Looking for a free Windows WYSIWYG text editor

  • I’m looking for a freeware WYSIWYG text editor creating good HTML code, that I could paste into Worpress HTML Source Editor. I need full justification, proportional spacing, hyperlinks, CSS programmable width, margins, indents, line spacing, fonts and all their attributes. No tables, no columns, etc. But I want to see, when I need to use for example, hyphenation or non breaking space (yes, I’m using fixed width template and program everything in pixels…) in my post, to get the layout I like. Using the inbuilt WYSIWYG editor, which every so often is messing up the whole post, when I decide to underline just one word – doesn’t work for me. Any suggestions for an easy to use program creating good HTML code, that would work well with WordPress?

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  • Perhaps you have misunderstood me; people want Word=type functions within WordPress at the press of a button, and rightly so. I’m not sure how or why Frontpage is relevant to the discussion at all.

    Of course CSS is the styling bedrock of anyone’s WP installation, which is why WLW is liked by a lot of bloggers; it downloads your stylesheet, and uses your CSS. Where’s the conflict with WP? That’s precisely how WP works.

    “People want Word-type functions at the press of a button, and rightly so.”

    No, not really. While that may seem like the “easy” way to go, as you have probably gathered, it can’t be trusted to produce output which renders correctly. Do yourself a favour and consider the many benefits of a lightweight markup language like Markdown. Once you’re ready, install Markdown Extra, take a couple of minutes to familiarise yourself with the syntax and you won’t look back. Those other “people” will love it too.

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