RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: M$word and docbook/xml

[bmadi_1@yahoo.com]

Hi,
i have finally saved it as .txt and have finished about 100 pages ;-) but since
the  thread was taking on some interesting proportions ;
here's my $0.2 worth
a) i agree with bob on one count it is easier to paste from pdf for tables list
etc
b) i used staroffice (windows) which had three options save it as .txt or
ms-dos txt or unix text i chooose the safest route of txt since i work both in
windows and linux also my java editor ( wonders of wonders works better on
linux)  which has some nifty tree view and automatic refresh as i type in my
tags etc.
c) sebastian though had suggested as alternative to majjix but that dam'n thing
always gave java out of memory error and i didn't want to go back to disturb
mucho busy man , our own sebastian .
d) with the word document saved as text i have only one problem that all the
" ' " i.e. single qoutes or rather apostrophe get saved in probably a binary
format since it shows up as as tiny square (outline) . i used find and replace
function of my editor to get rid of it.

thank you all very much for this thread


regards

maddy

On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, RoSmith wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob McIlvride [mailto:robert@cogent.ca]
> >
> > Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> > 
> > > A better route is to print the documents out and have them 
> > retyped in
> > > India. Seriously.
> > 
> > A _slightly_ better route is to convert them to PDF and select and paste
> > the text a paragraph at a time into your text editor, creating and/or
> > adding DocBook markup as you go.
> 
> Bob, 
> 
> I can't imagine that would be any easier than simply saving the file as
> "Text Only" or "MS-DOS Text" and starting from there.
> 
> Another thought would be to Export the .doc file as HTML, then use HTML Tidy
> to clean up the MSHTML and convert it to XHTML.  I have never done this, but
> it may work better than the "Text Only" solution.
> 
> -Ross