Quanta Gold

[David]

I have been using the pre-release Quanta 2.21 for my html editor and have realy been missing (windows Homesite). I just broke down and paid for the new release of Quanta Gold, while this is still work in progress It is very slick. Ftp,syntax highlighting, project organization and the tidy validator are all nice improvements. The preview plugins don't yet work with kde3. As this progresses I might like it better then my old windows friend.

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[tonesham]

I also tried Quanta ver 2.0. I could not get very far with the program for the simple reason that the code is displayed in the default italicized font "Arioso", and therefore illegible. If anyone can tell me how to forever banish this unhelpful font and replace it with something more legible, I would be most grateful. (on a Red Hat system /KDE)

[tonesham]

I also tried Quanta ver 2.0. I could not get very far with the program for the simple reason that the code is displayed in the default italicized font "Arioso", and therefore illegible. If anyone can tell me how to forever banish this unhelpful font and replace it with something more legible, I would be most grateful. (on a Red Hat system /KDE)

[David]

Hi Tonesham,
I had to ask the same Question.

On version 2.21

If you you go to the top menus and its under;

( Tools or Options) > Highlighting > System Fonts

It should be something like that on your version

[tonesham]

Hi David,

Thank you very much for the tip - I hadn't spotted that option... The program seems pretty good so far

Tone

[littleman]

David, have you tried the HTML editor in OpenOffice, or Bluefish? How does it compare?

[David]

Little:

I messed around with the open office and really didn't like it much. The bluefish looks interesting but I don't have it installed so I can't really compare.

After spending a week with Quanta Gold, I am really liking it. The built in ftp client is really quite nice.

My upgrade to kde3 messsed up the preview plugins but they say it will be fixed in the next release.

The trial version gives you a pretty good feel for it. The biggest problem with it is it has a built in timeout that can drive you crazy.