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])


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