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“ In Wordpad you can use an alternative. Right click on the desktop and create a new Shortcut. Use the URL for the command line. Name the Shortcut. Drag it into the Wordpad Document. It will function as any other Internet Shortcut. “

this is too complicated.

cant see images all the time, no png files but can see jpg

can change rtf to html with unrtf
Downloading UnRTF

post from open office sun weblog publisher

February 27, 2010 by tomaquinaskelly, posted in Uncategorized

ways of working part 2

if I use Jarte , I have to get the rtf up to the blog… research.

how do I get it up to the blog?

can change rtf to html with unrtf

Downloading UnRTF

try pasting directly….

OR:

If I use xmlnotepad , I could theoretically open the xml file and then post it to my blog with deepest sender.

stop here.

OR: find a good client

Windows live writer won’t save the post as rtf or anything else, just draft.

more…

use rtf because word wrap is easiest to deal with ; html won’t wrap unless you make a box or table. xml follows html. In an xml editor word wrap either doesn’t exist or doesn’t help because all the tags are visible.

so use jarte or abiword

search : rtf word processor

use abiword because saves in html? xml?

if I paste from Jarte, no styles or links appear; plain text only.

cant paste from jarte to deepest sender plain only

pastes into wordpad OK

search for upload/ insert rtf etc

search for copy paste rtf etc

does xml paste into html box?

February 27, 2010 by tomaquinaskelly, posted in Uncategorized

<!– @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } A:link { so-language: zxx } –>

post by dragging the text from open office to the open “add new post” visual editing box (not html)

ways of working part 2

if I use Jarte, I have to get the rtf up to the blog… research.

how do I get it up to the blog?

can change rtf to html with unrtf

Downloading UnRTF

try pasting directly….

OR:

If I use xmlnotepad, I could theoretically open the xml file and then post it to my blog with deepest sender.

stop here.

OR: find a good client

Windows live writer won’t save the post as rtf or anything else, just draft.

more…

use rtf because word wrap is easiest to deal with; html won’t wrap unless you make a box or table. xml follows html. In an xml editor word wrap either doesn’t exist or doesn’t help because all the tags are visible.

so use jarte or abiword

search: rtf word processor

use abiword because saves in html? xml?

if I paste from Jarte, no styles or links appear; plain text only.

cant paste from jarte to deepest sender plain only

pastes into wordpad OK

search for upload/ insert rtf etc

search for copy paste rtf etc

does xml paste into html box?

Results of testing wordpad and rtf

February 26, 2010February 27, 2010 by tomaquinaskelly, posted in Links

wordpad is not enough; no hyperlinks.

this is too complicated.

cant see images all the time, no png files but can see jpg

can change rtf to html with unrtf
Downloading UnRTF

ways of working

February 25, 2010 by tomaquinaskelly, posted in Links

I added deepest sender and locally xml notepad to keep track of my files here and on the web.
perhaps i could use something else, but i am sick of notepad because there is no word wrap.
So I am left with

1. learn xml? learn rtf with wordpad?
look at the programs that post html to blogs?
I don’t want to use Word or open office anymore because the text is not easily portable to a blog or website or another system like blackberry.
TBC – to be continued…

This leads to the question, what are the underlying principles for a work environment:

A) Try to kill two birds (or more) with one stone.

1. use the cloud

keep everything synched between local and cloud
three reasons for the cloud: storage, make public, and access from diff machines.
allow everything to be public eventually, but still have drafts
why not just post to a private blog, then make public? that is simpler…
TBC – to be continued…

and
B) Keep it simple

) try to be an amateur not a professional

a.) exclude complicated or incomplete options, eg tinymce, paid for software, etc.
b.) try a wordpress only posting editor; wordpress is the de facto standard (more on this below)
TBC – to be continued…

right now just trying a few options: wordpad, xml notepad, deepest sender.

I am basically making a substitute for the desktop/start environment.

Use wordpress as a standard; this is based on this thinking;

only use a blog because a website is to complicated. Joomla, for example, requires intense non amateur setup.
WordPress is hard enough. Assuming a free host like freehostia, setting up multiple blogs is non trivial. For example, the sql database must have a different prefix for each blog. This is not mentioned anywhere, so you have to make the mistake first and then talk to support (which is good and fast, but don’t lose any information by posting everything too soon; test it first)
Any human made website requires that a page has to be uploaded. This requires a login, and a switch to an ftp program. then copy the file over, then view the website in a browser, then navigate to the page. Changes require the whole thing all over again.
WordPress is the most standard or popular blogging software with plugins to do advanced functions. It covers the spectrum from easy (wordpress.com) to advanced.

Now, back to the beginning; eliminate notepad, move at minimum to wordpad. I still need to insert images and links. Lets check that out…
TBC – to be continued…

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