4.2 TextPad

With some experience in writing enhanced L^ATEX source files using html.sty, HTML webs produced directly by L^ATEX2HTML can be used ``as is". They will be readable and navigable, even if they are not the most elegant layouts around. It may however sometimes be useful to tweak an HTML web after it has been written out by L^ATEX2HTML. While any ASCII text editor can be used to edit single HTML files, I have found that the TextPad editor (routinely installed on NRAO PC's in Charlottesville) has several nice features for L^ATEX or L^ATEX2HTML users, including:

• it can open and display many files at once (useful when making global changes across a web),

• it can find text or regular expressions in many files at once and produce a clickable list of all instances of the search key (if it had global replace as well as this global find, it would truly be an excellent editor for HTML webs),

• its ``split" window option lets you view def definitions at the top of the L^ATEX source while working simultaneously on the body,

• its line numbering option lets you locate L^ATEX source errors quickly from log file error messages,

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