On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:22:18 -0500 Robert Derman wrote: > Alvin Lim Liangce wrote: > > > If you just need a good HTML or PHP editor, Notepad++ (and an FTP > > client) is good enough. > > > > Cheers, > > Alvin > > IMHO HTML itself SUCKS big time! It is very limited and inflexible as > far as formatting is concerned.
Correct, CSS is for formatting. HTML is not to be used for it on the whole. > I believe that every serious writer HATES HTML because of its very > serious shortcomings, and as far as I am concerned they can't come up > with an improved replacement for it soon enough! <snip> Actually HTML is excellent for writers. Writing is about the content, not the formatting or pretty setting out. In fact the only thing better for writing than HTML is TXT! > I tried to do a short textbook in HTML a couple of years ago, and had > to give up and do it in PDF because of HTML's severe limitations. You wanted full control of the formatting. With the web it is impossible to achieve this. The HTML can still be read by a screen reader or a text browser like Lynx, your PDF cannot. CSS is for the formatting of the web and is far more flexible. > Perhaps Writer was never intended to be an HTML editor, but as far as > I am concerned it is still the best one I have found so far. With > just a few minor improvements in the WYSIWYG area it would be by far > the best. There is also the fact that writers get so comfortable with > Writer that doing HTML with it rather than having to switch to some > other program would be far easier. WYSIWYG is possible on your own computer, but "What You See Is What They Get(TM)" is not! I recommend all writers learn to seperate style from content. Both HTML/ CSS and Writer try to achieve this in comparable ways. But the best way for a writer to achieve it is LaTeX. Try it: http://www.hi.is/~tpr/latex/index.html LaTeX stops the author fooling with styling and layout altogether while they concentrate on content, which is the writers job. The average employees productivity would also increase if they didn't muck around with trying to pretty up their documents. Something that they (we, i include myself here) are not qualified to do. The business that dictates the Templates and Styles to be used by employees saves time. Damn, i may as well leave the flameproof suit on after this email as well. ;) -- Michael Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
