OpenOffice does not produce HTML documents.

[Matt Morgan]

On 08/17/2004 09:57 AM, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

>I have discovered that OpenOffice is unable to produce viewable HTML
>pages from Word Documents.
>
>1. In FC1 the HTML document is unviewable because paragraphs come out
>as just one big line that does not wrap arroung properly.
>  
>
Let me ask three questions for clarity:

1) I'm not 100% sure of what you're trying to do. It sounds like you 
have a *.doc that you're opening in OOo and saving as HTML. Is that right?
2) Have you looked at the resulting HTML code to see where the problem is?
3) What browser are you using to view the results?

Line wrapping is not set in HTML code but is handled by the browser, so 
it normally works with arbitrary window size (the line wraps at the edge 
of the window). So something non-standard is happening along the way, or 
maybe you've inadvertently gotten some <pre> codes in there that are 
forcing literal interpretation of the text.

>2. I have not spent as much time doing this conversion in FC2. But
>what I got was an HTML page with just the header code and no body.
>
>Any one know how to make this work? It certainly works correctly in
>Microsoft Word under XP.
>  
>
I haven't tried it for a while, but historically MS-Word has produced 
overly complicated and non-W3C-standard HTML code, that is only likely 
to work in IE (a non-W3C-standard browser). That is, they're designed to 
work together rather than aiming for a general standard (which is what 
OOo is trying to do). So if that's what works correctly in Word, it's 
not a really good basis for understanding what's happening.