[bksvol-discuss] Re: Text EditorsFw: [bookshare-discuss] Re: txt files

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:23:52 -0800 (PST)

Thanks Dave and Shelley.

Cindy

--- "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Here is Dave's post on text editors.
> 
> 
> Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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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