[bksvol-discuss] Text EditorsFw: [bookshare-discuss] Re: txt files
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:10:35 -0500
Here is Dave's post on text editors.
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From: <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 8:22 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: txt files
Hi Kellie, Cindy, and Shelley,
I like the SemWare Editor (T S E), which provides the user with a great
deal of flexibility in customizing it to their personal preferences. If
you do a search on the web, you'll probably be able to find it fairly
easily. If nobody comes up with a link for their web site, I'll find 1 and
post it later today.
There are also a number of free editors in the Blind Programmers library, I
haven't used them, but others using screen reader and braille displays have
and recommend them.
They are under the link to:
General and Miscellaneous
at
http://www.blindprogramming.com
Cindy, unfortunately I can't recommend any editors for you since you're
working on a Mac, but I'm sure there many out there. A text editor is
basically a stripped down word processor, which usually saves in ASCII Text
format. They are usually line oriented, rather than whysiwug (what you see
is what you get). What I mean by line oriented, is that you have a line of
text, a line feed / carriage return, page break, etc. They don't typically
save font info, do fancy print jobs, or go overboard with other special
attributes. Most people now a days find them useful for writing source
code for program compilers, and as simple note takers. It could be said
that Windows NotePad is a text editor, but a very inflexible one at that.
HTH
Dave
At 04:12 PM 10/2/2004, you wrote:
>Hi Dave,
>Can you suggest any editors, besides Kurzweil and presumably OpenBook,
>Which
>do txt files with page breaks etc maintained? What you said about companies
>using bad txt types to force conversion to their formats makes a lot of
>sense--obvious maybe but it hadn't occurred to me.
>Thanks,
>Kellie
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