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Comment author: anonym 26 January 2011 04:35:40PM 3 points [-]

The lesswrong css setting for body font is "Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" (first match). Pasting from MS Word is a bad idea though, because Word will paste all kinds of weird HTML markup into the post for any but the most trivial of documents.

Comment author: benelliott 26 January 2011 04:46:12PM *  0 points [-]

I suppose its too much to hope that open office does better?

Comment author: [deleted] 30 January 2011 11:17:02PM 3 points [-]

Open Office, Word etc are word processors - they're designed for formatting text, and so pretty much by definition they're going to include formatting markup. If you want to write plain text for elsewhere, use a text editor, like Notepad (if you're on Windows) or Vim, Emacs or Gedit (if you're on an operating system, rather than a virus-support program).

Comment author: anonym 02 February 2011 04:33:06PM 1 point [-]

I agree with AndrewHickey that using a text editor is best.

If you are really averse to writing HTML by hand though, there is Amaya, which is a web editor/browser that should generate very clean HTML if you don't explicitly set style properties. I haven't used it for years though and can't easily install it on Linux, but anybody on Mac or Windows should be able to install it fairly easily.