Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: HTML Source

[Andrew]

Thanks to all that responded.  The semi-correct answer was provided to 
me privately.  I'll respect that privacy by not posting his name, 
however here are his instructions - with my addition.  This works, 
someone needs to update the help file, wiki, etc. etc. to start.  In 
addition, it would be really really nice if someone fixed this Rube 
Goldberg-like procedure as this is horrible and painful to have to go 
through all of this just to convert & view/edit a document as HTML.



o If they are text documents, you first need to use Save As... within 
LibreOffice to save copies as "HTML Document" - probably with an .htm 
or .html extension.


It's actually a .DOC file in my case.  The help file does mention saving 
the file this way, which I did.


o Now close the document and reopen it.  If I open it using File | 
Recent Documents, I get the wrong result: it opens as a text 
document.  So I need to use File | Open... or to right-click the file 
outside LibreOffice and use Open With > | sweb.  I think the window 
header should say "LibreOffice Writer/Web", not "LibreOffice Writer".


The above is the missing step.  However, there is STILL ANOTHER missing 
step!  Once I EXIT LibreOffice and right click in the file folder, and 
use "Open With", I have to also click on "Choose Program" followed by 
"Browse", and then find sweb.exe in my Programs folder.  Only after 
doing that does "LibreOffice Writer (Web)" show up in the context menu.


o Now you can go to View | HTML Source or click the HTML Source button 
in the Standard toolbar.
o Edit the HTML source. 


Yes, with the missing step this works.

Someone PLEASE update the various sources of documentation and ideally 
FIX the program so one can simply SAVE AS (or perhaps - CONVERT/EXPORT 
TO HTML) and then have it accessible in a simple manner without all 
these contortions.  This really needs to be a one maybe two click 
operation.  1) CONVERT  TO HTML  2) VIEW AS HTML? (yes, a question 
presented to the user as there's a good chance if I just converted it, I 
want to view it, however that may not always be the case.  I might just 
want to convert and be done with it, hence the question.)


Thank you to all that responded.


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[libreoffice-users] Re: HTML Source

[V Stuart Foote]

The UI Instructions are correct, if a little terse.

The missing key is that the document must be a valid .HTM or .HTML file
type. Done to a ODF formated document, by either *Export *to  XHTML, or by
using the*Save as* and selecting the HTML Document  (Writer) and allowing
the conversion to other than ODF format.


 

So either "export" to HTML or  "save a copy" of an .ODT  file being edited
to HTML.  Simply renaming using Widnows Explorer won't do the conversion, it
needs to actually be HTML. 

 Then when being edited in Writer, the "View" menu will show the "HTML
source". 

 

Which can also be toggled with an +V, +M accelerator when document
has been detected as valid  HTML or XHTML.



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: HTML Source

[Virgil Arrington]

Yes, I also have "Data Source" in my View Menu (LO 3.6.6.2, Win7), but when 
I select it on an HTML file, I do *not* get HTML source code. Rather, I get 
a link to a "Bibliography," which my document doesn’t have. If I recall, 
"Bibliography" is one of the default registered databases, which of course 
has nothing to do with HTML code.


So, unless I'm mistaken, "Data Source" is not the same as "HTML Source." 
LO's online documentation says to select "HTML Source" under the View menu.


Virgil

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Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: HTML Source

In the Mac version LO 4.04.2 the Data Source is in the View Menu and you can
obtain it by pressing F4.

Tink



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[libreoffice-users] Re: HTML Source

[Tinkerer]

In the Mac version LO 4.04.2 the Data Source is in the View Menu and you can
obtain it by pressing F4.

Tink



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