Looking for an html editor

[James A. Donald]

When I format my html, I will do it in source view, thank you, because
any html editor that presumes to output code, outputs crap.

But I would like an editor in which I can edit plain text in WYSIWYG.

I tried Seamonkey, and found that it is not ready for prime time - it
does not remember what files you recently used, it keeps doubling the
carriage returns, so that one's source view gets sparser and sparser,
and it keeps inserting <brwhen it should insert <p (There is an
option to turn this misbehavior off, but it does not turn it off in
all the time in all cases.

I tried NVU, and it also had the bugs with carriage returns (this was
a long time ago, and maybe they have fixed since then, but when last I
checked, no one was fixing known and serious bugs in NVU)
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[James A. Donald]

On Wed, 30 May 2007 15:29:20 +1000, James A. Donald
<ja****@echeque.comwrote:

When I format my html, I will do it in source view, thank you, because
any html editor that presumes to output code, outputs crap.

But I would like an editor in which I can edit in WYSIWYG.

A lot of what I want would be served by a script that converted html
strict to some more edit friendly form and back again, for example
replacing </p><pby a pair of carriage returns.
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We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because
of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this
right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state.

http://www.jim.com/ James A. Donald

[Manuel Collado]

James A. Donald escribió:

When I format my html, I will do it in source view, thank you, because
any html editor that presumes to output code, outputs crap.

But I would like an editor in which I can edit plain text in WYSIWYG.

XXE (XmlMind XML Editor) is a near-WYSIWYG XML editor. Has support for
XHTML and other document markups:

http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/

It's what I use for my webpages.
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Manuel Collado - http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado

[James A. Donald]

On Wed, 30 May 2007 17:26:23 +1000, James A. Donald
<ja****@echeque.comwrote:

On Wed, 30 May 2007 15:29:20 +1000, James A. Donald
<ja****@echeque.comwrote:

When I format my html, I will do it in source view, thank you, because
any html editor that presumes to output code, outputs crap.

But I would like an editor in which I can edit in WYSIWYG.

A lot of what I want would be served by a script that converted html
strict to some more edit friendly form and back again, for example
replacing </p><pby a pair of carriage returns.

Trying Kompozer now.
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We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because
of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this
right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state.

http://www.jim.com/ James A. Donald

[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html message <cm9q53h4hmuaoisoeln90lnn
d8********@4ax.com>, Wed, 30 May 2007 17:26:23, James A. Donald
<ja****@echeque.composted:

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A lot of what I want would be served by a script that converted html
strict to some more edit friendly form and back again, for example
replacing </p><pby a pair of carriage returns.

I don't actually have that; but the script behind the "Pack" button of
<URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/js-quick.htmcould be adapted to
consider <pand </pas newlines on input, and to separate paragraphs
with, say, \n</p>\n\n<p>\n on output.

It was actually written to deal with textual News articles with bad
line-lengths.

If the text is guaranteed not to contain, say, Hebrew, the input stage
could replace <brwith, say, Aleph, and the output could convert that
to \n<br - and maybe to deal with other markup.

It's a good idea to read the newsgroup c.l.j and its FAQ. See below.

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