Hello,

On Feb 18, 2006, at 8:25 AM, John Delacour wrote:

> At 5:13 pm -0500 17/2/06, Bill Steele wrote:
>
>> Text starts as Word document
>> Copy as styled text, paste into Tex-Edit
>> Use Tex-Edit replace and style run functions to convert to HTML  
>> (used to use convertToHTML OSAX in OS 9)
>> Read into Applescript variable
>
> Are you aware that in TextEdit you can open a .doc file and save it  
> as html thanks to Tiger's built-in Cocoa HTML Writer?  There's one  
> way to eliminate both Word and Tex-Edit Plus (I presume that is the  
> app you're talking about) in one foul sweep, as Aunt Eileen would  
> say, and end up with pretty well written UTF8-encoded html that you  
> then deal with.

And you can save your documents in html in Word itself -- at least if  
you use Word 2004.  Of course, you may not like Word's html  
conversion -- but you would be able to tweak the converted text  
afterwards.

Best regards,

Nobumi Iyanaga
Tokyo,
Japan