I agree that it’s a good work around, but I would still like to see how it could be done in Blocs, using the appropriate bric and perhaps customization as I mentioned in my original post.
Copying and pasting all of my outlines into the template like you’ve shown would be too tedious. They are about 10x longer than the example above, and contain one more level in some cases. There are about 25 of them, and I might have more jobs like this too.
I could imagine generating the html using VBA.
But I keep thinking there must be an easier way. Am I missing something simple?
Thanks, @Pealco That was really cool of you to make that video.
It’s still a time consuming way of doing it in Blocs 3. We’re sure hoping in the future @Norm will make this so much easier.
Now, this was not only a helpful website but funny.
@Pealco I really appreciate all the help you’ve provided. Based on your approach, I’ve come up with a workflow that I’d like your comment on:
I save my original Word doc (containing the long formal outline) as .htm
double click to open the .htm file in Chrome browser
right click to view page source, and copy the html
paste into a Blocs code bric
Although the online html editor you recommended worked great, and I love it’s ability to produce simple html, it has 2 problems for me: 1) after a few uses it requires a subscription, 2) I prefer to stay away from tools which may change in the future.
Item (2) is quite important to me because I’ve been around a while and seen a lot of things come and go. I hate the ugly html that Word produces, but I can just close my eyes and copy/paste it without too much pain. The result is beautiful and Word is a tool that will always be around.
It’s a time consuming thing to do on any web site. HTML web sites are not well suited to these type of old text layouts designed hundreds of years ago.
What you could do however, is to use one of the many text apps that will take different text input and export or other formats. I use Quiver which has such a function, and you could create the text in Markdown or possibly just plain text, and then export it as HTML and then paste directly into Blocs.
in preferences in Open and Save tab go to "Options to save in HTML and choose HTML 4.01 Strict (I’m translating from Portuguese, so it could be different, sorry for that)
Then in Format Menu - Choose “allow hyphenation”
Copy/Paste from Word or Pages your work to Text Editor.
Save as…
Name and in the end choose the html format.
HTML bric in Blocs…
And Voila… everything is ok with a clean html code…
I think this method cover your “future concerns”… check it…
@Pealco this method produces much cleaner html – thank you!
I had to fiddle with TextEdit quite a while before I could even see the html export option because I think had it set up for exporting plain text earlier. I restored defaults and kept fiddling with it until I saw the export as html option.
This is a workable solution and I’ve marked this question as solved.
Although I enjoy Blocs very much, it seems to me that there are things like this that are missing – so we need the code bric to come to the rescue. Therefore, it’s really not quite to the point to where one doesn’t need to know any coding at all – at least not in my experience.
Urg, this one has limits, until you subscribe!
Does anyone have any good sources for doing this?
Live Editor with HTML5 / Script with Preview
What do you think of this one?
Hello @KBConcepts@handshaper@Tony in a different topic, this subject appears again, and I think I found 3 good solutions, hope they will help you in your projects:
OPTION 1:
Open word or pages, and save your work in docx format…
Go to THIS website and upload your file created in point 1
Copy the content from the left box when created. NOTE: DONT USE THE COPY TO CLIBBOARD BUTTON AS IT NOT COPY THE ENTIRE CODE.
Thank you for your words… it takes me a few hours from my time, but I like to help… and like more when some users like you, thanks me for the time I spend here…