Is there a good keyboard shortcut for em and strong tags in HTML for DW?

[sciatrix]

Because holy hell, I've now tried to work it out for Atom, Sublime, my entire Chrome browser, the possibility of writing in Markdown (which I hate), and DW itself. I'm willing to roll my eyes and draft out posts somewhere else, but I'm trying to avoid installing stuff just for DW, and I resent the notion of having a whole new program just for using HTML.

I just want to be able to select some text, smack down that sweet ctrl+i, and have that text be wrapped up in < em > emphasis tags. Is that so hard?

Comments

[kore]

I thought I had found one with "Ctrl-Alt-E" but I can't make it work. Maybe creating a macro might work?

[hellofriendsiminthedark]

What about sites like Word to HTML?

[lazaefair]

Ooooh, that looks useful, thanks for linking.

I've also been composing posts in Google Docs and then using this "post to AO3" Google Docs script to insert the various tags.

[sylvaine]

Oh boy, do let me know if you find something. I don't dislike coding, but it's a complete pain on my phone.

[jesse_the_k]

I know of the textexpander app for iOS, as well as the built-in system "text shortcuts" (in Keyboards). (For example, I've defined ",,dw" -> ".dreamwidth.org"

On macOS I've been using Typinator for more than a decade--in addition to simple macro expansions, it supports AppleScript, Javascript and Swift.

[siderea]

Rich text mode. Just click "Rich Text" on the Post page.

Hand coding for comments though.