Comments on: Things That Should Exist http://www.joerybicki.com/2009/03/19/things-that-should-exist/ writing, music, videogames, and other flights of whimsy Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:54:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: po http://www.joerybicki.com/2009/03/19/things-that-should-exist/#comment-5105 po Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:20:13 +0000 http://www.joerybicki.com/?p=532#comment-5105 Joe, Even I can relate to this. My suggestion: Write your own damned code and make a million dollars off of selling it! I will be first in line to buy it! love you, po Joe,

Even I can relate to this. My suggestion: Write your own damned code and make a million dollars off of selling it! I will be first in line to buy it!

love you,
po

]]> By: Paul http://www.joerybicki.com/2009/03/19/things-that-should-exist/#comment-102 Paul Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:44:12 +0000 http://www.joerybicki.com/?p=532#comment-102 Do you work on a Mac? Would something like <a href="http://tuppis.com/smultron/" rel="nofollow">Smultron</a> help? I don't think it has the cool features that one would use Word for, but it's good for mark-up... Do you work on a Mac? Would something like Smultron help? I don’t think it has the cool features that one would use Word for, but it’s good for mark-up…

]]> By: Joe Rybicki http://www.joerybicki.com/2009/03/19/things-that-should-exist/#comment-96 Joe Rybicki Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:46:21 +0000 http://www.joerybicki.com/?p=532#comment-96 Marc, something like that would be so very helpful, even if it involved copying and pasting back and forth. Putting it back into Word isn't too much of an issue because an editor can always copy and paste without formatting, and so preserve the markup correctly. Marc, something like that would be so very helpful, even if it involved copying and pasting back and forth. Putting it back into Word isn’t too much of an issue because an editor can always copy and paste without formatting, and so preserve the markup correctly.

]]> By: Marc http://www.joerybicki.com/2009/03/19/things-that-should-exist/#comment-95 Marc Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:03:43 +0000 http://www.joerybicki.com/?p=532#comment-95 I feel your pain, man! As a web designer, I learned really early on that Word is the root of all evil when it comes to HTML markup. The company I work for had similar complaints when it came to our press releases, since our PR department would only send them over to us in Word. For a long time we just had to go through and clean them up by hand since we were looking for a similar tool you were and had pretty much the same results. Even the "Clean up Word HTML" feature in Dreamweaver doesn't catch everything. Luckily a guy I work with is pretty handy with ASP coding and such, so he just created a little tool for us to use. We can now copy any text from Word, paste it into a small window, and it will spit out complete (and correct) HTML code, even replacing special characters (like copyright symbols) with their HTML counterparts. The gravy of all this is since it was built in-house, it's totally customizable so we can endlessly tweak it for those perfect results! I don't know how "classified" this tool is for us and I don't know how much tweaking would be needed to put it online for all to use, but I'll definitely bring it up to my co-worker and see what he thinks. The main issue would be copying everything back into Word once you have it formatted, since as I said, Word is the root of all evil when it comes to HTML markup. Who knows what that program will do when you type any kind of code into it? I feel your pain, man! As a web designer, I learned really early on that Word is the root of all evil when it comes to HTML markup.

The company I work for had similar complaints when it came to our press releases, since our PR department would only send them over to us in Word. For a long time we just had to go through and clean them up by hand since we were looking for a similar tool you were and had pretty much the same results. Even the “Clean up Word HTML” feature in Dreamweaver doesn’t catch everything. Luckily a guy I work with is pretty handy with ASP coding and such, so he just created a little tool for us to use. We can now copy any text from Word, paste it into a small window, and it will spit out complete (and correct) HTML code, even replacing special characters (like copyright symbols) with their HTML counterparts. The gravy of all this is since it was built in-house, it’s totally customizable so we can endlessly tweak it for those perfect results!

I don’t know how “classified” this tool is for us and I don’t know how much tweaking would be needed to put it online for all to use, but I’ll definitely bring it up to my co-worker and see what he thinks.

The main issue would be copying everything back into Word once you have it formatted, since as I said, Word is the root of all evil when it comes to HTML markup. Who knows what that program will do when you type any kind of code into it?

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