Apple Pages - export to HTML is awful

I recently used Apple Pages, the document editor, to produce a newsletter. Pages is an elegant and easy-to-use program. It made document creation much more pleasant than it would have been in Microsoft Word or LaTex (which I use for scientif document editing). What 's nice about it is the spare natural interaction -- the interface is well done and responsive. It does not have a lot of fancy features so for an long document, or a document where you need specialized control or fine tuning, it's probably not right, but if you want to assemble something quickly that looks good, it's a solid choice.

One huge gap though, is the utterly awful save-to-HTNL feature. I wanted to put my newletter on the web and expected this to work as it should. Even with a standard example document that comes with Pages, the "save for the web" feature is badly badly broken. It probably works for single-column documents, but anything fancy (like banners or multi-column) seems to throw it for a loop. The feature is so terrible I thought it must have been incompletely installed. No, this is how it works for everybody. It's so bad I think they might have been better off just disabling the menu item. Better not to fool people into thinking they can save to HTML, when so such feature is available. What a pity.