Robert Goulding wrote:
... this isn't so different from opening up the
HTML in OpenOffice, changing the HTML "styles" to standard document
files and then saving as an rtf/doc.
Indeed, that's the way I've handled requests for a "Word version" of
docs at work. I've set up my macros to spit out reasonably good HTML,
that can at least be cleaned up with Tidy. Then again, I don't do
footnotes very often (or at all).
It seems to me that I'm going to have to learn OpenOffice's scripting
language, and figure a way to automate the inclusion of footnote text
contained in another file.
Perhaps what you could do is to modify the FS/FE macros to wrap the
footnote text in a div element -- something like:
[div class="footnote"]This is the footnote text.[/div]
There are XSLT scripts out there that will transform XHTML to RTF;
modifying one of those to handle your footnotes in line would
probably be the easiest way to deal with this situation.
-- Larry
P.S. On a slightly related note, I've been working on a way to
extract text from a PDF and transform it to markup based on font face
and point sizes. It's hardly automatic, given the myriad variations
in formatting, but I can get reasonable results... again, except for
footnotes.
