[daisy] Editor I can paste from and preserve styles?

[Eric Rich]

Hi Allan,

We've recently converted about 400 pages of content from Word to Daisy. Most
everything copied over fairly well. We seemed to have better luck using
OpenOffice rather than the MS Word. I believe OpenOffice copied the bulleted
and numbered lists better if I remember correctly (I could be wrong). We
were happy to have any formatting preserved from Word during a copy/paste
procedure though, so we were not expecting everything to work flawlessly. We
also wanted to tag styles that were simply bold or italic in Word and also
add new styles. Given this, we didn't mind going through and fixing things
as we went through the content.

How much content are you looking to copy/paste? Of course you can always
write code to do the dirty work of importing from Word correctly (the code
really would not be that bad to write).

I agree the Daisy editor is not the best that it could be, but It'll only
get better though.

Take care,
Eric

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Allan Pratt <apratt at bestbits.org> wrote:

> Is there an editor on Windows that I can use for creating Daisy content,
> where I can copy from the editor and paste into the WYSIWYG Daisy editor
> and preserve styles?
>
> Microsoft Word almost works. It preserves bold and italic, headings,
> indented paragraphs, and even colored text, which the Daisy editor
> doesn't support. But it doesn't preserve bullets, which I would like to
> be able to use.
>
> Also, pasting from Word preserves "smart quotes" and things like the "em
> dash" and ellipsis ("..." as one character) which aren't really valid
> HTML: they only render properly for other people using Windows, and not
> always then. I know I can turn those off in Word, but I like them most
> of the time. I would turn them off in a document template that I used
> for wikis, but Word doesn't have per-document preferences for those
> features.
>
> Any other editor choices? If you want to know why I don't like using the
> editor that's built in to Daisy/FireFox, I will tell you, but it's
> beside the point right now. Thanks.
>
> -- Allan Pratt, apratt at bestbits.org
>
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