Posted by data64 on 06/02/05 05:19

"windandwaves" <winandwaves@coldmail.com> wrote in news:429e3952$1
@clear.net.nz:

> Hi Folk
>
> As a web editor, I often get text delivered to me in, for example, a Word
> document with the request to place it on a page.
>
> The problem is that Word and its cousins use all sorts of funny characters
> that should not be used on the page (e.g. MS specific characters).
>
> I am about to make my own text converter that cleans up all this business,
> but I was wondering if there are any tools out there that prepare text for
> web.... something nice and simple.
>


I would try Html Tidy first.
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

Specifically the word-2000 option
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html#word-2000

Also, Dreamweaver has some features to do something similar.

data64

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