[WEB4LIB] Re: CSS-2 "solution" and Font Tags

[Thomas M G Bennett]

Well I couldn't resist, although a valid point was brought out in example if
you have multiple font tags with different attributes this would not be
feasible, a program named BK ReplaceEm is a search and replace tool that
lets you choose a file extension and a directory to replace text in all
files that have the chosen extension.  You may also choose to include all
sub directories below the chosen directory.  I don't feel this is a better
choice over CSS-2 but this is a useful tool if you have need for such.  The
program also allows you to save each occurrence as a file set.  You can have
multiple search and replacements in one file set.  And, you can have it save
the original files to a backup directory in case you've made a replacement
which shouldn't have been replaced.

BK Replacement  (BK Bill Klein)

 http://www.orbit.org/replace/


The download is 572kb and can be run from a floppy, there are no dll files
installed outside of its own directory.  Best of all, this is freeware.


Note: Since I have found Edit Pad http://www.jgsoft.com I haven't used
ReplaceEm because I haven't needed to do a search and replace over multiple
directories since our WEB site moved to a new server a few years ago (static
rather than relative URLs of the domain had to be changed).  Edit Pad is a
replacement for notepad that lets you open files larger than 50k and do
search and replace on the current file being edited or over all open files.
A group of files can be dragged from Windows Explorer into the editor to
open multiple files or you can open one at a time.  You can also add any
file type to the open file menu in the 'file of type' drop down box.


Thomas



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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Drew, Bill
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 5:03 PM
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: CSS-2 "solution" and Font Tags


 TRy doing edit/replace across 1000 webpages.  That is how big our web has
gotten at SUNY Morrisville College Library.

Bill Drew