Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Bloody Microsoft!

I just realized the sample chapters aren't formatting properly. It's just paragraph indentations, but they aren't there and aren't replaced with line breaks. So, cut and paste from bloody word doesn't work. Try saving as html; blogger doesn't like all that crap Microsoft includes in the auto generated html, and who can blame it? Try pasting to notepad - same loss of paragraph indents. Try RTF, that don't work. Word pad isn't here - did they remove it?

Sigh - I'll just have to take the time to put in the tags by hand. That will be a pain.

revised update - Word pad is there, but useless. Finally, I worked out, save from word to txt, it will insert 5 spaces for the indents. Open the resulting file with notepad. Then use find and replace to change 5 spaces to paragraph tag. Make sure wordwrap is turned off, cut and paste into the blogger edit html screen. The result is good.

By the way, the spelling check in blogger leaves an ugly mess of html behind it. Interesting.

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