My wife has taken on the job of maintaining our son's elementary school web page. Neither she nor I know very much about web/html/anything like that. The principal keeps the calendar now on windows using software called "calendar creator plus" that is, he says, not the broderbund version. He can give her a .csv file with lines like: 10/12/2004,9:00,,"Vision Testing (K,1,3,6,SpEd)",,Normal 10/12/2004,10:30,,2nd G to Titanic,,Normal 10/13/2004,,,ELP (Thurs. Sched),,Normal in it. My question is: can someone point us in a direction toward importing this file, converting it to html, and publishing it on the school website? BTW, Patrick, Google is my enemy here. Lots of hits, all of them either irrelevant else incomprehensible else off the air. I can parse the above using python and write something to emit the html, I suppose, but that must certainly be reinventing the wheel. Mozilla calendar claims to be able to import .csv, but not apparently in the above version of .csv. If we can persuade the principal to switch to something like mozilla calendar, is there some simple way to publish the calendar on the school website? Thanks, Henry Harpending
On Monday 11 October 2004 20:08, Henry Harpending wrote:
My wife has taken on the job of maintaining our son's elementary school web page. Neither she nor I know very much about web/html/anything like that.
The principal keeps the calendar now on windows using software called "calendar creator plus" that is, he says, not the broderbund version. He can give her a .csv file with lines like:
You can open a .csv file in OpenOffice and then save it as an HTML file, but you're still left with some formatting to do... It's a start.
On Monday 11 October 2004 07:08 pm, Henry Harpending wrote:
I can parse the above using python and write something to emit the html, I suppose, but that must certainly be reinventing the wheel. Mozilla calendar claims to be able to import .csv, but not apparently in the above version of .csv.
How about something like this: http://www.mechanicalcat.net/tech/pytaskplan/ -- Stephen If your desktop gets out of control easily, you probably have too much stuff on it that doesn't need to be there. Donna Smallin, "Unclutter Your Home"
Op dinsdag 12 oktober 2004 02:08, schreef Henry Harpending:
My wife has taken on the job of maintaining our son's elementary school web page. Neither she nor I know very much about web/html/anything like that.
The principal keeps the calendar now on windows using software called "calendar creator plus" that is, he says, not the broderbund version. He can give her a .csv file with lines like:
10/12/2004,9:00,,"Vision Testing (K,1,3,6,SpEd)",,Normal 10/12/2004,10:30,,2nd G to Titanic,,Normal 10/13/2004,,,ELP (Thurs. Sched),,Normal
in it. My question is: can someone point us in a direction toward importing this file, converting it to html, and publishing it on the school website?
BTW, Patrick, Google is my enemy here. Lots of hits, all of them either irrelevant else incomprehensible else off the air.
I can parse the above using python and write something to emit the html, I suppose, but that must certainly be reinventing the wheel. Mozilla calendar claims to be able to import .csv, but not apparently in the above version of .csv.
If we can persuade the principal to switch to something like mozilla calendar, is there some simple way to publish the calendar on the school website?
Thanks, Henry Harpending
Perhaps taskjuggler? http://www.taskjuggler.org/ -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
Thanks, guys. Everything suggested looks elegant, well designed, and way too much for our poor little school. With my wife holding my hand, wiping the fear-sweat from my forehead, saying "it's just like LaTeX but with different tags", I wrote python to generate calendar pages. It turned out to be a big nothing, an hour or so. We got started by pirating http://membres.lycos.fr/fredp/python/html_cal_code.html and going from there. Best, Henry Harpending
Henry, On Wednesday 13 October 2004 22:17, Henry Harpending wrote:
Thanks, guys. Everything suggested looks elegant, well designed, and way too much for our poor little school.
With my wife holding my hand, wiping the fear-sweat from my forehead, saying "it's just like LaTeX but with different tags", I wrote python to generate calendar pages. It turned out to be a big nothing, an hour or so.
Wait a minute. LaTeX doesn't intimidate you (or your wife, as the case may be) but putting together a simple, static calendar in HTML is daunting? There are tools that convert LaTeX to HTML, you know. Search with Google and you'll find several. I have no experience, so I cannot recommend or comment further, but perhaps this is an option that will work for you.
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Best, Henry Harpending
Randall Schulz
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:17:01PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
There are tools that convert LaTeX to HTML, you know. Search with Google and you'll find several. I have no experience, so I cannot recommend or comment further, but perhaps this is an option that will work for you.
Of course, you are right, and I have used them without ever looking at the HTML output. HTML, I decided years ago, would remain far outside my domain of understanding. But ugly necessity overcame me. At one point my wife said "this is a mess, we need a cascading style sheet." Now I have seen books on this at Barnes and Noble, right next to books on emacs. I have been using emacs for 25 years and I still don't have good hold on it. I begged her to leave it, I said we could put up with messy HTML, I shuddered about CSS. She summoned me a half hour later, saying cheerfully that she had written the CSS. At that point I relaxed a little bit, wrote python to emit html as she directed me, and it all worked out. The moral I guess is to keep a spouse around to kick you in the butt a lot. Best, Henry
Henry wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] calendars' on Fri, Oct 15 at 02:08:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:17:01PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
There are tools that convert LaTeX to HTML, you know. Search with Google and you'll find several. I have no experience, so I cannot recommend or comment further, but perhaps this is an option that will work for you.
Of course, you are right, and I have used them without ever looking at the HTML output. HTML, I decided years ago, would remain far outside my domain of understanding.
Wow. "LaTeX is easy" is not something I think I ever expected to come from someone who's scared to learn HTML. :) Of course, I find myself somewhat scared to learn emacs, but I regularly use fairly complex features of vi (vim), so who am I to judge?
The moral I guess is to keep a spouse around to kick you in the butt a lot.
I would definately agree that the benefits from this particular feature of a spouse far outweigh the aggrevation from this particular feature of a spouse. :) --Danny, who would've used perl and DBD::CSV or PHP and fgetcsv(), personally...
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