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I don't have a good excuse (not even "not knowing better"). I did it on a whim on the first post, and nobody complained until now so I kept doing it for this sequence. Fixing it is going to be a pain so I'm probably not going to unless at least one more person insists.
Straight text editors were just as annoying as Word was (this surprised me). The only thing I found that I could paste directly into without having to spend 10-15 minutes reformatting everything was google docs. I don't know what to make of Vaniver and Nornagest's opposite issues - I've looked at articles I posted via this method (with the default googleDoc font instead of the weird one I used in the ritual sequence) on several different computers and it worked fine.
If you don't mind typing a bit of markup, I suggest you use a preprocessor like Markdown. Write in "plain text" (Markdown looks mostly like e-mails), convert it to html, then paste the result through the "HTML source" button.
If you don't mind a bit of markup, that may suit you.
Now for a plain text editor that doesn't suck, I don't know what to promote. I personally love Emacs, if only because you can install a Markdown mode that highlight your headers and slants your emphasises, but my love is partly due to my heavily customized key-bindings (the default ones are often clumsy). Overall, use anything but Windows' Notepad.