On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 6:02 PM, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 1, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 1:49 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>>> Text Wrangler is a free download from Bare Bones Software, see >>>>> http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ >>>> >>>> May not need it, i forgot i ordered office.mac with the new computer. >>>> I have fired off an email to fetch support to see what they suggest i >>>> do. I like the program for my site uploads. >>> >>> i think you'll find TextWrangler much more satisfactory than MS Word for >>> editing html and other text files; it's worth the time to download >> >> Absolutely. I can't imagine running a computer without a plain text >> editor ... I do most of my first draft writing work in TextWrangler >> first, then bring it into Pages for editing, revision and formatting. >> (My computer is a Microsoft Free Zone. ;-) > > Then you can't write for the NY Times -- or most other publishers. All of > whom want Word docs. Although I suppose there's a way of faking a word doc > with other software. Hardly seems worth the trouble to me, though. > Paul
I have text wrangler on the iBook, and use it for my html. I have tried doing documents in Appleworks and save them as word doc's but no one has had success opening them. thus office.mac. dave > >> >> -- >> Godfrey >> godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

