On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 12:55 +0100, Clayton wrote: > > I'm afraid I would strongly recommend *not* using Nvu. It produces awful > > markup. It tends to use spans for everything, but doesn't delete them > > correctly if you change the format (eg from bold to italic). You then end > > up > > with nested spans which produce unexpected visual results, and to fix this > > you have to go into the markup anyway. > > > > I suggested Nvu to my son for a school project, but he got so frustrated > > with > > "why does this heading look different from that one, when I've told them > > both > > to be H1?" that I told him I would go through the markup and tidy it up for > > him. It took 3 hours to tidy up 4 or 5 pages, the markup was so awful. So > > never again! YMMV, of course. > > This is exactly my experience. I used NVU once in the past year... I > actually persisted with it for a while too. The nested span thing was > a nightmare. Everything is fine-ish if you create the content, and > then do the markup just once, but if you change your mind on anything, > then the nesting gets out of control, and do it a few times and you > webpage starts to do funny things. > > I ended up dropping back to a plain text editor to clean things up > (didn't have access to Linux for this work). > > On Linux.. I almost always use Quanta+. The ability to chose raw > code, or wysiwyg views is really nice.. and it (for me anyway) > seamlessly switches back and forth as I need it to. My alternative to > Quanta is Bluefish. >
OpenOffice produces some fairly clean code. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
