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Karsten Wade
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Wed Jun 9 20:08:28 UTC 2004
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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