Best app for offline composition?

  • How do you old timers go about composing for WP? I think I’m doing the worst possible thing, which is use Word while manually typing tags in for formatting (italics mostly). After I’m done I just paste it into the WP composition box.

    There must be a better way. At the least, I’d really like to be able to see the italics without tags while composing, then click a button or something for last minute conversion to html. I tried using Word like this, but it had two pages of header garbage, plus paragraph and page break junk that WP does automatically.

    Another annoyance is that I sometimes cross post my entries on a bulletin board that uses “BB code” instead of html, so I have to search and replace <em> for [i], and so on. If anyone has a way around this, I’d love to hear it.

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  • My choice of a text editor is TextPad (https://www.textpad.com/). This is a text editor and but you can add on various plugin (syntax definitions, utilities etc).

    For Blog specific client-side editor, we have a simple WYSIWYG posting tool (for Wintel) called Zoundry Blog Writer (its a free download).

    WordPress support is at its early stages (i.e. developer release), so, anyone would like to try it, we would welcome some feedback (and bug reports).

    Follow this link for info on the dev release version:

    https://forums.zoundry.com/viewtopic.php?t=41

    Although we develop a blog editor posting tool, I prefer to use Textpad when it comes to designing whole web site content, working with JSP or PHP pages etc.

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