[thelist] Is there any good HTML eady word processor?

[Olivier percebois-Garve]

IMHO it cannot be done without sacrificing a lot of control on the layout,
because paper layout and web layout have so different constraints.
 I would say that this is the reason of the "tweaking" of HTML at the 
end of the 90's with
table-design and use of spacer.
Seems that a lot of tools are offering a "clean Word processor code" 
that maybe one direction to
look at for you, another would be to use directly a web-based word 
processor. As far as I remember
xinha and fck editor both claim to produce xthml code know.
Look around openoffice also there is some xthml convertors under fast 
development.




Jose Hurtado wrote:
> Friends from the list,
>
> As probably all of you know, on ocasssion we like to use a regular word
> processor and type away. Unfortunately after typing and probably printing
> our creation, we usually intend to post that document in the web.
>
> This is where the nightmare starts... especially if you have ever had the
> misfortune of looking at MS Word's HTML format, which is really, really
> convoluted, ugly and a big mess.  So I usually write clean HTML first or
> even just plain text in textpad or BBEdit.  But this is not ideal either, I
> have to create two documents, one for print, another for web, and no good
> word processor seems to exist.
>
> I have tried AbiWord, an old version of Open Office, In Design and many
> more... so far NOTHING creates clean HTML or XHTML, and is at the same time
> a reasonably decent wordprocessor, for some reason I just can not
> understand, they all produce either awful, or mostly unusable HTML, and yes
> Word is the worst offender I have seen so far.  Dreamweaver has an option to
> clean it, but it's far from perfect... so back to writing clean text or
> straight HTML again.
>
> So is there a good word processor for the web?  Not a web-designer's editor,
> but a word processor that can actually write clean, readable, HMTL or
> XHTML?  Any suggestions will be most welcome!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Jose L. Hurtado
> Web Designer / IT Professional
> Toronto, Canada
>