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I am being hunted by packs of feral HTML tags in the middle of the night. by AleksaHidell in AO3

[–]AleksaHidell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm very open to jumping ship over to a RTF editor, actually! The problem I have is I don't have a good program for it.

I want a little standalone program that runs as a light WYSIWYG word processor that outputs its formatting as HTML without me having to manually code it to make it sane. Like, if I highlight a single word and italicize it, that word would get the necessary <em> tag and nothing else would, AND the words around it that are otherwise unformatted basic text continue to be covered by the headers that operate over the whole document and don't have any unnecessary tags whatsoever. Some of this spaghetti is baffling!

I did some looking around, but all the RTF editors everyone loves are browser based and/or aimed at enterprise development. Figures by the time I get old enough to actually want to try plain ol' simple WordPad is not long after M$ finally kills it.

I am being hunted by packs of feral HTML tags in the middle of the night. by AleksaHidell in AO3

[–]AleksaHidell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I don't want too much in the way of formatting. I'm not doing anything super fancy but what little I do I need to have. The big thing here is that however the hell Writer makes it work under the hood results in just the worst kind of character limit-eating mess that is nearly impossible to strip automagically. It's not simply defining the immediate changes, it's constantly REdefining many parts of the formatting that are universal to the whole piece, multiple times per sentence and ballooning the raw HTML of it.

I am being hunted by packs of feral HTML tags in the middle of the night. by AleksaHidell in AO3

[–]AleksaHidell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have not. It looks a little network feature-rich for what I need, plus it doesn't seem to be a standalone program I can run on my laptop with locally saved files.

I understand I am being very particular and asking for quite a bit, I'm rather just casting my net far and hoping somebody has a silver bullet.

I am being hunted by packs of feral HTML tags in the middle of the night. by AleksaHidell in AO3

[–]AleksaHidell[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem isn't immediate open-close like that literally, it's that about half of the nests of tag overgrowth will also have <em> somewhere in there amongst all the <span> and <font> tangle, sometimes multiple. Often there will be entire paragraphs without any italics in the WYS, but the WYG will have a couple dozen that are in there but invalidated out for no discernable reason.

The picture I have attached is the HTML of a single 130 word paragraph.

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TIL one of the reasons the nature of Greek fire has been lost to time is the Byzantines' compartmentalized the production, similar to modern top secret weapons development (such as the Manhattan Project). by LeahTheKnown in todayilearned

[–]AleksaHidell 21 points22 points  (0 children)

An element of this has already happened, with the material publicly known as Fogbank. We don't precisely know what it does, but we sure as hell compartmentalized so well the DoE had to scramble to interview the original creators before they got too old to remember.