If you have ever experienced problems in cut and pasting text out of Quark Express or InDesign and posting it on the web you’re not alone.  I remember when I first ran into this problem.  I was just pasting text into dreamweaver, adding paragraph tags and other ampersand codes, and I was still getting odd errors after I uploaded the html file to the web.  This happens because the text encodings in Quark and InDesign may not be UTF-8 or beyond ASCII.  So I decided to make a tool to help with this weekly function of mine.   The script I wrote takes care of all features of HTML markup for web.  The script I wrote does everything in the click of a button.  All you need is TextWrangler, a text editor from the makers of BBEdit, and AppleScript.  The script does the following functions:

1.  Formats all accented, or Umlated characters with ampersand codes.

 2.  Adds HTML paragraph tags at the appropriate line breaks 

3.  Formats hyperlinks for all text that matches a link with grep.  This includes email addresses.  

4.  Removes all text gremlins.  You can read the tutorial on how to use the script HERE.