Hi Harvey,
Thanks for the tips! I got a perfect solution from JJ, so I am going to use
that instead, but I will keep your method in mind for other projects.
-shawn
On Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 10:57:58 AM UTC-8 Harvey Pikelberger
wrote:
> Something you might consider, esp. if you want to keep things simple, is
> custom tags in your HTML -- simple HTML + CSS. There are ways of working
> with it that are pretty tight and minimal.
>
> For instance
>
> <dlg>"Hello everyone,"</dlg> <blu>John</blu> exclaimed. He looked at the
> crowed. <dlg>"Let's begin this conversation with a fun story."</dlg >
>
> <dlg> and <blu> are not actual recognized HTML tags, so they get
> interpreted as inline objects (like a <span>)
> In major broswers they are responsive to CSS, for instance
>
> blu {color:blue;}
> dlg {color:#aaa;}
>
>
> The shorter your custom tag names, the cleaner your document. Obviously
> be careful not to accidentally use existing short HTML tags (e.g. <b> <a>
> <li>) (actually, you can even use them, so long as you use CSS to define
> out their default properties)
>
> This approach can allow you to get pretty sophisticated quickly while
> keeping your document clean.
>
>
>
> Also, you might consider Markdown <https://www.markdownguide.org>.
> There's a whole world of developers out there whose goal is to simply HTML
> (the idea behind "Markdown" is to make "Markup" more abbreviated)
>
>
> On Dec 23, 2021, at 9:30 AM, Shawn Liebling <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi people! I'm not super technical, so simple explanations would be great.
>
> So, I am working on a huge project where it would really help to have
> certain elements color coded. Here is an example (numbers are not
> accurate):
>
> [John Smith] <3435,3549>"Hello everyone," John exclaimed. He looked at the
> crowd. <3685,3798>"Let's begin this conversation with a fun story."
>
> What I want is for the attribution ([John Smith]) to be a blue color, the
> number codes (<3435,3549>) to be very light grey so they don't distract
> me, the dialogue (text inside quote marks) to be brown, and the
> non-dialogue text to be black.
>
> I searched this group a bit and found a couple conversations that as
> asking a similar question, but there aren't any answers that work for what
> I'm wanting to do.
>
> So how might I go about this? I'm ok with adding a little code to make it
> work, but ideally I would be able to have something set up where anything
> within certain confines are color coded, like anything inside <> is light
> grey, etc.
>
> I am currently getting around this by having my file be in HTML and using
> the elements already defined, but it looks messy and I don't know what all
> the syntax means. Here is an example screenshot of my current workaround:
>
> <Screen_Shot_2021-12-23_at_8.55.16_AM.png>
>
> With that in mind, another question is; is there a definition somewhere of
> what items in the text color prefs are exactly? Like in the HTML section,
> what is an "anchor tag"? And in Markdown section, what is a "List item
> marker"?, etc.
>
> I figure if I can't easily set up custom defined coloring, then maybe I
> can save my files in another format and use the items that are already
> defined, especially if the code has minimal extra junk in it. For example,
> the <!-- --> comment is a little messy, so having something like <! > would
> be easier for me to deal with.
>
> I hope that all made sense. I'm still a bit of a BBEdit novice.
>
> Thanks much for any help y'all can provide!
> -Shawn
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