Thanks for the helping hand. It may be that a perverse outcome of lowering the price is that BBEdit falls into the hands of more mugs like me, and support demands go through the roof...
On Jul 20, 10:55 pm, Roland Küffner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 20.07.2011 um 13:44 schrieb amc:> Just tried to set up a text factory, and > didn't get what I expected. > > The factory is simply set to > > > Tidy:Clean (discard empty paragraphs) > > Change Line Endings (to Windows) > > > What I got was HTML output, with my text turned into Body text. I > > presumed I would get plain text, transformed. > > > I also expected to be able to save the file to another location. The > > "Save" button simply saved my existed file as HTML, with no options > > for alternative locations. > > > Do I have a flawed understanding of text factories, or is this a > > glitch? > > No, you understood it right. But Tidy is a special HTML clean-up tool that is > meant to correct HTML files. Instead of this step use a "Replace All" action > and replace (^\s*$)+ with nothing (make sure "Use grep" is activated). > > > Lastly, can a text factory be made to run on any open document - that > > is, I want to make this conversion a one-step hotkey process, and so > > want it to run on the front-most Bedit file automatically, without > > having to select a specific file. Is that possible? > > Yes. If I understood the release notes of BBEdit 10 right, all you have to do > is to save the textfactory in the "Text Filters" subfolder in your Support > folder (usually located at ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/). > > Windows > Palettes > Text Filters gives you a little window to access those > filters. It also has a little button to at a keyboard shortcut. > > -Roland > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > > "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > > <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> > > If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, > > please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. > > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
