I'm working on a redesign of my church website, and decided to use MT.
Like many churches, we publish a traditional hardcopy newsletter. Recently, this has started to be disseminated via email, but we still have a small group of folks that, in this day and age, do not have/want Internet access - let alone email.
In the interest of reducing/duplicating efforts I am trying to find a way to use Microsoft Word (it's legacy, not my choice) and the RSS feeds from MT. Ideally, Word would simply suck in all the current articles from RSS and my parish admin would be able to reformat, print and snail mail.
Has anyone done this?
Full Version: Creating A Newsletter In Word From An Mt Rss Feed
You can use Mt to generate WordML see http://www.sixapart.com/blog/2004/10/word_docs_from_.html. It is an old article, but it is a start.
QUOTE (OtherNiceMan @ Aug 24 2008, 05:25 PM) 
You can use Mt to generate WordML see http://www.sixapart.com/blog/2004/10/word_docs_from_.html. It is an old article, but it is a start.
Well, unfortunately a lot of that stuff is out of date and out of existence. What was there didn't seem to pertain to what I am looking to do.
If anyone knows of software, Office or other, that will allow someone to specify an RSS feed and then allow the user to edit the individual articles please post a reply.
Whih version of Word.
IIRC in Word 97 onwards you can do File -> Open in word and paste the url where you would type the file name.
IIRC in Word 97 onwards you can do File -> Open in word and paste the url where you would type the file name.
Bit of an ugly hack but if you create a index template call word doc with a output of sample.rtf the following code
will output an RTF document called sample.rtf with the last 5 entries at the root of your blog. You can then open up in word, tidy up and save.
CODE
{\rtf
{\b <$MTBlogName$>}
\par
<MTEntries lastn="5">
{\b <$MTEntryTitle$>}
\par
<$MTEntryBody convert_breaks="0" remove_html="1"$>
\par
\par
</MTEntries>
}
{\b <$MTBlogName$>}
\par
<MTEntries lastn="5">
{\b <$MTEntryTitle$>}
\par
<$MTEntryBody convert_breaks="0" remove_html="1"$>
\par
\par
</MTEntries>
}
will output an RTF document called sample.rtf with the last 5 entries at the root of your blog. You can then open up in word, tidy up and save.
I use FeedBurner serivice for my RSS Feed
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