Software rec - notetab pro

I do most of my text editing using NoteTab pro, a programmer's editor which replaces Windows notepad (you can use it on a mac via WINE) and has some nice features that hugely simplify converting large documents to HTML etc.

http://www.notetab.com/

One that made my life immensely easier this time around is the "convert characters to HTML" command which converts extended characters such as £ and © and ¾ and the bloody Word "smartquotes" to proper HTML without having to look things up, and did the entire document (about 90k words) in about two seconds.

Another is block editing, where you can select a column of text and cut or delete it - VERY handy with some tables etc. and the directory file I mentioned in a previous post.

I probably only use about 5% of its features, but it's good and has never let me down. Strongly recommended!

Killed the last bug! (I hope)

OK, there's obviously something to be said for looking at things on a wide variety of platforms. Just looked at the HTML verion of FF XI in Firefox on the Linux box, discovered that one image wasn't appearing. Looked at it in the directory, couldn't see anything wrong, started panicking in case there was some really obscure bug... then realised I'd capitalised the damned file name, and of course it wasn't capitalised in the HTML. Windows didn't notice. The iBook didn't notice. But if I'd put that file onto a web site nobody would have been able to see it until I fixed the problem.

This obviously need to become one of my standard checks from now on.