Good morning, Netizens…
Earlier Jeanie mentioned offhand that she uses Wordpad in Windows to cut-and-paste into the administrative panel and when I tested it (using the only Windows box I own) it worked just as it should NOT. I should never be held captive against my will to using Windows. I have spent about a fourth of my adult life fighting against being pushed into using proprietary software routines, and I simply will not buckle under to it now. I owe Jeanie a box of cigars for her idea.
Wine, the Windows emulator, is one of the most hotly-contested software applications that has been created in the last decade. Sitting at my Unix prompt, I can run some (not all) Windows applications just as if I were running Windoze. In my frustration I had forgotten about Wine’s emulation of Wordpad for Windows, until just a short time ago. Presto! Although some functions, such as cutting and pasting URL’s to the Internet remain to be seen, I have it working.
Write in Open Office, cut-and-paste into Wine’s Wordpad and then paste it into the online form.
It does seem to be working. I’m so glad. Now I can get back to the actual job of writing for the Blog.
Dave
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Ron_the_Cop on November 14 at 10:02 a.m.
Dave,
I do it the old fashion way. I just key bang into the box provided by Ryan. Ryan doesn’t allow hotlinking unless he’s upgraded their program. The best you can do is cut/paste the entire URL link. I haven’t tried HTML coding on the fly recently though.
Dave Laird on November 14 at 1:21 p.m.
Good afternoon, Ron…
Only half my network actually is accessible to/from the Internet, which creates a problem when I am writing new Blog material, since I cannot access the Internet from there. However, now that I have Wine working correctly, I’m back to the old system of before, using Open Office, and everything seems to be running smoothly.
I’ll try some more of the HTML stuff later on to make certain my scheme hasn’t broken something in the process, but for now I’m happy as a clam. I don’t know if HTML works in all phases of our current editor. However, I was told that Ryan is working on an MS-Word-compatible editor for us sometime soon, which would be really nifty.
Dave
JeanieSpokane on November 14 at 7:00 p.m.
No cigars please.
Wordpad works just fine. You have to hold your mouth right. :)