What is the best text editor for articles?

**trust44** · 22-07-2010, 09:07 AM

Hi

I'm sure this question is more technical relative to text editors than having much to do with article writing, so please excuse my limited experience with text editors. I do know that I have to find some tutorials on text editors to begin with.

But can the group give me their opinion on what is the best text editor for writing articles and also what is the best method for pasting into ezine?

I was formatting my article with numbering and bullits and I was encountering some incompatibility with the ezine text box. I eventually managed to resolve the conflict by simplifying the formatting through just writing my paragraphs just with spaces. I than saved this most basic format and proceeded to add my bullits, numbers and indent with minimal manipulation of the editor. Ezine has a button for Word, i selected it and pasted and it was perfect.

As I said I'm sure part of the problem is my lack of experience with text editors but i was hoping the group could share with me their experience with these issues.
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**Gary Smith** · 22-07-2010, 11:32 AM

For articles, basic is good. Most article directories don't allow much in the way of HTML. MS Word is about the worst you can use - it often puts weird characters in there that only appear when you paste it into a web page.

I use notepad on Windows and I'm sure MAC users have a basic text editor as well. There's really no need to use anything fancy for text articles.

Keep it simple.

**trust44** · 23-07-2010, 09:25 AM

Thanks guys for the help.

**Linda McIntyre** · 23-07-2010, 10:33 AM

Good old Notepad works for me
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**shannonpaul2** · 04-10-2010, 10:57 AM

As per my information, there are lots of text editors are available in the market..such as WYSIWYG, notepad ++, Boxer Text Editor etc..
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**Fendi Salim** · 25-10-2010, 03:52 PM

Call it old fashion but here's how I'll do it.

Write the article in MS Word. Edit, get synonyms, check spelling, word count etc.

Once done and finalized, copy to Notepad before submitting to Article Directories. This way you won't get MS weird formats.

Fendi

**johnriderv** · 18-11-2010, 05:52 AM

Mac's Text editor is good.

**LoneWolfMuskoka** · 19-11-2010, 01:52 PM

I have notepad++ (lite version which is free) and UltraEdit (not free) which I use for more programming oriented work (web pages, scripts and stuff). I like them both for different reasons but I think you'll find notepad++ is worth a look for articles.

If you're using MS Word, you might try exporting the document as html and then loading it into a text editor to remove the extra code (every thing from the top down to the <body> tag and then everything from </body> to the end). All you need is the stuff between the <body> and </body> tag (not including them).

You may also find weird characters in there and some of the HTML tags may not be allowed at different article sites. I've found some don't allow the heading tags. Some won't allow <strong> but accept <b> (which is old school HTML and not encouraged amongst developers). Some also don't allow <p> tags and you have to leave a blank line to indicate where your paragraphs break.

If you are comfortable writing HTML code though, the best bet is to do it yourself using a good text editor.

**JAMO** · 02-12-2010, 08:50 PM

Two things I use on my mac:

1) TextWrangler - pretty basic

2) Bean - I use this mostly because it gives me a running word count, so I know how much more I need to write ; )

**PWizard** · 03-12-2010, 11:28 AM

While I usually look to write in raw html (I guess the same reason I used to like to work in DOS) - I've even used Outlook Express as an html editor on many occassions.