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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 11/25/21 11:49
Michael Laplante wrote:
> "oldwetdog" <oldwetdog@yehooD0Tcom> wrote in message
> news:1284mar84b1u083@corp.supernews.com...
>
>> Not only are there the added steps needed as above, but when you save your
>> file, even in ASCII Text mode, Word embeds characters which you then must
>> search for and remove.
>
> Hmmm, maybe you could expand on that. I use Word 97 and when I save as text
> there's nothing extra in my files.
You can get the special curly quotes, the ellipse character and such
sometimes. But I agree that Word can be an excellent way to compose your
content, its spell checker and grammar checker is very good and better
than most products dedicated to webpage creation. Just do not let Word
generate the markup!
>
> But, yes, there's a whole two extra initial steps involved. However, that
> inconvenience is more than offset by the tricks I described previously.
>
> Nor, I suspect, is this technique limited to Word. Probably Open Office,
> Corel products and similar could probably be adapted in the same way.
> Another trick -- if you use Word's styles, you can even define your own
> syntax highlighting. Create and apply text styles, vice paragraph styles.
Agree entirely. Word processors are very good at what they are supposed
to do, compose and process words. I see not problem to use the tool best
suited for the operation at hand (I do the same in fact). Composition I
use a word processor Word, image preparation I use Photo-paint, webpage
markup Notepad and Crimson Editor. I believe using more than one tool,
each specially suited to its task is a much better approach than these
all-in-one tools that really do not do any of the specialized tasks very
well.
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Take care,
Jonathan
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