[pmwiki-users] Formatting Word documents to Pmwiki friendly pages

Chris Cox ccox at airmail.net
Mon Oct 3 16:07:03 CDT 2005


Rene Visco wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Do anyone know of any software or procedures that can remove the bullets and
> tabs from Word documents to be wiki-friendly?
> 
> For example, I got the Hurr. Katrina educational resource guide in .doc
> format.  So, I made the test "plain text" in TextEdit (similar to NotePad in
> PCs).  
> 
> However, it did not remove the bullets or tabs.
> 
> I spent a few minutes deleting the tabs (which forced markup boxes) and
> removing the bullet characters from the page.
> 
> It can be time-consuming if dealing with several .doc files. I can make it
> as download links instead of posting it in wiki pages, but I prefer to have
> it accessible in wiki rather than downloading the .doc files from the wiki.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

If you are using Unix/Linux (sounds like you might be), I'd
use the wv tools.  Might be possible to write a XSLT doc to
take .doc straight to pmwiki markup lang.  But I can't
confirm that.




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