Dynamic Text Options?

I am building an addition to a company web-site that reads text dynamically and displays it on the page. My options are SSI (Server Side Includes) or just an ActiveX control with a rich textbox. The ActiveX control will simply take an .rtf file created by the content owner with ease, and everything looks very nice. ActiveX controls are a little more troublesome, however. The SSI can read right off the server straight from an html document. The downside here, is that when I try to edit a document in Word (saving as html), it looks like crap when it comes out. No single spacing, fonts sporadically change mid sentence, carriage returns get lost, among other bizarre junk. Anyone have any advice on this? I don't want to use CGI/Perl.

Thanks
Diver

Since you say CGI/Perl and don't mention ASP, I will assume you are
working with Linux/Apache. If PHP is available, I would look into it as it
is very much in the same vain as ASP. Yes, the language is not VB or
JScript but I found it quite easy to pick up. The alternatives aren't that
easy either. I guess you can go with the server-side include but that
means pretty much straight text. What I would look into is a VB program
that can take a straight text doc and format it in html just the way you
want it, rather than accept Word's formating. It could be in the form of
a file to be included inside a bigger html doc.

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