My posting to the cms-list back on November 7, in response to a big ol' long thread (some 23 entries!) on the topic.
My own inquiry (pasted below, and available online at:
http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/cms-list/2012
elicited exactly zero replies!
Wm.
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[cms-list] Re: Cutting and Pasting from Word?!
From: William Reilly
To: cms-list@cms-list.org
I'd be curious:
== Has anyone ever heard from any Microsoft employee / defender / apologist on
any public listserv (or other venue) speak up about the how and why their
rendition of HTML-izing has to be quite so bad as it is???
I mean, we know why, I suppose: round-tripping to MS-Word being the central
raison d'etre for working with HTML, according to Redmond, but still...
== Are the new "File | Save As..." options in Office 11/2003 making any of
this appreciably better?
William Reilly
Somerville, Massachusetts U.S.A.
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On Friday 07 November 2003 peeter talvistu, wrote:
> It is hard to make it work 100% well, though, because Word's html is
> so - and let me be blunt - idiotic (thousands of <b> and <strong> tags for
> marking one paragraph bold for example).
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