why no reply??

FredB · Newbie Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 3

Back on Dec. 15 I posted a question that as of yet has drawn not one response. It's enough to give a guy a complex! But seriously, I cannot understand why no one has an explanation. Is there no one in the OOo community that knows html?

Here's my question:

After copying some text from OOoWrite then pasting the text into a Dreamweaver html document, OOoWrite also adds Meta tags as well as CSS to the document. Why? Why won't it just paste the text without adding unwanted elements to the html file?

This isn't critical to me, I simply want to avoid Micro$oft whenever possible But if I have to keep on using Word I guess I will.

Fred

SolidSnake · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:18 pm Post subject:

Hmm...that never happened to me.What kind of text is it, by that I mean did you add any manipulations [i.e. Heading Size, highlight, color]?

Open Office knows what you've copied won't appear correctly unless it is accompanied by additional files.
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foxcole · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:23 pm Post subject:

I'm sorry I can't answer your HTML question, but I can answer the question in the subject line.

There are a few reasons why a post might not receive a reply. The most common reason, in my opinion, is because the answer already exists (usually in fair numbers) in the forum, the Help file or user guide. (I don't believe that's the case with your question, though.) This type of question has obviously not been researched before it was posted, and people sometimes get tired of directing users to the forum search and the documentation.

The second most common reason is how the question was asked. Rarely is a question given the proper technical information and background---so it amounts to nothing more than "I'm having a problem. Why?" Those can take a lot of work to just identify the real question and the user's level of expertise, and what they've already tried with regard to solving the problem. That gets to be a lot of work for those volunteers and dedicated forum members who regularly answer questions.

The third most common reason is simply that the question wasn't seen by the right set of eyes at the right time, and may have slid unseen down the queue. Though some forum members might disagree, it can be helpful to add a note to your question after a couple of days, to "bump" it back up into a visible position, and to let other forum users know the problem remains unsolved and of interest.

Does that help?

Good luck with your problem!! Wish I could have been more useful.
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David · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject: Re: why no reply??

Are you sure it's not your setup of Dreameaver? Try pasting into another HTML editor like [free] NVU and see what happens. I know other HTML editors will take a plain document and bloat it with their own HTML tags if saved from that editor.

David.

wditch · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:03 pm Post subject:

Hi

I didn't see your original post - that's my excuse!

This might or might not be relevant to your problem.

Writer is obviously a HTML editor as well as a general word processor. If you load a simple HTML file into Writer, such as:-

<html>
<head>
<title>My Test HTML Document</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello World!
</body>
</html>

and then go to View > Source, everything will be fine. The moment you alter a single character, Writer adds a big lump of metadata to the HTML file. This is of course no different to what a program like FrontPage would do. It might also add CSS in other situations.

That's why I'm a fan of Notepad - as far as HTML is concerned Wink

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David · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject:

FredB · Newbie Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 3

RonIA · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject:

Not familiar with Dreamweaver, but most applications today have a "Paste Special" option where you can force the application to accept the data a particular way. (OO.o has ctrl+shift+v to get to paste special.)
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