curious_guy (imported) wrote: Thu Jan 22, 2009 2:16 am I write my stories with a text editor. Could someone who uses Word get rid of curly and smart quotes easily by exporting the file as ASCII, loading it into notepad and copying it from there?
All you have to do is copy it into Notepad, save it under a junk name, close and open it, and copy it to the HTML program. I use TEXTWRITER to compose the HTML and not a HTML editor. I like actually like writing the HTML. Textwriter is a Macintosh program and it has a utility that prefixes and suffixes lines with hypertext. Makes life easier on me.
Now if you already have the curlies in an HTML file, you have to convert them with search and replace. That's tedious. I did it for too many of my files.