On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 18:50 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Open Office might be worth it for him. It is what I use most of the > time.... > In that case one of you should suck a plain text newsletter body into oowriter, make it look tidy, save it as HTML and then run it through a validatoy, such as HTML-tidy, to make sure it isn't generating any incorrect HTML that my small test missed.
Writing code that generates standards-compliant HTML needs a bit of care and attention - I've been there, done that a few times. I also know that looking at the output with a web browser or MUA, while necessary, isn't enough. Once the program is generating well formatted pages its output should be run through a validator and the cycle repeated until the HTML is both well-formatted and passes validation without errors or warnings. Judging by the results, most authors of HTML generating tools skip the validation checks. Martin
