I’m not sure what anyone is hoping to gain by trying to second guess an OP who does know what he’s talking about. Just help the man find what he’s looking for, yeesh.
But everytime someone offers something, trying to do exactly what you’re saying, the person is met by a rhetorical bitchslap. I mean, if someone suggests style sheets, and the OP responds by characterizing it as a recommendation to use “garbage commands”, god only knows what he might consider my suggestion. Rat shit, maybe? Douche water?
Okay, then. Vim.
Ditto black rabbit and Liberal.
OP wants a free WYSIWYG that can change font sizes without producing CSS, so in effect, OP wants a program that will produce garbage - long since deprecated font tags - in which case, FrontPage Express is perfect for the OP.
I do similar work and tend to use Textpad (http://www.textpad.com ) if I need it quickly or there isn’t a standard editor on site.
Otherwise I prefer Homesite 4.5 - if you can get a copy. I haven’t found anything better for html/css development.
Now you’re just teasing, aren’t you? 
The only one I have is Word, and it is absotutely unpredictable!
I will want to edit an html I found online to change just a couple of things, usually just to remove stuff from the top and bottom so I can get a single topic isolated from a news page so I can print it or email it as a Word document.
If you delete anything it rearranges the whole rest. The page will suddenly get too wide to view or change color or font. No matter how little I try to delete it either won’t delete at all or will screw up the rest. Ugh.
I didn’t get the memo about font tags. What’s the problem with them?
Font tags? They’re clumsy, for one thing.
When CSS came along, HTML had begun to suffer from the too-many-notes syndrome of Austria’s court composers. The tool designed to deliver the data had been pulled, mashed, and bent into a tool to deliver the interface as well. Before long, you could scarcely read an HTML page, and come maintenance time, that’s a liability. What replaced the font tag is so much more flexible and encapsulated — more formatting power and useful with almost any object. Which brings up another point. The style object is part of the DOM (Document Object Model, which you can manipulate with Javascript).
Font tags are to CSS as pliers are to a Sears Magnum Deluxe Special Edition tool set. With Quadratower tool chest.
Absolutely correct! Me, I like something with more bells and whistles, but yes, ed is the standard text editor, so that’s your solution, Red Barchetta!
I wanted to edit this but my connection went haywire for a few minutes. I’d like to add this: ed is indeed a very good and efficient solution, but real developers use cat > filename.txt. Remember to save and quit with Control-D!