I think dash '-' is pretty safe too, but underscore when in doubt is a pretty good policy. Lots of filesystems on UNIX can handle all kinds of weird characters but who knows what file system will be in use.

X-post: I think you'll be safe with hyphens.

Technically, the only character that isn't legal in a Unix filename is the forward slash "/" character. Spaces and other metacharacters make things more difficult, and they can trip you up, but it's possible to use them.

All we have currently are numbers, letters, and hyphens. We're using all-caps instead of all-lowercase, but none of our filenames are case-sensitive, so I'm guessing that will be okay.

Should be okay, although all lowercase is generally more standard. As long as the application using the files knows they are all caps, it's not a problem. It does vary with different flavours of UNIX, but letters, numbers and hyphens is fine across 'em all.

I have a feeling this is going to provoke laughter. But is there an easy way to export Word to clean html ? No fonts, no CSS since it is being plugged into a blog template with CSS of its own.

I can't link to it from my phone, but you want to look for a program called "tidy".

Typo Boy: [link]

Tidy cleans up the code. But it leaves the font and classes and such. How to do I get it to generate simple html, no css, given source with CSS?

Ah and Kevin's link helps. It still produces a few simple classes; but they are simple enough to eliminate with search and replace. (The template can't handle classes at all, unless I want to inherit from the template CSS, and it is pretty restrictive even on that.)

Does anyone have anything bad to say about Sony digital cameras? I'm looking to invest in one (finally), and a friend's father gets the dealer's discount. I haven't shopped around a whole lot, but the discount is very appealing at this juncture.