Dynamic text authoring

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ok, here’s the deal

At first I wanted to have scrolling text that had bold, italic, bullets, and indentations. All of that was to make an outline (like you had to make before writing a paper in school). I was able to format all the text within flash in the dynamic text box, but when I published it the SWF made all of the characters bold and took away all the indentions.

I realize I can format the text using html coding both within the program and as loaded text, but that’s a pain writing html tags for each line break and font.

Now what I would love to be able to do is have a program that I could edit text in, and it would format it using flash-approved html tags which I could save to the server and change easily.

Does anyone know of a program like this or of another way I can format this text?

the website i’m working on is
www.outoftheboat.com the needs section is an example of what the kind of text i’m working with.

Thanks for your help
ben

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Type the text into Dreamweaver using “Show Design View”. That way, if you change the font color for exaple, Dreamweaver will write the html for dat. Then, change to “Show Code View”, copy and paste the code to ur txt file.

Dats all i can think about…

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unfortunately dreamweaver uses tags that flash does not recognize like <strong> instead of <b>

but I actually was able to do what I first wanted to do within flash by using a system font instead of outlined.

thanks

ben