'Re: HTML' - MARC

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List:       openoffice-discuss
Subject:    Re: HTML
From:       "G. Roderick Singleton" <grsingleton () openoffice ! org>
Date:       2003-10-23 13:12:57
Message-ID: bn8k47$n2j$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Steve Holstein @ InterPrep.com wrote:
> At 12:10 AM 10/23/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> Steve Holstein @ InterPrep.com wrote:
>>
>>> At 05:58 PM 10/22/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Steve Holstein @ InterPrep.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks. One more question. I'm trying to move away from Word for 
>>>>> creating some daily html documents; the version I have doesn't do 
>>>>> well. At first it appeared OOo would act just like a word processor 
>>>>> while in html 'mode' but I see that on bulleted lists it's throwing 
>>>>> an extra space in before and after the list. I noticed this when I 
>>>>> viewed my demo html document in a browser.
>>>>>
>>>>> What I want to see is what we all see in a list within a document:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> TITLE OF LIST
>>>>>
>>>>> - List item
>>>>> - List item
>>>>> - List item
>>>>>
>>>>> TITLE OF NEXT ITEM
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What I see in my browser after saving an html in OOo is:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> TITLE OF LIST
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - List item
>>>>> - List item
>>>>> - List item
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> TITLE OF NEXT ITEM
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Any reason why OOo is tossing in an extra line space. When I view 
>>>>> the raw HTML I see an extra <BR> thrown in for no reason.
>>>>>
>>>>> ???
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve
>>>>>
>>>> Just created an HTML test from new document, typed in a title, 
>>>> formatted to H1;
>>>> Clicked the Bulleting button, typed in "Bulleted Item 1" <ENTER>
>>>> Bulleted Item 2 <Enter>
>>>> Bulleted Item 3 <Enter>
>>>> <Enter> (turns off bulleting)
>>>> Typed another Title, formatted to H1
>>>>
>>>> Saved document, switched to HTML source view, here's what I get:
>>>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Title of List
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    * Bulleted Item
>>>>    * Bulleted Item
>>>>    * Bulleted Item
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Title of Next List
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This has no extra blank lines thrown in.  I am led to ask, which 
>>>> version
>>>> of OOo are you using?  Did I misunderstand you and you are creating the
>>>> document in Writer and exporting it to HTML?  If that's so, perhaps
>>>> there is a problem in the HTML export filter.  Please enlighten me/us.
>>>>
>>>> Matt Needles
>>>> OpenOffice.org Instructor
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm using the latest version of OOo and I'm creating an HTML document 
>>> in it (not converting to HTML).
>>
>>
>>
>> I see from your reply that the code didn't pass through on my email 
>> message.  It got interpreted as HTML source by the email server or 
>> client and you can't see what it actually generated.  I've posted the 
>> page to my website as
>>
>>
>>      http://needleswebs.com/OOoStuff/ListsTest.html  (case is 
>> significant)
>>
>> Compare my results with what you get and see if you find a problem.
>>
>> Matt Needles
>> OpenOffice.org Instructor
> 
> 
> 
> Your list is not doing what mine were, but it is doing something 
> annoying, which I've recreated at http://interprep.com/test.html.
> 
> My second list on the above page has the <P> tag on each list item, 
> which double-spaces everything on the list. On the FIRST list on the 
> above page I manually removed the <P> tags.
> 
> Why are <P> tags in there? I want a nice, single-spaced list.
> 
> Steve


Steve,

Have you tried adjusting the style that you use? For example, use 
Default for the tight list and adjust the linespacing using "Fixed" 
would be one way.

Remember at best all word processors that produce HTML are a compromise 
and you must adapt the output.



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