[LMB] E-book! (now OT:)

[Dane McGregor]

On May 1, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Michael Bauminger"  
<lmblist at mikebomb.com>lwrote:

> On Monday, Apr 30, 2007 5:04 PM, Scott Raun <sraun at fireopal.org>  
> wrote:
>> This is also why I have an installed, working ConvertLit.
>
> The problem with this option is that the HTML files that EOS uses  
> to generate the LIT files are usually produced by Microsoft Word,  
> so they are *very* dirty. After using ConvertLit, you end up with  
> files that display words thatare connectedtogether likethis all the  
> time, plus other assorted formatting issues. ...

M$ Word is so famous/infamous for producing kludgey HTML code that  
DreamWeaver (one of the main Web authoring programs) actually has a  
built-in command "Clean up Word HTML."  It usually gets ~80% of the  
dreck out of the file, and decreases the file size by 20 to 50% in  
the process.

-Dane, database jockey & webmaster.