styling text

[Joel Reymont]

Is it possible to select text and link it to a URL like you can do in
Apple Mail?

What about italicizing text or making it bold?

I'm trying to figure out if I can use BBedit as a replacement for
Mail's Rich Text mode.

Thanks, Joel

[Fritz Anderson]

I'm confused. You are aware that BBEdit is a _text_ editor, and does not deal in rich text? Just characters, not italics or colors or variant fonts and sizes?

The File > Save as Styled Text… menu item just takes the syntax-colored display of a text file and makes an RTF file that displays the same coloring.

If you open the clippings palette while you're editing an .html file, you'll get an option to italicize selected text, but that just surrounds the selected text with <emph>...</emph>. It's still an edit of the characters.

— F

[Patrick Woolsey]

Joel Reymont <joe...@gmail.com> sez:

>Is it possible to select text and link it to a URL like you can do in
>Apple Mail?
>
>What about italicizing text or making it bold?

No; BBEdit deals with plain text only, i.e. although you can markup content
for external use, you can't apply display styles (or other meta-properties
such as links) directly to BBEdit documents.

>I'm trying to figure out if I can use BBedit as a replacement for
>Mail's Rich Text mode.

I don't think Mail knows how to handle pasted-in HTML markup (although
since I don't use it, I may be mistaken :-).

Regards,

Patrick Woolsey
==
Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com>
P.O. Box 1048, Bedford, MA 01730-1048

[Joel Reymont]

My assumption was that rich text in Mail is RTF and that BBedit could
somehow convert HTML markup into RTF as well. This way I could just
paste RTF from BBEdit to Mail and... email it to Posterous. I guess I
was mistaken!

Thanks, Joel

[Walter Ian Kaye]

There's a further issue there. Mail's "rich text" mode (someone told
me that feature was dropped in a previous version and that it only
does HTML now, but I don't use Mail so I don't know) is/was actually
"text/enriched" which is totally different from RTF, so the issue was
probably moot to begin with. :-)

-Walter

At 09:49 a -0800 12/31/2009, Joel Reymont didst inscribe upon an
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