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On 15-May-08, at 1:33 PM, various entities wrote:

>>>> I know I can use Find/Replace for each matching pair to clean
>>>> these up but I think that a simple switch in BBEdit would be
>>>> such a good idea that it probably exists already. Can someone
>>>> tell me where it is?
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>> Markup > Utilities > Translate (or Cmd+Opt+T)
>>>
>>> Translate HTML to Text first. Then translate it again. Text to
>>> HTML. You can choose the way that characters are encoded (by
>>> name, hex or decimal)
>>>
>> While this may do the conversion of numeric entries to named ones,
>> it is overkill and does not preserve the HTML Markup. What was
>> requested was a way to scan the HTML for the numeric entries and
>> make them named (either automatically when you open the file or on
>> a request basis) without doing any other alteration to the HTML in
>> the file.
>

> perhaps I misunderstand the problem and apologize if my hint is not
> helpful, but on translating from HTML to Text you can *un*check the
> "Remove Tags" checkbox in the Translate dialog and your markup will
> not be touched. Btw, the opposite funcionalty would be "Remove
> Markup" (also under Markup > Utilities) which removes the markup
> but leaves encoded entities alone.

Thanks Roland for the tip. I hadn't thought of doing the Translate
backwards and then forwards. Should work fine, as you say. I may be
back to ask how to do that for a fairly large number of files in one
swell foop, but I think I'd better RTFM first -- it's been a while
since I did that. ;-)

Rob

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