Subject: RE: Using AbiWord for HTML
From: BOOTH,GEORGE (A-Loveland,ex1) (george_booth@agilent.com)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 09:51:47 CST
> The point that Dom made yesterday is: You don't need to import HTML.
> Create your webpages in AbiWord, and save them twice:
>
> 1. As HTML, so that IE etc. can view them.; and
> 2. As .abw, so AbiWord can re-import them - *without* any loss of
> formatting.
>
> Simplicity itself.
Oh, "save them twice". Thanks for the "AbiWord-for-Dummies" tip. When Dom
said
> I want to add that AbiWord isn't meant as a WYSIWYG HTML editor. I
> highly suggest saving your HTML as ABW docs too, and then editing the
> ABW docs as necessary. You can then auto-generate HTML.
my twisted mind pictured editing the .abw XML with something else then
converting XML to HTML with yet another something else. <sigh> It seems so
obvious now.
signed,
Chagrined in Colorado
George Booth
Development Engineer
Manufacturing Test Business Unit
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
815 14th Street S.W., MS AU100
Loveland, CO 80537
970 679 2477 Tel
970 679 5961 Fax
www.agilent.com
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