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For iPad I recommend PlainText, which is free: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plaintext-dropbox-text-editing/id391254385?mt=8 Or WriteRoom, which is not free: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/writeroom/id288751446?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 --Uche On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Doesn't have to be Notepad Bill, but it must be plain text and not a > word-processor format. Word will save .txt files. Don't know about fancy > new-fangled things like Ipads. > > Roger > > ------------------------------**------------------------------** > ------------------- > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Wootton" < > [log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:48 PM > Subject: Re: First post - Notepadding it > > > > Thanks, Roger. I will attempt to do what you say. Not sure that I can > download Notepad to my I-pad so I will have to try it on the desktop. > > Cheers, > Bill > > On 22/05/2012, at 10:34 PM, Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > Welcome Bill, >> >> Just a tip. >> When you post here don't cut and paste from Word. >> Use a text file from something like Notepad and you wont get the surplus >> linefeeds. >> >> Nice to have a new subscriber. >> Roger Collett >> Arrowhead Press >> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.**uk/ <http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >> ------------------- >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Wootton" < >> [log in to unmask]> >> To: <[log in to unmask]> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 1:17 PM >> Subject: First post >> >> >> Hi all. >> >> Geez you are a hard lot to tap into. Thanks Max, Uche et al for walking >> me through the subscription minefields. >> >> Now, is this what I do? Attach a poem and await comment? >> >> >> >> Surrounded by Competents >> >> >> Everyone seems to know what to do. >> >> I am bewildered. >> >> >> >> Stepping in to the breach seems so natural for others. >> >> Whenever I do, it’s as a rabbit in the headlights. >> >> >> >> The hands of others manoeuvre and tinkle. >> >> Mine hold, at best. >> >> >> >> Everyone’s a player or wants to be. >> >> I spectate. >> >> >> >> It seems so natural to get involved. >> >> For me, it’s always an effort. >> >> >> >> Competent tradies do and do and do. >> >> I am awed by their air of efficiency and sureness. >> >> >> >> I panic into offering what unskilled assistance I can. >> >> Initiativelessly. >> >> >> >> Even opinions seem ready on the lips of others >> >> While mine, such as they are, I have to summon. >> >> >> >> Are they kidding? I wonder. >> >> My natural tendency is to wait. >> >> >> >> My blood pressure is lizard low. >> >> The world seems full of pulsing bubblers. >> >> >> >> Tentativeness is both my opening and fallback position. >> >> Footholds are all I gain. >> >> >> >> Cooking: I still can’t quite acknowledge >> >> the transformation from raw to plateworthy. >> >> >> >> Cars: how the hell do they work ? >> >> At 55, I’m no closer to knowing than I was at 5. >> >> >> >> Turn the key, flick the switch. >> >> I accept the consequent changes ignorantly. >> >> >> >> I suppose it is pleasant enough. I wouldn’t say >> >> I’m wide-eyed. More even-eyed: seeing without discernment. >> >> >> >> So long as the world doesn’t betray my naiveté. >> >> >> >> Bill Wootton 15.4.12 >> >> -- Uche Ogbuji http://uche.ogbuji.net Weblog: http://copia.ogbuji.net Poetry ed @TNB: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/author/uogbuji/ Founding Partner, Zepheira http://zepheira.com Linked-in: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ucheogbuji Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/ Friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/uche Twitter: http://twitter.com/uogbuji http://www.google.com/profiles/uche.ogbuji