[Wylug-discuss] FLOSS Cross-platform Web-oriented Text Editor For Newbies

[David Holden]

On Tuesday 29 May 2007, Dave Fisher wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 01:31:33PM +0100, Samuel Wright wrote:
> > On 29/05/07, Dave Fisher <wylug-discuss at davefisher.co.uk> wrote:
> > >On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 08:45:51PM +0100, Roy Mac wrote:
> > >> Not sure what you mean by "whole-file indentation" ...
> >
> > Not really what you want, but xmllint[1] (available in cygwin) can
> > indent a file for you. So if you can set up a call from whatever
> > editor you decide to use, and replace the text you have with the text
> > filtered through xmllint.
> >
> > [1] http://xmlsoft.org/xmllint.html
>
> Thanks for reminding me about that.
>
> It's an option I would consider, if I could find some way of controlling
> its formatting.
>
> I think that most absolute beginners find it easier to grasp the basics
> of markup indentation, if the examples they are given show block level
> elements starting on new lines.
>
> In the output samples I've just produced, <li> elements niether start on
> a new line, nor are they indented within <ol> and <ul> elements.  This
> is definitely not what I want.
>
> Dave
>
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You could also consider http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

which gives you pretty fine control and I would also think is a good learn 
tool for beginners.

Dave.


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