[CentOS] converting .doc to html

Fri Jun 22 20:40:49 UTC 2012
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Warren Young wrote:
> On 6/22/2012 8:40 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>
>> wvHtml works,
>> but I don't like the output - it insists on <div>, and on &rhquo instead
>> of plain, simple ".
>
> You mean ”?
>
Yup.

> What's wrong with that?  You wanted HTML, and *any* browser will
> understand that HTML entity, even Lynx.

Hate it. I think it's completely unnecessary. I've done web pages,
including professional and corporate ones, and never needed it. I use
special characters only when there's no other option.
>
> If you wanted "HTML I can read like an e-book", I'd say you should be
> converting to Markdown instead.  One path from Word to Markdown would be
> unrtf (https://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/) to HTML, then HTML to
> Markdown via Pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/).

How 'bout html I can read like wordperfect <alt-f3>?

       mark