*radio silence broken*

[geoviki]

I must post more.
I must post more.
I must post more.
I must post more.
Gah!

What does it say that I spent more time picking out the effing icon than deciding on content (Japanese pORn stars FTW)? What happens, see, is that it's been so long between posts that I have become overwhelmed by the sheer content of what I should have posted all along; therefore, I can't even wrap my mind around what I should say at the moment.

Or whom I'm even saying it to.

I know: I'll ask a question, one that someone may even be able to help me with.

I want to post "A Thousand Beautiful Things" to the Archive of Our Own. And so I need a program that will convert a Word file to HTML. A program that isn't Word, of course, which fills the whole friggin' thing with incomprehensible and useless code. I want clean, streamlined code. My file has some italics, yeah, but what's it really has is those bloody lyrics that needs blockquotes, but without extra lines and crap.

This program should be freeware or online.

Also I may be travelling to Geneva, Switzerland, very soon. Any tips?

Comments

[terrio]

You might want to check out FLAG, which will let you download fic from a number of different sites, including Skyehawke, in a variety of different formats, including HTML. You may need to do a bit of cleanup, especially in the "style" section, which imposes wide margins and a blue background... but that's about 20 lines of code that can safely be deleted in about 30 seconds. (Seriously, just whack everything between <style type="text-css"> and </style> and you're golden.)

eta: forgot to mention that it will automatically download all of the chapters of a multi-part story for you and put them into a single output file.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Ooh, this works nicely! I can see using this to capture stuff for Kindle reading. And it put together ATBT in a snap.

Stupidly, I did all the formatting ahead of time in the Word file and was hoping to not have to re-reformat stuff but it doesn't look like anyone's got tips for converting that way.

Thanks!