Is there an offline HTML editor for writers?

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All of our writers and editors use Microsoft Word for document creation and a lot of what they create ends up on the Web. Is there a good offline editor with a flavor similar to Word that they could use to create their documents. Styling of the content should not be a concern, only producing semantic HTML (most documents they create could be done using only header and paragraph tags for instance). They have tried CKEditor and TinyMCE but it is still too foreign for them and it is online so they don't trust it not to lose their work.

Jason Christa

Posted 2010-03-17T15:42:15.840

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When you googled HTML editor, what did you find? Where there dozens? Do you have specific questions about any of the dozens of off-line editors? – None – 2010-03-17T15:44:23.127

Notepad++ perhaps – c0mrade – 2010-03-17T15:44:32.627

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Shouldn't this question be posted on http://superuser.com ?

– incarnate – 2010-03-17T15:45:46.603

@incarnate That's what I voted for. :-/ – ceejayoz – 2010-03-17T15:46:53.013

1This was closed as "off-topic". Shouldn't it have been migrated to superuser.com instead? – mipadi – 2010-03-17T15:51:25.993

1@mipadi Yep. I've voted to reopen so we can send it that way. – ceejayoz – 2010-03-17T15:57:23.490

Answers

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Notepad++ is a good editor for almost anything. http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/

Freiheit

Posted 2010-03-17T15:42:15.840

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Forgot to mention, its FREE. So no pain to try it out. – None – 2010-03-17T15:46:10.870

We're talking about people currently using, of all things, Word as an HTML editor. I have a feeling WYSIWYG is required, and last I checked, you won't get that in Notepad++. – None – 2010-03-17T15:48:57.190

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Have you taken a look at OpenOffice and its XHTML export? From what little I've toyed around with it, it produces very clean code - turns OpenOffice headings into HTML headings and so on. It even exports images as inline "data" URLs.

Pekka

Posted 2010-03-17T15:42:15.840

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Live Writer, Adobe Dreamweaver, Visual Studio.

sashaeve

Posted 2010-03-17T15:42:15.840

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