Re: i'm new at this

2010-01-14 Thread Bucky Junior
If you Export or Save As an html file (I think that Word does that) you will get an html file that BBEdit can open and work with. When displayed, your new html file will kinda look like you how designed it. Easily? BBEdit will open it easily but my experience with getting documents that

Re: i'm new at this

2010-01-14 Thread Rich Siegel
On 1/14/10 at 1:48 PM, buckyjunior...@googlemail.com (Bucky Junior) wrote: Easily? BBEdit will open it easily but my experience with getting documents that Word had made into html has been abysmal and frustrating. Try this: http://www.stg.brown.edu/edu/tips/word_to_html_with_bbedit_1.html.

Re: i'm new at this

2010-01-14 Thread klanxner
If you merely want to copy the Word text and then tag it with your own HTML, you can just copy and paste to BBEdit. Then --- from the Text menu -- apply Convert to ASCII and then Straighten Quotes. Then use Zap Gremlins to make sure you've found everything with the previous commands. That will

Re: soft wrap

2010-01-14 Thread diskerror
I tried a combination of choices of Honor saved state and Save document state without success. The document's wrap-state would always return to wrap to character width instead of window width like I wanted. I was having a problem with iTunes and found a solution that required editing the 'plist'

Highlighting a string

2010-01-14 Thread jan
I love the balance command in BBEdit and would like to have the same functionality within strings. By a string I mean anything that is surrounded by quotes (\' or \). So given my cursor position I would like to select the entire string around it just like the balance command does. It makes it

Re: Highlighting a string

2010-01-14 Thread Kendall Conrad
If it helps, here is some AppleScript I use for one of my scripts that deals with some selecting of text once I know the indexes. select (characters stPos through cursorLength of line (startLine of selection) of front window) That's inside a tell BBEdit type section. On Jan 14, 7:28 pm, jan

Re: I'm new at this

2010-01-14 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 19:48 +0100 on 01/14/2010, Bucky Junior wrote about Re: I'm new at this: First of all, I've seen huge blocks of code unnecessarily filled with CSS style definitions where it was completely insane. Then, the code is generally non-compliant with W3C specifications. Lastly, By knowing some

Re: I'm new at this

2010-01-14 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 13:59 -0500 on 01/14/2010, Rich Siegel wrote about Re: I'm new at this: On 1/14/10 at 1:48 PM, buckyjunior...@googlemail.com (Bucky Junior) wrote: Easily? BBEdit will open it easily but my experience with getting documents that Word had made into html has been abysmal and frustrating.

Re: Highlighting a string

2010-01-14 Thread Toadling
On Jan 14, 2010, at 4:28 PM, jan wrote: I love the balance command in BBEdit and would like to have the same functionality within strings. By a string I mean anything that is surrounded by quotes (\' or \). BBEdit's behavior seems to depend on the source language. With BBEdit's source