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Chris Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>>From outset, it would be better to have used a format like Latex, from
> which we could generate both html and pdf. Right now, it would be too
> much work for us to move away from html.

I'm not sufficiently practiced in this area to be able to judge, but is
it possible to clean up the HTML, if necessary (tidy comes to mind), and
then transform it to DocBook XML?  Googling turns up
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~ppadala/projects/tidy/ and
http://www.xml.com/pub/p/423, among other tools.  The latter sounds (but
may not be) better but isn't free.

Once you had DocBook XML, you could create HTML, help, PDFs, and a
number of other output formats.  I've written in DocBook and found it
really nice (Emacs and nxml-mode can be your friends), although I'm not
skilled in creating the XSL and CSS files you'd want to transform and
format the material.

Bill
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Bill Harris                      http://facilitatedsystems.com/weblog/
Facilitated Systems                              Everett, WA 98208 USA
http://facilitatedsystems.com/                  phone: +1 425 337-5541
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