From: Graham Menhennitt <graham@...>
Date: 2012-06-28T18:24:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Copying text from MS Word and wrapping in HTML - help please

On 27/06/2012 20:12, Adam Holloway wrote:
> I build websites on a daily basis and use HTML all the time, but seem to
> receive content people want publishing in Word documents all the time
> and have to simply wrap text in paragraph tags, put ul tags around
> unordered lists and various other simple and repetitive tasks.
>
> Therefore I gather I could use Ruby to do some of these tedious tasks
> for me, but not sure how to do this.
I'm not sure that Ruby is the right tool for this task. Why not use 
LibreOffice to read the Word files and then export them as HTML. I'm 
sure it's possible to automate this in LO too, but I'll leave that up to 
somebody else.

Graham