[Wikipedia-l] Minor changes

Wed Nov 20 01:34:14 UTC 2002

Zoe wrote:

>Toby Bartels wrote:

>>Indeed, you may want to do all of the editing externally,
>>only copying the text to the Wikipedia edit box
>>when you want to preview the wiki markup.

>Be sure that if you save into an external editor, that you re-type your
>apostrophes and quotation marks when you paste back into the Wiki space,
>some editors' special characters show up as weird characters on Wiki.

You may be able to do this automatically in a word processor
by saving as plain text (no formatting), closing the file,
and then opening the plain text (*.txt) file to copy and paste.

Better yet, use a true text editor, not a word processor.
That is, use Notepad, not Word.

-- Toby