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HTML editor that works with DNS?
Submitted by Russell on Sat, 08/09/2008 - 22:23.
Any recommendations for an HTML editor that works well with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.5? I know I could use WordPad or Notepad, but it would be nice to use an editor that -- in addition to being Select-and-Say compatible -- would color-code the HTML. Thanks! -Russ |
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Microsoft Word
HTML editing programs such as FrontPage are not particularly well-suited to NaturallySpeaking but as amazing as it sounds, you might consider trying Microsoft Word. Most of our forum postings are written in Word 2007 and cut and pasted into various forums. Some forums, like http://www.emrupdate.com/forums and http://www.knowbrainer.com/PubForum/ even allow the use of embedded hyperlinks which are much easier to manipulate.
Lunis Orcutt - Developer of KnowBrainer &
Host of the http://www.TheSpeechRecognitionStore.com
Lunis, Thanks for the
Lunis,
Thanks for the suggestion. I spent part of the day yesterday looking at some of the text editor programs available for Windows (there are a bunch!), and haven't found one yet. I read good things on another Speech Computing post about these two programs:
* EditPad Pro/EditPad Lite
* TextPad
When I get a chance, I'm going to look into these two further. If anyone else has suggestions for a DNS 9.5-compatible (Select-and-Say) text editor that is good for working with HTML, I'm open to suggestions. I'm hoping to find a text editor that color-codes the HTML markup and has good search features.
-Russ
testing free or inexensive HTML editors with NatSpeak
Hi Russ,
I have just been testing some of the free or inexpensive HTML editors. So far I have tried Amaya, HTML-Kit, CoffeeCup HTML Editor, Seamonkey Composer, and PSPad. (These programs are free except for CoffeeCup HTML Editor, which is $50.) I have only tested them quickly, not extensively, but I can tell you that the green light is not on in any of these programs, and in some of them, you can't even speak the menu commands (not even by hotkeys!). In CoffeeCup, you can speak the menu commands and dictate into the windows. However, when you dictate into the Visual Editor window, it seems that you get an unexpected paragraph return when you pause in dictation, at least sometimes. This doesn't seem to happen when you dictate into the Code Editor window.
I've used TextPad for a long time, but I was looking for something more HTML-wise. With TextPad, Nat communicates well with the menus/dialogs, and you can dictate into it, but the green light is not on.
If you find out more, I trust you'll let us know!
MargaretB
more on free or inexpensive HTML editors
I just tried EditPadPro. The green light is on! I was able to make a Select-and-Say correction. But NaturallySpeaking does not communicate with the menus....
Margaret
MargaretB wrote: I just
I just tried EditPadPro. The green light is on! I was able to make a Select-and-Say correction. But NaturallySpeaking does not communicate with the menus...
Apparently the green light is only available for the professional version. I installed the lite version and the greenlight did not come on. At $49.95 the professional version is what I consider pricey!
EditPadPro
I wonder if other factors are involved. Are we on the same operating system? I'm in Windows XP.
$49.95 doesn't seem so bad compared to $400 for DreamWeaver or similar programs.... I don't do enough in this area to justify spending $400, but $50 for a program that saves me time is feasible.
Text editors that I tried
Back in August when I first posted this message, I tried the following HTML editors without success:
EditPlus
UltraEdit (Select-and-Say compatible, but too erratic)
Jedit
Notepad++
ConTEXT
PS Pad
Here are some other ones that I intended to try, but never got around to doing it:
EditPad Pro/EditPad Lite
Vim.org
Text Pad
SuperEdit
Boxer
MultiEdit Lite
I'm glad to hear you found at least some success with EditPad Pro. Were you able to get keyboard shortcuts to work as a way to access menus?
-Russ
EditPadPro NOT S&S
I just tried EditPadPro (demo) and the green light is NOT on. Windows Vista, DNS 10 professional.
I bought, quite a while ago, UltraEdit, but the green ligth is sometimes on and sometimes off. When you look at the Dragon log file, it says it "suspects a select & say window" or something like that. So before some program can be called select and say it should have the green light on AND the log file should be clean of warning messages.
Quintijn
Russell wrote: Here are
Here are some other ones that I intended to try, but never got around to doing it:
EditPad Pro/EditPad Lite
Vim.org
Text Pad
SuperEdit
Boxer
MultiEdit Lite
-Russ
Multi-Edit lives! I'll be darned -- I don't know how it would work for your purpose, but it is a general programmer's editor. I used to use it because it could do a really cool column-oriented cut and paste, which was useful for stuff I was working on. Just goes to show that a really good product can survive in a niche if its developers continue to develop it and keep in touch with the community of users.
Bruce
HTML Editor -- How About Win32Pad?
I don't do any HTML editing with it, so I can't comment on how helpful it is for that purpose, but I can tell you that select and say works with it, and the light is green.
It is free.
Re: HTML Editor -- How About Win32Pad?
Matt,
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm mainly looking for an inexpensive or free text editor that color-codes HTML, which makes it easy to focus on either the code or the text content. I tried Win32Pad, and it does not do the color-coding.
Regarding the previous post about UltraEdit, I didn't provide much detail, but suffice it to say, Quintijn's experience matches mine. UltraEdit appears to be Select-and-Say compatible, but when you try to use it, the Select-and-Say support is so erratic that it really isn't a viable option.
-Russ