I thought I had replied to this, but I don’t see any record of a reply from me.
I’m quite visual, but operate in different "modes." When I’m writing or doing layout design, I *have* to have things simple and intuitive and for layout, I need to see things as I move them around. But once I get into "programming mode," I can deal with HTML directly and have no problem with a more complex text editor or even vi or emacs - but there’s no way I could use one of those while writing! I’ve looked at Bluefish, but for my initial work, I need a good WYSIWYG setup. For now, and for the foreseeable future, I’ve decided I’ll use LibreOffice for HTML for the initial version - until I get it looking like I want it. Then I’ll keep two copies of each page I’m working with. On one I’ll use LibreOffice and do the visual editing. Then I open both versions in a text editor as I copy and paste and manually edit the HTML code for the other "live" version with all the form data and so on included. Overall, yes as Alex says, LibreOffice, as an HTML editor, is crippled. At some point I have a question on another issue I want to post relating to the HTML editor and how converting to HTML can seriously mung the whole layout of an ODT document. (But that’s a whole separate issue.) Unfortunately, Dreamweaver has the market and I don’t want to spend a ton (or, as it is now, a monthly subscription) for it and I can’t find a good HTML editor for OS X for a lower price. So thanks for the thoughts and comments, everyone. For now I’ll just use my "split" approach and do the visual, then keep the pages separate so I can keep my forms and such intact. Hal On Sep 17, 2014, at 3:20 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > How about using Bluefish or tinymce or a text-editor? > > Word-processors are not ideal for html editing. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > On 17 September 2014 18:02, Alexander Thurgood <[email protected]> > wrote: > Le 17/09/2014 18:07, Hal Vaughan a écrit : > > > Hi Hal, > > > > So, with nobody saying there’s a way to do this, I take it that it’s just > > not possible to do multiple forms in HTML documents? > > Probably not, AFAIK even the XML form support is just one page at a > time, and the HTML editor in LibreOffice has always been, well, slightly > crippled. > > > Alex > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
