In converting the site to Movable Type format, we’ve run into a problem we’d like to share with readers with HTML design experience, since we’re sure there’s a solution out there.
We’d like to convert some pages from the older site into its new format, but haven’t found a way to do so in a way that preserves the internal links. For example, this is the old page collecting posts relating to medicine, but this virtually linkless equivalent is the best we have been able to do in the new format (at least without a staggering amount of hand-linking).
The problem is that our old format employed almost entirely relative links, i.e. links that pointed at a related spot within a directory tree rather than an absolute location. Is there a way to pick up one of the old pages so that its links register as absolute, and can then simply be pasted into the Movable Type entry box? Advice welcome, and we will try to publish at least a sampling of responses.
Update: see Aug. 4 for reader suggestions and the extremely simple solution that proved feasible.
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