On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Shakthi Kannan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> --- On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 3:39 AM, Shrinivasan T
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> | Authors send us books in Word Format.
> | We save it as HTML using libreoffice 4.1
> \--
>
> IMO, it will be useful to convert Word to plain text, so that you can
> export it to any format in future.
>
> Separating content from presentation will help in long-term
> maintenance. Otherwise, it becomes a vendor lock-in.
>

+1

I suggest 'pandoc' which can convert any type of document to several open
formats like latex which will help in long-term preservation and
maintenance.

S. Baskar
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