https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90704
Bug ID: 90704
Summary: FILESAVE: EXPORT: HTML: Page margin is lost, outdated
DTD
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Created attachment 114900
--> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=114900&action=edit
Three files to help suggest exporting to HTML5
I exported a simple ODT document into HTML and found that the .79in page margin
was not translated. When looking at the source code of the exported HTML file I
saw the margin stated as follows:
@page { margin: 0.79in }
The problem went away when I corrected it to:
body { margin: 0.79in 0.79in 0.79in 0.79in }
That is a true translation of the margins given in page formatting in the ODT
file.
The paragraphs were separated by an empty <p...></p> plus a <br> that sets off
the paragraphs too far from eah other. Then I noticed that the document type
used is a very old one:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
So, I changed the page to HTML5 standard:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
Then I removed all HTML tags and traversed the document simply translating the
frmatting given in the ODT file to CSS. The result was an HTML file nearly
identical to the ODT file. It is perfectly faihtful to the formatting the user
specified and nothing in addition to it. Only thing outside the user's
specification is UTF-8 transit encoding instruction, which is outside the scope
of defining the doc. This appears to be a straightforward algorithm to export
files to HTML.
This new file does not specify the language nor the ltr/rtl direction. First,
the author of the ODT file did not specify them. Second, HTML5 expects the web
server to guess the directionality. And 'lang' is only an informational item
useful for machine translators and not a requirement by HTML standard. This
file was fully validated by W3C validator as HTML5.
The files in the attached zip folder:
demo.odt <= the original doc
demo.html <= file exported by LOW
demo-html5.html <= HTML5 version hand created
Please read notes included with the source code of the HTML5 file. The
specified fonts are not necessary to test the pages.
Thank you most humbly for your great program and a wish you will start
exporting to HTML5 standard.
JC
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