Re: collaborating with FedoraNEWS.ORG

[Karsten Wade <kwade redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 09:28, Gavin Henry wrote:

> > I can do .doc to docbook no problem.
> 
> What do you use for this?

I haven't seen Dave's tool, so I do it through a more difficult method.

First, I evaluate the document.  Hopefully it is light on tables.

Next, I save as .txt and .html.  Then I use a conversion tool on them
(txt2docbook and/or asciidoc, html2db).

Next, I go through the output looking for the best looking conversion. 
Sometimes it's worth excising tables from the HTML before conversion.

Finally, I edit the XML to clean it up, fix tags (e.g., converting
<emphasis> to other tags, etc.), and add tags.

One day I expect someone will get the itch to have OpenOffice take care
of the conversion, using XSLT to convert the XML.

- Karsten
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