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Re: [trinity-users] Re: [users] Re: [users] WYSIWYG HTML editor that outputs clean HTML code?

From: Kate Draven <borglabs4@...>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:43:37 -0500
> On 2019-01-30 11:37:32 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > Anno domini 2019 Wed, 30 Jan 10:27:58 -0600
> >
> >  J Leslie Turriff scripsit:
> > > On 2019-01-24 01:23:39 Felix Miata wrote:
> > > > Kate Draven composed on 2019-01-24 02:08 (UTC-0500):
> > > > > Aye, it seems opensuse doesn't have it. pclos has it.
> > > > > I don't know if it's useful to you.
> > > > > Also, you can try installing Seamonkey,which has the same web editor
> > > > > as part of the suite. Assuming opensuse has it as a package.
> > > >
> > > > I use openSUSE and SeaMonkey, but I wouldn't expect "clean" HTML code
> > > > from it, or any other WYSIWYG editor. All my HTML editing is done with
> > > > plain text editors.
> > >
> > > 	I agree.  The problem is with the WYSIWYG concept itself; the code
> > > generator doesn't have any intelligence, either syntactic or semantic, 
so
> > > when one is creating or maintaining a web page with such a package, it
> > > can't normalize the markup, it just keeps inserting More markup to make
> > > the final page look right.
> > > 	It's possibly worthwhile to use such a tool when all one needs is a 
very
> > > simple webpage, but then, it's just as easy to write the markup directly
> > > with a text editor.
> > >
> > > Leslie
> >
> > Have you ever looked at "zim", the desktop wiki? Besides note taking etc.
> > (what I use it for on a daily base) it can be used to generate static html
> > sites. No extra stuff added, just the templates you defined. The zim
> > homepage was created with that, too: http://zim-wiki.org/
> >
> > Nik
> 
> 	That sounds useful; I will take a look.  Thank you.
> 
> Leslie
> 
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I checked out Zim. I like it so far. I need to play with it a little more.
It seems promising.

Thank you, it's greatly appreciated.

Kate