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 > juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. > Graduate Advisory Council > www.guidedogs.com > > The vision must be followed by the venture. It is > not enough to > stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. > > -- Vance Havner > ----- 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 > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com