Re: [epub] text to html

[Bill Donovan <bill.donovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan,
I've created four web sites and a couple thousand web pages.  Some
observations:

1. If you're working page by page, use a page-by-page authoring program like
Hotmetal 4.0.  It will simply open up a Word, WordPerfect, or txt file as an
HTML page--conversion finished except for design matters.  If you have a
template, then you can open the template and cut-and-paste either the
template into the converted page or vice versa (be sure not to save the file
as the same name as your template).  There are other page-by-page programs.
I would get Hotmetal 4 over 5, which seeks to compete with the Frontpages of
the world...

Frontpage--not for page-by-page work.
I've tried in two different years to work with two different versions of
Frontpage.  Can't for the life of me figure out why anyone swears by it (I
only swear at it), but many do.  However, it is NOT made for converting
pages.  It manages web sites as a whole, and the page-specific work is a
minor part of the program.

For full web site mapping, design, and style...
I use a competitor of Frontpage, Netobjects' Fusion, to create and manage
web sites as a whole.  I find it a lot more comprehensible than Frontpage.
See www.insidehealth.com; it was created with Fusion.  However, it, too, is
quite clunky and junky for working within one page at a time; I had to
rework virtually every text page with Hotmetal.

Microsoft Word...
...is a poor but available alternative converting web pages if you're a
beginner.  Yes, it will do simple jobs, but it has many quirks and does not
correctly convert links.  Versions before 2000 have numerous nasty surprises
of their own; Word 2000 works best, but it  turns some links into bookmarks,
fails to convert some others.  I use it all the time and have learned (from
subscribers, unfortunately) what I have to fix when I convert.  It also
might run you into Microsoft-specific non-standard HTML code; I don't know
this for sure, but Microsoft does this sort of thing all the time.
Bill Donovan


Nathan Lynch wrote:

> There is a way to convert text to html. Kind of like an
> automatic converter? Does anyone have a good one.  Want to
> automatically convert articles to a html template.
>
> Thanks,
> Nathan Lynch



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