[A6] RE: Tips and Tricks doc v2.00 released, including html v ersion

[Robert van der Kamp]

On Tuesday 13 May 2003 21:35, Chad Gould wrote:
> Not yet at least. I wouldn't mind frankly if Alesis
> posted it on their web site, or it got linked at
> code404's site, though.

Yes, I would have expected it on the 404 site. Hint hint. ;)

> Oh, no problem. Sometime when I have time, I'll go
> through the archives and extract any other good
> information that has come up. Time's a bit of a bitch
> these days, but I'll give it a go when I get a chance.
> Maybe one weekend in the next couple of weeks I'll sit
> down with a cup of coffee and paste in comments. :)

Great!

> Your formatting is an easier way to deal with it actually
> so I'd probably edit that directly. :) What process did
> you use to convert the document? (That would make it
> easier for me to edit the base document.)

I took your original .doc file and loaded it into 
OpenOffice, running on Linux.

Next, I hand edited each and every line to remove hard 
returns and explicit formatting (e.g. bold, font type, etc) 
and applied a paragraph style on the text. I now have 
styles for chap headings, chap subtitle, entry headings, 
entry heading subtitle, body text, quote1, quote2 and 
quote3.

Next, I changed the looks of the styles to my liking, 
chaning the layout of the document only by editing the 
*style*, not the text itself.

Then I added a table of contents.

OpenOffice allows a document to be saved as .doc, .rtf, .pdf 
and other formats. The single-file .html version is 
actually a OpenOffice format, but I created a emacs-lisp 
function that changed the HREF and NAME entries of all the 
links in the generated html document.

That's it. Your best bet is to take the .doc file I created 
and go from there. If you stick to the style technique in 
the current and new entries you have total control over the 
looks. Don't know if M$Word allows exporting to pdf and 
html, but I guess it will.

I'm glad you'll continue to work on the doc. This also 
officially kills my little update project. Please download 
the source file from one of the links below. The .sxw file 
is the native OpenOffice format from which I did all the 
work.

Cheers!
Rob

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Download Chad Gould's 'Andromeda Tips and Tricks' document:
http://home.planet.nl/~robnet/a6/A6TipsAndTricks.html
http://home.planet.nl/~robnet/a6/A6TipsAndTricks.doc
http://home.planet.nl/~robnet/a6/A6TipsAndTricks.rtf
http://home.planet.nl/~robnet/a6/A6TipsAndTricks.pdf
http://home.planet.nl/~robnet/a6/A6TipsAndTricks.sxw