[ale] Cleaining a doc->html ?

[Robert L. Harris]

That was part of the idea, I popped open my vi to look at it and
couldn't even read it.  Part of getting it to a base is stripping out
all the garbage and leaving behind the plain text but there's so much
garbage it's hard to get just the quality content instead of the M$
Quantity content.


Thus spake George Carless (kafka at antichri.st):

> I know this may make me seem like an arse, but I would probably be more
> concerned with cleaning up some of the style and grammar in the resume
> than with its size.  Things like the ellipses in your "strengths" section
> (which suggest vagueness or uncertainty), the misspelling of "planned"
> towards the bottom, etc.
> 
> Again, don't take this the wrong way.  I'm just trying to help.  Oh, and
> I'd suggest just taking the text and putting in the appropriate (x)HTML,
> rather than relying on Word and/or htmltidy -- it'll provide a better
> result and really shouldn't take very long.
> 
> Cheers,
> --George
> 
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > A while back when it was hitting the fan used word to touch up my resume
> > for a recruiter.  At that time I used Word's "save as" to save the html
> > as well.  I was looking at the stuff in my directory and saw this huge
> > honking file that was 65K instead of 8K like the rest.  It seems M$
> > bloated up my resume with a lot of crap.
> >
> > I think I remember something about a tool to clean up all that junk in
> > html documents that Word creates.  Anyone have any good tools for
> > something like this.
> >
> > Don't bother with the "don't use word" emails, out of work for 4 months
> > I'd use emacs if it put food on the table for my wife and kids.
> >
> >
> > :wq!
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Diagnosis: witzelsucht  	

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