Open Office, Word etc are word processors—they’re designed for formatting text, and so pretty much by definition they’re going to include formatting markup. If you want to write plain text for elsewhere, use a text editor, like Notepad (if you’re on Windows) or Vim, Emacs or Gedit (if you’re on an operating system, rather than a virus-support program).
I agree with AndrewHickey that using a text editor is best.
If you are really averse to writing HTML by hand though, there is Amaya, which is a web editor/browser that should generate very clean HTML if you don’t explicitly set style properties. I haven’t used it for years though and can’t easily install it on Linux, but anybody on Mac or Windows should be able to install it fairly easily.
I suppose its too much to hope that open office does better?
Open Office, Word etc are word processors—they’re designed for formatting text, and so pretty much by definition they’re going to include formatting markup. If you want to write plain text for elsewhere, use a text editor, like Notepad (if you’re on Windows) or Vim, Emacs or Gedit (if you’re on an operating system, rather than a virus-support program).
I agree with AndrewHickey that using a text editor is best.
If you are really averse to writing HTML by hand though, there is Amaya, which is a web editor/browser that should generate very clean HTML if you don’t explicitly set style properties. I haven’t used it for years though and can’t easily install it on Linux, but anybody on Mac or Windows should be able to install it fairly easily.