HTML Word Template
A template to let you write in HTML and have it look like a Word document.
Forked from my personal account for ease of access.
Feel free to use and edit it as you'd like! (MIT License, copyright (C) 2016 Rachael Steiner, meaning you are free to use, modify, and distribute it as long as you keep the copyright notice. See LICENSE for more detail.)
For more information
See the web site for information about how to use it. You don't need to know CSS---or even much HTML---to make use of it. Let me know if you want help with it!
Why it's cool:
- Save default styles via stylesheets
- Especially helpful for accessibility control: e.g., if your eyes are sensitive to bright-white pages
- Also allows you to change the interface background, which is not an option on all word processors
- Save different stylesheets for different publication style (e.g., APA, MLA)
- Write the text in the editor of your choice, and worry about program-specific compatibility later
- Avoid the bulkiness of word processors
- Set up your environment how you want it
- Guidelines to tell you where to break up the text into a new page
- When writing in HTML, you can comment out any parts you're hesitant about, hiding them from the document preview without having to delete them altogether
- Speaking of comments, you can add revision-style comments with the
<comment></comment>wrapper (for the text you're commenting on) and the<ctext></ctext>wrapper for the comment itself - Keeping track of changes using git is much easier for HTML files than for word-processed files