Simple but decent web composition software

[James A. Kuzdrall]

On Sunday 09 June 2013 11:03:33 Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I work for IBM, and use Symphony at work, but Symphony is based on
> OpenOffice. I have nothing against using Symphony, OpenOffice, or
> LibreOffice but my posts in HTML just end up looking terrible when I
> post them to Boston User Groups. They look OK in Symphony/OpenOffice or
> LibreOffice writer.

    Could it be the fault of the fonts that the HTML browser substitutes for 
the ones you use in LibreOffice?  I am using "Quanta +" 3.4 (only because it 
came with SuSE 9.3 and I am not a very good explorer - actually, 
interactively seeing what is produced is very handy).  I make sure the 
alternate font list includes those that are both close to what I use and 
likely to be on Windows or Apple.

    I started with the html output from OpenOffice 3.2, then modified it 
thoroughly using the recommendations from "HTML for the World Wide Web" 5th 
Ed byElizabeth Castro.  It really wasn't that hard to get my simple pages up.  
And, you will recognize that the individual topics are using a template.

    My font list is: "Verdana" "Humanist 512 BT" "Arial" sans-serif.  I use 
Humanist locally.  What the browser substitutes makes a big difference.  You 
can check my results at www.intrel.com/mea/index.html to see if yours or mine 
wins the "Worst Web Page" prize.

Jim Kuzdrall