Hi Esther. Thank you very much.
Textexpander is a great aplication it can be used for a lot of things. Taco is a great aplication too. Annie. 2010/5/28, Esther <[email protected]>: > Hi Annie, > > This isn't really an HTML editing program, or a text-to-HTML > conversion program, but have you thought of using TextExpander? > TextExpander is an application for the Mac that lets you define your > own snippets that will get expanded into longer text, to save you > typing. The simplest use is straight substitution: e.g., you define a > signature string like "ssig" and assign it to a series of lines giving > your name and contact information. Then, whenever you type "ssig" (sig > with an extra "s" at the beginning), that string gets expanded into > your name, address, email address, etc. You'll usually choose strings > that won't be confused with real words -- doubling the first letter, > or using a character at the beginning is a good way to do make your > snippet definitions. TextExpander is much more sophisticated, because > it can specify formatting, so a snippet like "ddate" ("date" with an > extra "d" at the beginning) could insert the current date in your > correspondence, but in the format of your choice, such as "Friday, May > 28, 2010". There are also predefined groups of snippet definitions, > and there's a set for HTML. When you type the key, TextExpander not > only inserts a text string, but positions you in the string. So, to > insert a link, I might type the key, ",a" (e.g., comma+"a"), at which > point I'll hear a whooshing sound that indicates that TextExpander has > replaced this with the HTML code for a link, and positioned me in the > middle of the code to provice the link address, then I might paste in > the URL address with Command-V (or I could type this in), then I would > press the right arrow key twice to move past the end of the code for > the URL address and type in the word or words that I want the URL to > be linked to. To insert a level 1 heading, I would type ",h1" (e.g., > comma+"h1"), then type in my heading, then press the right arrow key 5 > times to move past the end of the code and continue typing. > > You can read more details about how to grab other predefined snippets > for TextExpander in my archived post: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg17037.html > (Re: TextExpander app on sale for $1.99) > > That post started as a discussion thread of the TextExpander iPhone > app on the viphone list, and was cc'd to this list because we began to > talk about the desktop TextExpander use. I think my instructions for > downloading the predefined snippets are slightly different for the > current version of TextExpander, which runs from an active app window > instead of a preferences pane, but should work in a very similar way. > > You can also read the Macworld article from a year ago, "Creative text > expanding" by Derik Delong, for examples of how he uses TextExpander > for inserting HTML tags using the clipboard, and how he uses > TextExpander's shell scripting capability to run commands without > having to switch to the terminal, so that he can (for example), check > how many words or characters were in text he copied to the clipboard. > (You'd have to change your snippet type to "Shell Script" when you > paste it's definition into the TextExpander library.) There are some > other suggested uses for TextExpander that appear in the article's > comments at: > <http://www.macworld.com/article/140527/2009/05/creative_text_expanding.html > > > > Finally, since May just asked about typing Spanish accents, I should > point out that the SmileOnMyMac blog also had a post last year about > how a user set up his own Spanish Accents snippets so that whenever he > typed sequences like "~n" (e.g., tilde followed by an "n"), this would > get turned into ñ (e.g., an "n" with a tilde sign accenting the > letter). There were several other definitions to speed up typing > accents on a regular keyboard, and the blog article gives a link to > download the user's Spanish Accents snippet definitions. See > "TextExpander 2.6 and Spanish Accents" for more details at: > <http://smileonmymac.net/blog/2009/03/24/textexpander-26-and-spanish-accents/ > > > > You can download a free trial of TextExpander from the SmileOnMyMac: > <http://www.smileonmymac.com/TextExpander/index.html> > The list price is $34.95 and there is a 90-day money-back guarantee. > They often run discounts during the time of major Mac events, so you > might wait to see whether there is a discount over the period of the > World Wide Developer's Conference during the week of June 6-11, 2010. > > Incidentally, my linked archived post explains that people who have an > iPhone and the TextExpander Touch app for the iPhone can sync their > desktop TextExpander definitions to their iPhone. I also use the > Simplenote app on my iPod Touch, which supports TextExpander's > definitions, so when I type in notes into this app on my iPod Touch I > can type accented words with these snippets. (This is another > predefined snippets preset group for accents, which is different from > the ones for HTML and Spanish accents described earlier.) > > Since the desktop TextExpander software works system-wide on the Mac, > you can use it with any editing app. TextEdit works fine for HTML, but > you should read the Apple Support document on how to set up TextEdit > as an HTML Editor: > <http://support.apple.com/kb/TA20406> > Otherwise, after the first time you save a document with a ".html" > extension, you'll find it will display as web page each time you try > to open it. Alternatively, you could use an editor like Taco for HTML > editing: > <http://tacosw.com/> > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > > On May 27, 2010, at Sarah Alawami wrote: > >> I would just wriet them in text edit first going to prefences and >> choosing the optioin to not ignore the html tabs. Hereis the link to >> tha tartical. >> http://webdesign.about.com/od/textedit/ht/edit_html_txted.htm >> On May 27, 2010, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: >> >>> Hi all. >>> >>> Is there an easy to use program, where I can import a txt file or a >>> rtf file, and then make it to html. I need to make some links and a >>> lot of headings in different levels. >>> >>> Best regards Annie. >>> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > 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/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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