I've studied the source code of a few of the problem type pages, > usually Tech Support related pages, but haven't been able to reliably > attribute it to any specific thing in the source. At one piont I > thought maybe div tags, or possibly PHP nuances, but no luck tying them > to anything in the files displays. Obviously it's in the way the > programs treat HTML and probably the invisible characters that come > along with such a copy, but I can't pin anything down.
Are the pages you are pasting into OOo W3C compliant, or do they contain proprietary markup of some kind? -- John ([email protected]) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
