RE: [ws-rx-editors] Latest stab at HTML version

["Gilbert Pilz" <Gilbert.Pilz@bea.com>]

Mary,

I would really appreciate it if you point out some of the difficulties
in producing HTML to the TAB and TC Process committees.

I also note that, of the various formats supported/permitted by OASIS,
only one, OpenDocument, is an
OASIS standard. Although I wouldn't go so far as to suggest that
OpenDocument be granted preferential treatment, I think it would be
helpful if some sort of liason could be established between OASIS and
the OpenOffice project to ensure that those groups that choose to work
with OpenDocument get the support they need to be effective.

- gp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary McRae [mailto:marypmcrae@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 4:38 AM
> To: Gilbert Pilz
> Subject: RE: [ws-rx-editors] Latest stab at HTML version
> 
> Hi Gil,
> 
>   You've done a tremendous amount of work relating to what 
> can/can't be done when producing HTML from OpenOffice. I'd 
> love to be able to feed this input to the TAB and TC Process 
> committees if you don't mind? I don't think anyone on the TAB 
> or TC Process ever intended to cause this much work to 
> happen, nor were they aware of the pitfalls of conversion. 
> Robin and I have been trying to make this point, but I think 
> we make much stronger case with feedback from editors! 
> 
>   Regards,
> 
> Mary
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gilbert Pilz [mailto:Gilbert.Pilz@bea.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 1:21 AM
> > To: ws-rx-editors@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: [ws-rx-editors] Latest stab at HTML version
> > 
> > Attached is my latest attempt at an HTML version. I think 
> I've tweaked 
> > OO all it can be tweaked. Any further fixes will have to come by 
> > hand-editing the HTML (I've already done a bit of this - see below).
> > 
> > Still working from Anish's issue list:
> > 
> > 4.) Table headings not readable.
> > 
> > Fixed this by tinkering with .odt source.
> > 
> > 5.) TOC hyperlinks.
> > 
> > Got those.
> > 
> > 7.) Relative hyperlinks no functioning.
> > 
> > I couldn't figure out why the targets (<A NAME="foo"/>) weren't 
> > getting included. I've put a couple of them in just to see if they 
> > work.
> > 
> > 10.) Exemplar message format.
> > 
> > This is still not right. The exemplars are readable but lack 
> > indentation, a background, and the top and bottom lines. I could 
> > change the OO style that is used to format this stuff from 
> "Code" to 
> > "Preformatted Text" a style that, for whatever reason, translates 
> > better into HTML. It depends on how important people think this is.
> > 
> > 11.) Section/subsection numbers adjoin section/subsection titles.
> > 
> > Fixed.
> > 
> > 12) Appendix number formatting.
> > 
> > This can be fixed, but it has to be done by hand. I've 
> fixed Appendix 
> > A.
> > 
> > 13) Status boilerplate in smaller font.
> > 
> > Fixed.
> > 
> > 14 (new) Useless page numbers appear in TOC.
> > 
> > W/out pages the page numbers are pretty useless and they 
> show up right 
> > next to the section and sub-section names. I can fix this by hand.
> > 
> > - gp
> > 
> > 
> 
>