From: Michael Shigorin <mike@...>
Date: 2012-06-28T21:02:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Copying text from MS Word and wrapping in HTML - help please

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 06:24:11PM +0900, Graham Menhennitt 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.
> 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.

There are antiword and catdoc out there (but these would rather
handle .doc and not .docx).

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