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Author: Sean Crist (Swarthmore College)
Email: kurisuto at unagi dot cis dot upenn dot edu
Date: 2004-10-14 17:29:02
Subject: Re: notepad & tags (probably a stupid question)
> Well, I've downloaded my first page of Cleasby & Vigfusson to correct,
> and opened the text file with notepad, but I can't see any tags. Also,
> special characters such as eth appear as themselves, rather than ampersand
> eth ; etc. There are no letters in italics, and no italic tags, even where these
> show up correctly on the pdf of the uncorrected page.
It sounds like WordPad isn't opening the file as plain text. It must be noticing the tags and entities, and doing some processing on them as it opens the file.
I've never used WordPad, so I don't know if there's some way to say "I really want to open this as plain text; please don't try to be helpful." Are there any options in the Open dialog? Is there an "Open As" command? Is there a preference you can change?
Does anyone else know the answer to this?
--Sean