Re: XyWrites 4 and 5 (was: RE: Dataviz and xyW)

[Richard Giering dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks again
 I use lots and lots of white space when I'm
editing my "normal" material for, as you say it
makes for much easier editing
 BUT IT CAN'T HELP WHEN WORKING WITHIN "
" TO
"
" MATERIAL!
Thats what I referred to.
Dick

Dorothy Day wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Richard Giering wrote:
>
STRIPED...
>
> Dick,
>     Best suggestion is to use *lots* of whitespace--carriage
> returns, indenting, etc. in your markup. It won't have any effect on the
> rendering by the browser, but it makes editing much easier (I might even
> say possible--who can make sense of stuff that's run together and full
> of tags?) And if you have lots of tags in a PRE section, set your Xy
> textwidth to very wide so it won't wrap.
>
>     The other suggestion is to get an editor that has tons of clip
> libraries for inserting different types of tags. NoteTab Pro is the best
> I've seen, and registering the shareware is now a whopping $19.95 I
> think (used to be $10). Its website hosts uploaded clibbook libraries
> from users who share their creations, and while this means a fair amount
> of redundancy, it's easy to select those you like and modify them to add
> your own tagging favorites. Nothing like XPL--anyone can do it. And the
> display of your file as you edit allows you to set color preferences to
> set off different type of markup--tags, URLs, comments, etc. can each
> have a different color of your choice. For more (and a one-month trial
> version), see
>
>     http://www.notetab.com/ntp.htm
>
> Any of the shareware repositories will have other html text editors
> listed, but this one really stands out, in my view.
>
>     Dorothy
>
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> Dorothy Day
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> Indiana University
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