Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:13:20 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The December 2003 WSFA Journal is available
  online
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 12:06 AM 12/22/03, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

>Sam uses some Microsoft software that generates some truly horrible
>looking HTML.  I clean up what I can, but a lot of it I have no idea
>what it does, so I leave it alone.  Since mine is a text-only account,
>I can't really tell what the graphics or the variant fonts look like.
>Also, I don't have the hardcopy Journal to work from until after the
>meeting.  Until then, I don't know quite what the Journal is supposed
>to look like.
>
>(Does anyone know what "MsoNormal" means?  It's not part of the
>official HTML spec, but it appears over fifteen *thousand* times in
>the online WSFA Journals, often several times per line of text.)

I don't know HTML but a quick Google seems to indicate that Sam is using
Microsoft Word to generate the code.  MsoNormal seems to mean to set
something back to Microsoft Office Normal, that is, whatever Sam has as the
standard.  Thus if he was doing something in bold that text might then be
followed by [something] MsoNormal to turn it back to regular text.

I may be wrong about this, of course, but from looking over some code that
I found online that's what it appears to do.

Elspeth