On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 05:56 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote: > 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 got it mostly right. However I think an easier way to make one big document from a bunch of little ones would be to use Insert > File and select all the files in order. Have you tried this? See http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo2.x/user_guide2_draft.pdf for more info. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/
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