Bluefish is nice. http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ It does html right now, but it can be modified to have dtml elements, if anyone wants to take the time. HTH Russell On Tuesday 05 February 2002 11:37 pm, Richard Gordon wrote:

I googled around a bit, but couldn't come up with anything- is there a tool/product for Zope that would let a luser who wants to select a single arbitrary word or phrase in a dtml document editing window bracket it with basic html formatting like <i>xxx</i>? I am trying to develop a content management system that can be used by people who refuse to learn any html at all, but who essentially want to be able to pretend that they are using m$ word to author with. Courtesy of M$ and AOL, most of Corporate America is manned by technologically dysfunctional people who expect the interface to take care of all of the dirty work and either can't or won't type in simple tags.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Richard Gordon -------------------- Gordon Design Web Design/Database Development http://www.richardgordon.net

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Maybe Johan Carlssons IEMethod would work? IE5 only, though. http://www.zope.org/Members/johanc/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Gordon" <richard@richardgordon.net> To: "Zope List" <zope@zope.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 5:37 AM Subject: [Zope] Simple HTML Formatting Tool?

I googled around a bit, but couldn't come up with anything- is there a tool/product for Zope that would let a luser who wants to select a single arbitrary word or phrase in a dtml document editing window bracket it with basic html formatting like <i>xxx</i>? I am trying to develop a content management system that can be used by people who refuse to learn any html at all, but who essentially want to be able to pretend that they are using m$ word to author with. Courtesy of M$ and AOL, most of Corporate America is manned by technologically dysfunctional people who expect the interface to take care of all of the dirty work and either can't or won't type in simple tags.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Richard Gordon -------------------- Gordon Design Web Design/Database Development http://www.richardgordon.net

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