Re: easy markup of postings

Aric,

Thanks for the suggestion. I checked and already implemented HtmlArea in a 
test environment.
Looks good and yes, you are right, this is a far better solution than 
messing around with the Word files.

Thanks,
Peter

At 00:10 17-06-2003, Aric Caley wrote:
>Another, and IMHO better, option might be something like this:
>http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/ which lets you do wysiwyg
>editing right in the page.
>
>or, what about possibly employing some kind of ultra simple markup, like
>that used on WikiWiki sites?
>
>Trying to convert word files into nice HTML isnt going to be easy, I think.
>You'll either get a huge jumbled mess of HTML code and style sheets to
>exactly duplicate the look; or something much simplied but doesnt look
>exactly the same which will likely confuse and anoy the user who expects it
>to work and look exactly the same...
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Peter Termaten" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 1:54 PM
>Subject: [phpslash-users] easy markup of postings
>
>
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > End users of my phpslash environment expressed the need for an easy method
> > of marking up their postings. They don't see it as particularly
> > user-friendly doing the html markup to the articles by hand. They can
> > handle <b> <i> and <u> tags, but it is too complex already when they need
>a
> > bulleted list or a link. They also want an easy way of adding graphics to
> > their articles.
> >
> > Since most end-users are familiar with MSWord and use this little program
> > on their desktops, it could be a nice solution to let them do the editing
> > in Word. Conversion software should be able to pick up the edited file and
> > convert it to proper HTML, graphics included.
> >
> > I'd like to know if anyone knows (opensource) conversion programs that can
> > do this job properly.
> > I checked wvWare, which does a reasonable job. Unfortunately, it doesn't
> > seem to handle the graphics in the file in a correct way.
> >
> > All suggestions are welcome.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Peter Termaten
> >
> >
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