Re: [docbook-apps] Pasting footnotes from DocBook-generated HTML into OpenOff...

Jennifer,

In my experience, the only decent output from Docbook to Word is when you 
use XFC to convert the FO to RTF. The RTF output on FOP is not at all pretty ;-) 
However, if you use the personal version of XFC it stamps RenderX on the bottom 
margin, so you really should purchase XFC so that does not happen.

 

Going from Word to Docbook without any restrictions is a bit harder.  
Copy and Pasting is way too tedious. What I have done to help convert existing 
Word docs to Docbook  is to use Majix. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/majix/) 
However, I had to modify it to output clean Docbook that is ready to convert. 
You still have to go in and clean up some "FIX ME" spots, but it is much fast 
than any other method I have seen - and less restrictive. I can make this 
modified version available, since Majix has not been maintained for over 5 
years.

 

Dean Nelson

 

 

 

In a message dated 9/24/2009 8:15:48 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
 writes:

That's 
  interesting.  I tried it on Ubuntu Linux with OpenOffice 2.4.1 and 
it 
  worked, opening my sample DocBook file as a word-processing document.  
  
When I tried on my Windows XP system, with OO 2.3.1 (what was installed 
  
there -- I don't use Windows very much and haven't kept it up to 
  date),  
I had the same result as you did.  Not sure if it is the 
  version, the 
platform, or differences between the Windows and Linux 
  environments.  I 
had actually used OpenOffice to convert from MS Word 
  to DocBook (with a 
bit of fixing up afterward, but still a lot faster than 
  cutting and 
pasting between documents) and had noticed this feature 
  described while 
I was researching how to do the conversions.  I guess 
  I didn't test
enough before recommending it.

Trying to move from a 
  Word dominated environment to DocBook (or any real
structured environment) 
  is tough, and the round-trip problem is a big one.
Bob Stayton actually 
  worked on a set of transforms to go from DocBook to
WordML and back.  
  It is in the SourceForge stylesheets.  Bob discusses
DocBook and 
  Microsoft Word on his excellent site at:

  
  http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/MSWord.html

The transforms 
  apparently support a subset of the DocBook elements.  He 
also 
  mentions some other 
  approaches.

Regards,
Larry

-----Original 
  Message-----
From: Jennifer Moore [mailto:] 
  
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:24 AM
To: DocBook Apps
Subject: 
  Re: [docbook-apps] Pasting footnotes from DocBook-generated HTML into 
  OpenOffice

Thanks Larry & Markus.

That particular document 
  is finished now (with a bit of manual tweaking 
at the end) - I was already 
  very close to the deadline when I wrote here.

But I'm still interested 
  "for future reference" in the possibilities.

Larry wrote:
>> I 
  am not sure which versions of DocBook and OpenOffice you are using
>> 
  or the platform you are working on, but OpenOffice can import some
>> 
  DocBook versions.  You set the document type to DocBook in the 
  Open
>> dialog box and then open the XML file.  

Tried 
  this.  The Open dialog box did offer me DocBook, and it did open 
the 
  XML file, but as XML!  showing all the <para> tags and so on.  
  Is 
there some other setting I need to use to make it behave as a 
  
final-formatted document?

Jennifer

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