Chris B wrote:
> I usually do it by hand too but I tend to end up with fairly bland 
> looking results. I've tried Microsoft Office in the past and really 
> didn't like the generated html. I recently loaded a copy of OpenOffice 
> and I was planning to play around to see how that does at generating 
> html with sophisticated layout.

It does quite well, though there's always the arm-wrestling that goes 
on.  I would recommend the XHTML export rather than saving as the 
HTML/text format, it does a much better job of preserving the 
formatting.  Just don't expect it to respect all the settings that would 
apply to the HTML/text format.  A few other things I learned, fields 
generally don't export, if you add images make sure they are linked, 
hidden text fields turn into comments (but not hidden paragraphs.)

> When setting up the site we were asked to check that text format files 
> only contained ASCII characters. I don't recall any real discussion over 
> it at the time. I think there is some sense to it being ASCII though as 
> UTF8 might imply that using extended character sets is encouraged.

Well, an explosion of different character sets wouldn't be great, so I 
guess that keeps everything compatible.

> ps. I'm not convinced that very many people monitor this newsgroup 
> regularly, so you might want to add a little response to the existing 
> thread in povray.binaries.images.

OK, I'll do that, thanks for the tip.

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-The Mildly Infamous Blue Herring

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