Exasperation

[tamaranth]

I work for a cutting-edge technology company.

And that would be why I am urgently amending our website, for a huge product launch, using gedit -- which has neither tag-highlighting, WYSIWYG, or a monkey that steals icecream tells me when I can't type properly.

ETA: And I type 'type' advisedly -- the text has been supplied to me in two formats:
- dead tree with coloured annotations
- a PowerPoint presentation, which crashes OpenOffice Every. Single. Time.

(The site is not actually in HTML, despite my best efforts. But it will be next time -- either that, or someone else will be doing it.)

I still love my job. But the one you love always hurts you.

Comments

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

ISTR using TextPad at Birkbeck - which I think does have highlighting and limited monkeys. And the eval copy is free, which means if you only need to use it in the short term, you may be able to get what you need done during eval.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

this is so extremely short-term -- review version is supposed to be up by now! -- that I can't face locating, downloading and learning a new app. If today* were not the deadline I'd simply go home and do it on my nice plain basic text-only writing-machine ...

*not that we would ever leave anything vital til the VERY LAST MINUTE

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Oh pants. TextPad is basically pretty similar to NotePad, but with colouring and some monkeys. ddscribbler, our former WebGirl used it.

Good luck.

[akicif.livejournal.com]

And regular expressions, and able to edit multiple files.

I finished what should have been a three week contract with the QSA in under a week with it once (not as stupid as it sounds: the next job was a one week job tidying up the playstation website that turned into nearly two years - at the same emergency opne week rate)

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

And regular expressions, and able to edit multiple files.
[grin] Those were some of the monkeys I couldn't recall!
the next job was a one week job tidying up the playstation website that turned into nearly two years - at the same emergency opne week rate
Nice!

[avirr.livejournal.com]

If you want to send me the powerpoint, I can turn it into PDF or icky Microsoft HTML and send it back. Better than nothing?

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

WYSIWYG

Wasn't that a kids' tv show with Paul Daniels?

Suggestion / How To on reading your Powerpoints

[(Anonymous)]

Use the free www.zamzar.com service to convert between just about any format of anything, including powerpoint to HTML.

I'm in "how to" mode so nice as your site is to browse, pleasantries are to one side for the moment.

-Gideon