Re: CHAT: Finally! My conlang is now up on the Web...

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Daniel Seriff wrote:

> "H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> >
> > *Shrug*. I typed in those little tr/td tags manually :-) I've never used
> > Word before, so I really don't know how to convert its tables to HTML.
> >
> > What I intend to do eventually, though, is to write a meta-language for
> > defining things in my conlang, and have it run through a HTML generator
> > that inserts those tr/td tags for me automatically. It *is* very annoying
> > to have to type them in manually all the time (though cut-and-paste is
> > your friend).
>
> In my 6 years of maintaining my webpages, I have never once seriously
> used anything other than a plain text editor. Any program that purports
> to turn formatted text into HTML usually has a Bible-full of bugs and
> stupid programming decisions. I eventually just stopped taking chances,
> since it's far more difficult to go edit some screwed up HTML doc than
> to just do it yourself in the first place. And yes, cmd-C, cmd-V are my
> friends. ;)
<sheepish look>  I use my boyfriend's Win98 machine (because hooking up
my aging Mac is a pain) and Textpad (http://www.textpad.com), which I
find to be very adequate for my purposes.  I actually like coding HTML
manually...so much easier than Java or Dylan (though Dylan is more fun).

YHL