On Friday 04 August 2006 12:32 am, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:28:32AM +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Gary Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Openoffice Mailing List" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:32 PM > > Subject: [users] can I turn HTML into OO files? > > > > >People, > > > > > >I have nearly 80 HTML files that I would like to put together > > >or edit with OOo-2. I think I can go from openoffice -> markup, > > >but don't know about the other way. I'masking before trying > > >because I have tried (with 1.1.5) to edit *.txt files with > > >simple HTML commands and OO did not like it! > > > > > >thanks! > > > > > >gary kline > > > > > >-- > > > Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public > > > service Unix
> > > > I think it may depend on what you want to end up with. If the > > HTML files are mainly text based and you want to end up with text > > style documents then simply select/copy the text from your > > browser and paste it into an OO document. You can also embed > > graphics in your OO document via copy/paste (see also the thread > > about positioning graphics in OO Writer - read up about > > Anchors).. > > > > You could also use "Open With" (on Windows, anyway) to open the > > HTML directly with OO. This is fine for text based documents but > > OO doesn't seem to do a particularly good job with embedded > > graphics. There is no direct way to Save As a normal OO document > > but you could Export as PDF. > > > > If you want an HTML editor - you want to end up with HTML > > documents - then I can recommend Arachnophilia which is free from > > http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/ I've used it on Windows > > but, as it's Java based, I think it will run on many different > > platforms. You can also tell it which browser(s) you like and it > > will behave appropriately. Dealing with the author, for support > > perhaps, is best described as interesting, but the software does > > seem to do what it says on the tin. Make *very* sure you have the > > latest version before claiming you've found a bug. Make *very* > > sure you've read the FAQs before asking a question. > > I have done all my HTML by-hand since '93, thank you; those > HTML editors are over my head! I'm working on translating > my Jottings into text, likely ISO.8859-1. And the more I > think about it, I'm going to strip out *all* grapjics. > (There is only one faux Japanese ink-sketch. Yes, I could > run my dehtml binary; but then I'd have to re-format... .) > > What I'm aiming for when this is all done is to have a > manuscript, camera-ready, that I can email [as .doc] > or snail to the printer. --Thanks for your help. i'Ve > got several sed runs and experimentation to do. > > > Harold Fuchs > > London, England After having read this thread, I am still clueless as to what you want to do. You have 80 HTML files. What do you want to do with them? Do you want to convert them into a single *.odt file? If this is the case, this may help. Open a new text document. (Click the New icon, and select Text document.) Open an HTML document. Copy and paste the HTML document into the empty text document. Save this new file as a *.odt file. You can then copy and paste the other HTML documents into this file. You will have to reformat the *.odt file. This is best done using styles. Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
