Posted by dorayme on 12/11/05 03:13

> From: Leonard Blaisdell <leo@greatbasin.com>
>
> In article <oglmf.3579$rq3.3409@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com>,
> Chris Beall <Chris_Beall@prodigy.net> wrote:
>
>> Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>>> In article <nvNlf.140$iv.40@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com>,
>>> Chris Beall <Chris_Beall@prodigy.net> wrote:
>> (snip)
>>> I believe, but could be wrong, that Textedit saves as RTF by default. No
>>> idea why. I have no idea what the default for Appleworks is, but I doubt
>>> it's text. Have her make sure she doesn't do a 'Save' but does do a
>>> 'Save As' on her file, and saves as text.
>
>> That was the problem. All is now well.
>
> If she is at all serious about publishing HTML from a Mac, I suggest she
> get TextWrangler from Barebones Software at <http://www.barebones.com/>.
> It's free!
> It's big brother, BBEdit is not cheap but has all the bells and whistles
> to make it a great editor for a slew of languages and markup.
>

Yes, good advice Leo. I am just moving to X myself, and got this
TextWrangler and it looks like a good replacement for BBEdit Lite.

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dorayme

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