turning [x]html files into .odt files.


This may or may not be of interest to anybody who creates professional
typeset-looking manuscripts. I use vi as I have for 30 years simply
because my fingers know it. I can keep fingers on keyboard rather than
switch back and forth to mouse. Last night I used a very short php/html
file that used HTML and converted it [[[EVENTUALLY]]] to the open desktop
format. Just now I wrote a one sentence file, a2oofile, using vi/nvi:

"Good morning, people. It is so *great* to be back home."

Then using File -> Export, saved it as a2oofile.odt.


*) atom a2oofile [ creates a2oofile.html ]

The a2oofile.html file is:

<!doctype html public '-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN'>
<!-autotranslation from ASCII or ISO-8859.1 by Gary Kline, kline@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<! @(#) a2oofile.html translated from a2oofile !>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> <!your title here --> </TITLE>
<! your header lines here -->
</HEAD>

<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="whatever">
<META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="7 days">
<META NAME="author" content="Gary Kline">
<META NAME="copyright" content="\xa9 Thought Unlimited">
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#00FFFF" VLINK="#006633"><FONT SIZE="4">
<P>
&ldquo;Good morning, people. It is so <EM>great</EM> to be back home.&rdquo;

</FONT>
</BODY>
</HTML>



*) Then switer a2oofile.html

*) File -> Export [and select to save as the ODT] and you have a2oofile.odt

I began writing my ascii to markup suite in 1994; it was designed to do
ONE thing: to *word* into <EM>word</EM>. I've added only the left and
right quotes. atom does nothing else. i have tweaked it for 15 years;
never gave to it ports because I hate writing the docs. Anybody
interested in handing the port, please let me know.

gary



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