Re: UKNM: Repurposing text

[Duncan Clubb]

Carol


We are currently extracting about 450 pages of text (an entire book) out of a

quark file for insertion into a database-driven web site.  Having spent quite

a while looking at the options, we came to the conclusion that the only

sensible way to guarantee results was to do the bulk of the extraction work by

hand (not as onerous as it sounds!).  The problem we found was that none of

the tools or quark extensions would generate html or html-friendly output in

quite the way that we wanted it - if we had used an automated system, we would

still have had to do a lot of hand cutting at the end.  Thus, we are using an

intern to sit at a mac for a couple of days, cutting and pasting the relevant

text into a simple input form, which gets dumped into a database, and have

written a database application to generate the fully-formatted html that we

will serve on the web.  We are, however, extremely fanatical when it comes to

having clean code on our sites - also, unless the original designer who

produced the quark files was thinking web at the time, then the page layout

may well be rubbish when rendered in html.  If your requirements are not so

strict then some of the commercial quark extensions may help.


Aye

Duncan



Carol Dukes wrote:


> Does anyone know of either any applications, or of any agencies, for

> repurposing fairly large quantities of Quark Express (and possibly

> Pagemaker) files into something more like HTML?

>

> Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

>

> Carol

>

> Carol Dukes

>

carolbtinternet [dot] com

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