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Newbie working with plain text: best practices for formatting etc?
Matthew Chagnon | Jan 22 2008
Hey all, I've searched far and wide online and am really surprised not to find very much info on this (perhaps I'm using the wrong search terms!). After reading Bit Literacy, I decided that I wanted to starting using plain text files more at work, especially for notes. Unfortunately, years of reading 43F has enhanced my fiddly nature, and I'm more focused on trying to format my notes "correctly," or at least to have some sort of standard to stick to. Does anyone have any best practices (or web resources) for working with text on a page? Currently, I find text files difficult to read (and line breaks confusing). Any thoughts? 26 Comments
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 KISS and TextSubmitted by zagrev on April 21, 2008 - 11:50am.
Keep it text. Don't format it. Just change the extension to ".html". This will cause it to open, by default, in the browser, which handles word wrap and fonts for you. Still pretty to read, still text to grep. Now, I hear people saying "But, that destroys paragraphs and other whitespace". That's true, but do you really need more than <p> to make it readable again? No! so that's my tip. Take it for what good it'll do ya. :) » POSTED IN:
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