Re: [libreoffice-users] specialized HTML generation

On 6/12/2011 2:21 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
>   1. The hard part is the 300-word chunks.  If you really mean exactly 300 words (and not the 
> average writing assumption of the space that 300 5-character words take), you need to process the 
> text file in some sort of program that inserts separators of some kind every 300 words.
>
>   2. If you mean 300 words on the average, what is considered an average amount of text on a page 
> in a paper, you can set up the document to have pages that fit 300 words of text on the average.  
> Just fiddle with the margins until the right amount is on a page after you load up the text as a 
> document.
that was a good suggestion.   when I moved the lower margin up to about 7 
inches, I get almost exactly 300 words on page just close enough to perfect.

>   3 Then you can experiment with the File | Send>  Create HTML Document to see if it will make a 
> set of web pages for you.  My experience is that the converter for this is very flaky, but it might 
> work for the text you have if it is simple.

That doesn't work. I can save as HTML and get a single file but I'll need to run 
a preprocessor over it to clean it up. Unfortunately, I also lose the soft page 
breaks and header information.  converting those soft breaks to heartbreaks is 
important during export because it should maintain the style across page boundaries.
>   4. Another solution is to get the page size to where it holds 300 words of text and then save it 
> as text (not text encoding, which you can try, but just .text).
>
>   5. Then to make separators, you can create page headings and footer that insert something like the literal characters 
> "<p>" at the top of the page and"</p>" at the bottom of the page. (Pray that the Save As ... .text 
> keeps headers and footers.)
problem with this is it loses style information with images etc. but other than 
that, it's a good suggestion.


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