On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 09:45:21 +0100, Bob Williams wrote (in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):
> On Oct 1, 2006, at 0:06, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: >> I cannot live without resource forks. The main reason I never use >> BBEdit for HTML files is that I style them in Tex-Edit Plus with >> the styles saved in the resource fork so that I can upload them as >> text, thereby having my cake and eating it too. > > I have to admit that you seem to have hit on something that's new to > me. Can you describe in more detail what you're doing? Aside from > WYSIWYG editing, I'm having a hard time imagining what sort of style > you'd be missing in BBEdit versus another program. I used to use Nisus Writer (on the classic OS) for HTML editing as well as word processing and indeed all text editing. My very old PowerBook died and now I have an Intel iMac and so I can't use classic applications anymore. At present Nisus Writer Express (the new version for OS X) is not yet as capable as the old Nisus Writer and so for HTML editing I've started using BBEdit. It is quite a significant adjustment to go from Nisus Writer, which I used for many years, to BBEdit. I'm going to become relevant to your post now honest! Anyway one thing I greatly enjoyed about using Nisus Writer for editing HTML was that I could indent paragraphs. This meant of course that the HTML structure could be made more comprehensible just as BBEdit does using the "Format" command, but in the case of Nisus Writer, or indeed any word processor, the indentation is not done using tabs but rather simply by the word processor's indentation capability. With this sort of indentation then when dragging things around or cutting and pasting there was never an issue with tabs turning up in the wrong place and having to be deleted. Another great pleasure for creating clarity was that as you have the ability to change fonts and apply styles with a word processor you can make, for example all text with header tags bold and larger and you can also make all text with emphasis tags in italics, or whatever you like. With Nisus Writer you could have GREP find/replace which would go over the whole document applying these various styles to the elements. Also there was the very handy "invisible" style which could be applied to all tags and they'd disappear giving a surprisingly good overview of the HTML page you were creating. However once the resource fork is trashed all that is gone :) Please note that I'm only hoping to address the question you posed: "what sort of style you'd be missing in BBEdit versus another program" I'm not wanting in any way to start a comparison of text editors/word processors or whatever. I've only been using BBEdit for a short period and already I am discovering many fantastically good things about it as a text editor :) -- Patrick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Have a feature request? Not sure the software's working correctly? If so, please send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not to the list. List FAQ: <http://www.barebones.com/support/lists/bbedit_talk.shtml> List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/BBEditTalk.lasso> To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
