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Subject:Re: converting to HTML From:Sandy Harris <sandy -at- storm -dot- ca> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:19:37 -0500
Michele Davis wrote:
>
> Many choices I would think.
>
> 1) Dump your word doc into notepad and start coding!
O'Reilly (www.ora.org) "HTML: The Definitive Guide" is an excellent reference.
> 2) Word goes to HTML doesn't it? But with some fixes. Once again learn how to
> code.
The World Wide Web Consortium (w3c.org) have tools -- HTML tidy and a validator --
for checking HTML for standards compliance. Use them, expecially if you're creating
the HTML with Microsoft tools.
They also have a free browser/editor valled Amaya.
> Now I know someone is going to bash me and say my methods are antiquated, but I
> like to control my own code, so those are the options I'd use, if I had to port
> from Word to HTML.
Except that I prefer wordpad to notepad, I agree completely.
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