re: Re: UKNM: Repurposing text

[Ben Scott-Robinson]

This is exactly the experience we had with converting a whole heap of translations into a resellers extranet. The code produced by automatic/WYSIWYG HTML generators tends to be ropey/extremely heavy (yes that includes Dreamweaver) at best, and totally unusable at worst. The best method is develop your 'apple/control c' skills and a well written, well commented template..


Ben



> ** Original Subject: Re: UKNM: Repurposing text

>

** Original Sender: Duncan Clubb <duncan [dot] clubboffworld [dot] net>

> ** Original Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 16:55:30 +0100


> ** Original Message follows... 


>

> Carol

> 

> We are currently extracting about 450 pages of text (an entire book) out of a

> quark file for insertion into a database-driven web site.  Having spent quite

> a while looking at the options, we came to the conclusion that the only

> sensible way to guarantee results was to do the bulk of the extraction work by

> hand (not as onerous as it sounds!).  The problem we found was that none of

> the tools or quark extensions would generate html or html-friendly output in

> quite the way that we wanted it - if we had used an automated system, we would

> still have had to do a lot of hand cutting at the end.  Thus, we are using an

> intern to sit at a mac for a couple of days, cutting and pasting the relevant

> text into a simple input form, which gets dumped into a database, and have

> written a database application to generate the fully-formatted html that we

> will serve on the web.  We are, however, extremely fanatical when it comes to

> having clean code on our sites - also, unless the original designer who

> produced the quark files was thinking web at the time, then the page layout

> may well be rubbish when rendered in html.  If your requirements are not so

> strict then some of the commercial quark extensions may help.

> 

> Aye

> Duncan

> 

> 

> Carol Dukes wrote:

> 

> > Does anyone know of either any applications, or of any agencies, for

> > repurposing fairly large quantities of Quark Express (and possibly

> > Pagemaker) files into something more like HTML?

> >

> > Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

> >

> > Carol

> >

> > Carol Dukes

>

> carolbtinternet [dot] com

>** --------- End Original Message ----------- **


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