Re: [libreoffice-users] specialized HTML generation

Eric

On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 15:45 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:

> On 6/12/2011 3:08 PM, planas wrote:
> > If you trying to each 300 word block its own page one way to get consistent formatting across 
> > web pages is to use an external CSS sheet with the default formatting you want
> >
> > The CSS (cascading style sheet) will have the format information. Each
> > web page must reference the page for the formating to work. I have a
> > link with more information about creating web pages and css style sheets
> >
> > http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp
>
> good idea but wrong context. For future reference, how do you tell writer to use 
> a particular stylesheet when you are working on a document and producing the 
> HTML output?
>
> Well is talk about was a *different problem ^entirely. This example only make* 
> sense in HTML. The carrot marks the 300 word mark. If you are working in a word 
> processor, the bold section would continue from one page to the other page 
> automatically. In HTML I would need to close off all formatting and then reopen 
> it on the next page just like a word processor does.
>
> I should probably explain why I'm trying to do this so it makes more sense. I'm 
> doing an experiment for online literary magazine. One of the problems with 
> putting writing on the net is that HTML is not formatted for reading. People's 
> eyes need to take a break and we have become accustomed to a 300 word chunks as 
> is found on most books. I don't know if that was an artifact of human wiring or 
> mechanics of the printing process but, it seems to work. Putting writing into 
> HTML is up with a page that is both too wide and too long for easy reading.
>
> My experiment involves automatically producing 300 word pages that can be 
> lightly massaged into HTML for presentation online in a variety of different 
> formats. traditional or tabloid width, single column or dual column and see 
> which works well.
>
> Yes, I could take the page structure I have now and cut and paste each page into 
> an HTML editor but, I'm not doing this once or twice. I'm going to be doing this 
> multiple times for a series of months and I'd like something automate the 
> process. In the future, if the experiment pans out, it'll be worth it to write 
> explicit code to do the parsing and the format checking etc. etc. and out 
> probably start from books using the epub format. But today, it seemed like it 
> would be so simple to use writer to do most of the heavy lifting for me. It 
> would be really nice if one could simply tell the writer to use writer (need to 
> come up with better names :-), hand the document to the editor who makes the 
> work readable and then they run a macro which converts a document to HTML form 
> and an automated process pushes the HTML form online.
>
> I hope that gives you a better understanding of why I'm trying to do this 300 
> word per page break up. It's probably a horrible abuse of writer to use it as 
> document prep. I'm open to other tools that could be used to do last-minute 
> adjustments and then automatic preparation.

OK, the experiment is really how good is the html code produced by
Writer for use in a web page with limited final editing of the html. 

Ironically, I am working on a couple projects that are similar to what
you are describing. The projects are to convert a few out-of-print books
to web pages for a very elderly author.

If you want, we can talk off list about more of the details of how to do
this.

-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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