What I was looking for was an easy way to go through the html-files I created before I formated them to mobi.
I used to use a simple text editor to go through the source and then check the result in a browser, but this is rather annoying with long documents.
While searching for a
simple WYSIWYG (
what you see is what you get) I was very close to desperation as there are thousands of them out there, some even free - but the main problem was that they created bulky code and there was no way to force them not to.
I know that bookdesigner is a tool to do it, but I never found it to be intuitive and I had a lot of trouble editing non english books.
Even though my requirements were simple (at leasts I thought so
) it took me a lot of tries to find the perfect program:
I finaly ended up with
kompoZer, an unofficial successor of Nvu.
It allows to
- edit the text directly in HTML view (WYSIWYG)
- also view sourcecode and graphical html-tags
- find and replace text in all the views
- create lists by simply marking the text and pressing a button
- disable the use of CSS elements (essential!)
You can even copy and paste text from your browser.
kompoZer is fast, stable and easy to use - I hope it will help some of you the way it helps me
