Re: Which outliners can export HTML code?

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Posted by n.lowe
1999-09-15 03:09:37

Well, one nice thing about Inspiration’s HTML export - which I used to think was a gimmick, but have started to find rather useful - is the way it automatically saves embedded graphics in an outline as GIFs with the appropriate name and link. It also does automatic tables of contents if you want them; automatically creates pages with header and end tags in place; and has options for single- or multiple-page structures. I imagine PowerPoint and perhaps even Word can do some of this now, though I haven’t tried their HTML export; Inspiration’s is a bit inflexible, but it gets the basic document structure in place, and it’s fairly easy then to tweak the actual formatting.

I recently did an 18-page subsite this way: put the content together as one big More file, used Send As to create individual More page files which I imported into Inspiration, and then saved each page as HTML, with a Nisus macro to tidy the code up after. It was very fast. All I then had to do was to add some hyperlinks, and restore some text formatting (like italics) that Inspiration is annoyingly too dim to translate. (http://www.rhbnc.ac.uk/Classics/NJL/Latin/, if anyone’s really that interested. The outline structure is still clearly visible. You’ll have to bear with the content.)

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