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Freitag März 09, 2007

Dmitri Popov: "Publishing Writer documents on the Web"
"Let's start with the simplest scenario, where you need to convert a single Writer document into an HTML page. One way to do this is to use a pair of scripts: odt2txt.py and markdown.py. The first script converts the Writer document into a plain text file and turns the text formatting into markdown markup (you can read more about markdown here and here). You can then convert the resulting text file into HTML using the markdown.py script. To perform this transformation, simply download both scripts, unpack them, and use the terminal to run them as follows:"
Found here.
( Mrz 09 2007, 08:04:31 PM CET ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

"U.K. opposition leader calls for greater open-source adoption"
My colleague Patrick Finch just pointed me to these interesting and encouraging news. Here is a quote:
"Shadow chancellor George Osborne has called for an overhaul of the government's approach to open source, arguing that greater use in the public sector could save £600 million ($1.1 million U.S.) a year." Actually, there seems to be a typo in the article, £600 million translates to $1.1 billion U.S, not $1.1 million.
( Mrz 09 2007, 01:11:00 PM CET ) Permalink