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So Simple Text wouldn't open my html file to edit. "Too big," said Simple Text. A half dozen downloads for Mac text editors off download.com.com froze the computer on their way down.

Word, being word, made up its own kung fu HTML and spat out a gangrenous rhino of a file full of crazy characters and ugliness.

So I did what I do: I made [livejournal.com profile] runpunkrun help me. She valiantly stripped the file of all its nuisance HTML and sent it back, where I could, ostensibly edit it as a .txt file in Word and then manually make it a .html later.

Word had none of it. "Have some headers!" it shouted, muddying Punk's lovely p tags and css with its nonsense. "Have some forced line breaks!"

I cried and hid a little, and once more, Punk M. came to the rescue.

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Enclosed please find DVD bonus track commentary:

A new device is being tested [Farscape, John/Scorpius, J/A, R, 90k with commentary]


Hand coded and elegantly streamlined by Punk M. Whom I suspect you will find had more than a little to do with making the story itself what it is today.

Let me know how this all works out for you. This was completed by request of [livejournal.com profile] sorlklewis and your feedback keeps this company going.

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Then, if you're very nice, and if you know a good no-frills text editor for the Macintosh, I might even do another.

ALL HAIL PUNK.

Date: 2004-02-04 05:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unsated.livejournal.com
http://www.barebones.com/products/bblite/index.shtml

Download BBEdit Lite, even though it has been discontinued, you can still download it there... and probably other places.

It is like TextEdit if it was hit by gamma radiation and embued with superapplication powers.

Or soemthing.

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Date: 2004-02-04 08:12 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] vickita.livejournal.com
In complete agreement, here. BBEdit is the way to go. I use the full version in combination with Dreamweaver -- they talk to each other like a dream, and BBEdit has a grep function that makes it indispensable for me.

Haven't used BBEdit Lite in years so I don't remember what the feature set is on it, but full-blown BBEdit even has ftp support built into it, and a bunch of other nifty things.

*And* it won't put anything into your file that you don't want to be there, *and* it's just a gorgeous, elegant editor for plain text files of any kind. Yay, BBEdit!

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Date: 2004-02-04 03:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rliz.livejournal.com
Just thirding the rec for BBEdit, whether you use OS 9 or OS X.

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