jbertles Posted December 30, 2002 Share Posted December 30, 2002 Hey there, anyone have any advice for me about what Mac text editor to use to load briefings? I used Word first and it gave me gobbledy-gook. Then I tried 'text-only' format, 'rich-text format' and even Mac's Simple Text. But I can seem to replace the gobbledy-gook file with any other file. Gives me the error-sound and won't load. Any suggestions? I already ran a search and didn't find much help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dook Posted December 30, 2002 Share Posted December 30, 2002 I have used Word successfully for CMBO in the past. Type your briefing, save it as a text file - not RTF -, close the file, launch CM, and load the briefings. Since you said you tried saving the docs as text, I don't know what the problem is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbertles Posted December 30, 2002 Author Share Posted December 30, 2002 Thanks Dook, I'll give it a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbertles Posted December 30, 2002 Author Share Posted December 30, 2002 Ok, just to clarify: In my version of Word (98) you have to save the files as 'Text only with line breaks'. That works just fine. Thanks again Dook for putting me on the right track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbertles Posted December 30, 2002 Author Share Posted December 30, 2002 Clarification #2 - It seems that it doesn't make much of a difference between "text-only" and "text-only with line breaks" - BUT - they both seem to work (I needed to do a little song-and-dance between getting out of the scenario editor and going back in before it would load), but now how do I get rid of those *%&*# line breaks!?. Even using 'text-only' (without line breaks) it inserts them. It's not that bad looking, but I had being untidy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toad Posted December 30, 2002 Share Posted December 30, 2002 Barebones.com makes an excellent - and free - text editor for Mac. Barebones BB-Edit Lite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbertles Posted December 31, 2002 Author Share Posted December 31, 2002 Thanks Toad, that did the trick. Let's see, free BBEdit Lite .... versus.... MS Word.... for $$$$.... that's a toughie..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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