Couple of issues: I use OpenOffice 2.0.3.
OpenOffice has an "HTML Document" - File/New/HTML Document. The
documentation for OpenOffice notes in Calc and Writer, how to read and
write in HTML. However, nothing is said in the documentation
specifically about this HTML Document creator. I learned that HTML
documents are easier to work with when saving them as HTML from Writer.
Also, if you want to mix text with graphics in your HTML creation, you
better know, or have an understanding of HTML, otherwise, you're in for
a shock when you design an HTML document with graphics and text right
where you want them, but when displayed in Internet Explorer, or
Firefox, your display is not what you designed in OpenOffice.
A while ago, I had another question for the OpenOffice users group.
An individual led me to using the free program conTEXT to resolve my
issue. I also discovered that conTEXT is an excellent HTML code editor,
besides an excellent text editor, showing the displayed HTML text as
black and the HTML code tags as blue, codes as dark blue and the line
you're working on highlighted tag arrows as red. This automatic color
coding makes editing a breeze. However OpenOffice has a very annoying
habit.
When you first create an HTML document using Writer, first create
the graphic. Then use a text editor to examine your creation. Using
conTEXT with its automatic color coding of HTML makes examining easy.
OpenOffice makes a lot of useful entries, however makes many useless
entries as well. As you go, designing your HTML document, you may wish
to check its W3C HTML validation. As is, OpenOffice is NOT W3C HTML
compliant! A lot of "cleaning up" has to be done every time OpenOffice
is used! For example, there is no HTML code NAME= in the 4.0
compliance. Every time OpenOffice is used, all the NAME= and the text
that follows (that OpenOffice automatically inserts) has to be deleted
to be W3C validated. How come? Why are all the codes sloppily added
one right after each other on the same line, instead of a nice clean
order on separate lines and columns? Each time I use OpenOffice for
whatever reason, in the creation of an HTML document, I have to use the
text editor to massively clean up OpenOffice in order to make it W3C
validated.
Greg
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