[daisy] Editor I can paste from and preserve styles?
Allan Pratt
apratt at bestbits.org
Wed Mar 5 18:42:20 CST 2008
Is there an editor on Windows that I can use for creating Daisy content,
where I can copy from the editor and paste into the WYSIWYG Daisy editor
and preserve styles?
Microsoft Word almost works. It preserves bold and italic, headings,
indented paragraphs, and even colored text, which the Daisy editor
doesn't support. But it doesn't preserve bullets, which I would like to
be able to use.
Also, pasting from Word preserves "smart quotes" and things like the "em
dash" and ellipsis ("..." as one character) which aren't really valid
HTML: they only render properly for other people using Windows, and not
always then. I know I can turn those off in Word, but I like them most
of the time. I would turn them off in a document template that I used
for wikis, but Word doesn't have per-document preferences for those
features.
Any other editor choices? If you want to know why I don't like using the
editor that's built in to Daisy/FireFox, I will tell you, but it's
beside the point right now. Thanks.
-- Allan Pratt, apratt at bestbits.org
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