Re: [Bug-gnupedia]Re: Submissions in proprietary formats

[hooker]

> Philippe Aigrain wrote:
> > In addition, I do not think that the rules above create any serious
> > bottleneck for authors of articles. And having them see how MSWord
saves
> > to HTML will even be educative :-)
> 
> One problem is that the HTML generated by the MSWord 'save as' function
> is evil.  Really evil.  Even if it is HTML, it is evil HTML, because it
> makes excessive use of stylesheets, etc.  It's basically a heroic attempt
> to preserve all of the stlistic niceties of a wordprocess in HTML, which
> is evil.
> 
> I have strong opinions about this, obviously.  :-)

I'm with you there Jimbo !  I've looked at the mess a number of times, and,
in the end, refused to use it on projects because it's completely
unmanagable.

Paul