bold & italics macros fail in Textpad 4.4.1

[daniel]

The bold and italics macros in Textpad 4.4.1 fail most of the time. When I use the macros it just highlights the words instead placing the expected <B></B> </I></I> tags around the highlighted.

[Nathan]

You know what -- just use your clip lib to accomplish the same effect. Map a shortcut for activate clip library, and create a clip of "<b>" and "<\b>". Like so, it can be accessed just as fast as a macro, and will actually run faster. I use Alt-L to activate the Library window and space+b to jump to the " bold" name I have for just this HTML clip. This trick works equally well for italics, anchor tags, form templates, even whole ASP functions

-Nathan

[Nathan]

Looks like my >b< tag messed up the above post. Sorry. I guess I unwittingly uncovered a marginal bug in the forum, eh?

[Andreas]

Yes, some tags get interpreted, but not all.
<img src="http://www.djh-freeweb.de/~andreas.waec ... echter.png"> was working some time ago, while <a href="http://www.andreas-waechter.de/">My Homepage</a> did not...
I guess your <b>end-of-bold</b> would have worked if you had used a slash instead of a backslash.
Let's try <i>italic</i> while we are at it...

Andreas

[Andreas]

Btw, could it be that your problem with macros is related to the \& thing which was corrected in the 14-February release of Textpad (which is also called 4.4.1 as well as the 10-February release)
<img src="http://www.djh-freeweb.de/~andreas.waec ... /Suche.png">

[Nathan]

Pardon the backwards slash -- I spend a lot more writing perl and ASP than I do HTML. Still shouldn't depricate the clip lib advice

[Nathan]

Nor be deprecated because of my spelling inabilities.