Hi Lauren!
When will that be? Uhhh... [takes nervous look at growing collection of programming books]
Don't worry. They won't attack you. At least not, unless you attack them first. /carefully rebandages papercuts on both hands/
I'm thinking Word to simple HTML, then a script to convert opening and closing italics tags to asterisks. I'm hoping it'll be that simple.
Yeah, that *could/should* work with basic text stuff. I highly recommend saving it as docx (or odt), though. They're both zip-containers and contain the document as an XML file (yes, you can just rename them to *.zip and look inside
). Still tag soup, but you could automate a lot of it. Am still waiting for my .NET-based docx-to-UBB-code transformer to finish itself. Will probably have to lend it a hand sometime, though. Anyway, it's going to take the docx, extract the xml-document and pass that through an XSLT. And rendering nice plaintext instead of UBB-code shouldn't make that much of a difference. Probably more work to replace the ellipses, slanted quotes, m-dashes, etc, since they look just plain awful in ASCII...
Oh, and check out this one here:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.ziparchive-extractto.php Plus, I can help you out with the XSLT. If you're willing to wait till March a.k.a. free-brain-time.
Re doc vs. odt for the Archive. Yeah, I'm guessing you get more portability that way. But either way, Open Office has no troubles with regular text, so... OTOH, Word 2007 and upwards can also deal with ODT, no clue though about the earlier Words...
And please write some new fanfic!
Am working on it. Really. Managed an entire page in January. Okay, it's going to be a super short either way. And one that's season-themed. So, I'd better finish it till Monday after next.
Michael
