[p2pu-dev] Unpredictable font, color and line distance in copy/paste

Paul Bakulich paulbakulich at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 18:27:16 UTC 2012


We could make it configurable in your personal profile!!

IE: Please select which editor is your preference....

Markdown based
TinyMCE
None (Just clean the HTML).

My 2c....

Paul Bakulich
irc: codepal

On 14 February 2012 02:26, John Britton <john at p2pu.org> wrote:

> Our current editor situation is sub-par, improving the editor is worth
> doing and would make the site much more useable.
>
> @Paul (Brian, & Jessy too, but you know this already) - Improving our
> editor is a well defined project, and I'd like to encourage you to take a
> stab at solving it. Since we're open source you can grab the code on github
> and start trying out solutions. If you decide to start coding, I recommend
> soliciting feedback from the community early so that you don't have to
> repeat work. The dev list is also a great place to get ideas for different
> solutions. Let me know if you want to work on this and I'm happy to help if
> you need anything specific.
>
> <opinion>
> On the topic of editors, I, like Brian, would prefer something Markdown
> based.
>
> If we deem that a WYSIWYG is necessary for P2PU, I'd like for us to store
> Markdown rather than HTML (the HTML they make is terrible) and give the
> option to enter markdown directly.
> </opinion>
>
> Cheers,
> John Britton
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>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Brian Brennan <brianloveswords at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> The editor is CKeditor. It is not good.
>>
>> tinyMCE is decent. Personally, I think just throwing a textbox on there
>> and doing live markdown would be a great option.
>>
>> Something like this: http://dillinger.io/
>>
>> People learn wiki markup to write wikis, I don't think it's unacceptable
>> to require learning markdown.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Paul Bakulich <paulbakulich at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I suggest tinymce -- http://www.tinymce.com/tryit/full.php
>>>
>>>
>>> http://django-tinymce.googlecode.com/svn/tags/release-1.5/docs/.build/html/installation.html
>>>
>>> Seems relatively straight-forward, might have to turn off a few options
>>> though, idk.
>>>
>>>
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>>> On 7 February 2012 07:48, Jessy Kate Schingler <jessy at jessykate.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> i'm not knowledgeable about editors like this but i would also be happy
>>>> if we had a better one. after doing the whole programming with APIs
>>>> challenge with that editor, there was a ton of weird markup issues similar
>>>> to what maria is describing that i had to fight with. much smaller issue,
>>>> but i also find the editor window too small and not resizable.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Paul Bakulich <paulbakulich at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Any chance we can pop in a better / more featured editor?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yesterday I was Editing the Pencil Drawing groups Task, and found that
>>>>> even though I put a 20px border of white on the pictures it was stripped!
>>>>> --- I tried cellpadding & columnspacing to no avail.
>>>>>
>>>>> A bit miffed that the editor is so useless.
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul Bakulich
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7 February 2012 05:44, Jessy Kate Schingler <jessy at jessykate.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> As an alternative to the key combo you can also click the "HTML"
>>>>>> button on the WYSIWYG editor to enter plain text mode before you paste,
>>>>>> then click it again to return to HTML mode after you paste...
>>>>>>  On Feb 6, 2012 7:49 AM, "Philipp Schmidt" <philipp at p2pu.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I usually past as "plain text". On the Mac it's the key combination:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> shift - alt - apple - V
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's kind of finger breaking, but will make sure that any formatting
>>>>>>> is stripped out. You may have to re-apply some of the formatting using the
>>>>>>> P2PU editor afterwards.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> P
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 6 February 2012 17:40, Maria Droujkova <droujkova at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I pasted a bunch of stuff into my new task, and I have no idea why
>>>>>>>> it looks the way it looks.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I don't know why some line spaces are large and some small.
>>>>>>>> I don't know why some text is grey and some black.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What's a good work-around? Why is the site doing it?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>> Maria Droujkova
>>>>>>>> 919-388-1721
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Make math your own, to make your own math
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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