Re: [Bug-gnupedia]Submissions in Word Format

[hooker]

> "Hook" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Now I *know* you're joking !  Have you actually *tried* that?  And
> > actually displayed the result, or, even worse, looked at the
> > resulting HTML -- it's barely stardard, has huge amount of
> > superfluous junk (including MS-only font definitions), and has no
> > structure at all.
> 
> If we decide to accept HTML as a submission format, then we must be
> prepared to deal with any conforming HTML, no matter how ``yucky'' it
> might be.

I know :-(.  However, there's an issue in that comment of mine which
relates to the current "shall we, shan't we" discussion about MS Word. What
about the proprietary items included in the HTML generated by MSWord? 
Things like MS fonts, for example?  What should be done about MS generated
HTML's absence of structural tagging (last time I looked, <hn> was never
generated, even if the original document had a "heading 1" included from a
template)?  These issues are going to trip us up if we insist on the easy
conversion of MSWord to HTML.

Paul