Simple but decent web composition software

Joshua Judson Rosen rozzin at geekspace.com
Sun Jun 9 18:37:04 EDT 2013


"James A. Kuzdrall" <gnhlug at intrel.com> writes:
>
> 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
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