learn how to use returns/carriage breaks with the forum software

[chad]

the forum software is shitty. if an article shows up "nice" in the preview after you copy & pasted it, it won't show up "nice" when you post it. after you've posted it, click edit and manually put them in. nobody is reading your 2 pages of a giant text wall.

[chad]

and i'm going to bitch at you if it's "too hard." "too hard" is what is making the country in to a giant shitpile.

[General of Darkness]

and i'm going to bitch at you if it's "too hard." "too hard" is what is making the country in to a giant shitpile.

I always try and clean up my posts as much as possible. BTW - Who died and made you Head Bitcher? I thought that was my job.

[JohnQPublic]

Try pasting in Notepad or a test editor, then copy and paste from there. Some articles have hidden formatting characters that can mess up the article when posted. And if you want to bitch and moan, call 1-800-OBAMA. ;)

[General of Darkness]

Try pasting in Notepad or a test editor, then copy and paste from there. Some articles have hidden formatting characters that can mess up the article when posted. And if you want to bitch and moan, call 1-800-OBAMA. ;)

Wrong number its 800 - FUOBONGO

[Down1]

Actually if you have an ObamaPhone you can just press # and bitch away and then they will send you out a check to soothe your problem.

Dialing many numbers is for loser tax paying Gentiles.

[mamboni]

the forum software is shitty. if an article shows up "nice" in the preview after you copy & pasted it, it won't show up "nice" when you post it. after you've posted it, click edit and manually put them in. nobody is reading your 2 pages of a giant text wall.

Yep! Editor here sucks, deletes CRs and font formatting. Whenever I cut and paste an article, I groan because I have to post it then reopen it to edit it otherwise the edits don't stick. I'd definitely post a lot more stuff if the editor here was fixed - it's a major PITA, the Leroy of website editors.

[mamboni]

Try pasting in Notepad or a test editor, then copy and paste from there. Some articles have hidden formatting characters that can mess up the article when posted. And if you want to bitch and moan, call 1-800-OBAMA. ;)

Yes, I've used the notepad trick often with good results. But it strips out charts and graphics too.

[Serpo]

Im back to the pencil cept it plays havoc with marks on the monitor.

[Cebu_4_2]

You can always click the little button next to the 'bold' letter styles and paste as plain text...

Sheesh

[Ponce]

I do have to clean something or another once in a while but I can't really complain........the God's have been good to me.

V

[osoab]

I do have to clean something or another once in a while but I can't really complain........the God's have been good to me.

V

Ummmm....

TMI

[Ponce]

TMI?.........I am talking about my people.......so there.

V

[Cebu_4_2]

TMI?.........I am talking about my people.......so there.

V

You clean your people?

I'm real confused now.

[PatColo]

the notepad approach loses all embedded links, fonts etc.

I paste straight over from source, and it usually appears a wall of text sans CRs. But relatively easy to see where the CRs should be so I go through and add them again. Any sentence ending short of the main body's right-margin = CR. Some sentences coincidentally end at the right margin- u can tell if it's a CR by clicking to the right of the period [.] to place the blinking edit cursor there, and if there's a space between the period & cursor, it's NOT a CR. If no space, it's CR.

Some articles are worth pasting in full rather than just a link to source, for the "redundancy" factor-- article at source gets memory-holed, whole sites/blogs get deleted (usu hosts appeasing kosher screechmonkeys), then many full reposts available around the interwebs.

[vacuum]

Here are some tips I use to post more effectively:



Paste the raw source to keep the formatting, images, etc.
Then fix the line breaks. Start at the bottom and work your way up, so that the remaining text which still requires editing doesn't keep shifting down.
Any line that ends with a period probably needs a line break.
Press enter at the end of the previous line instead of trying to click at the beginning of the next line.
When positioning the mouse cursor to where line breaks need to be, only worry about it being vertically on the right line, and just click on the far right-hand side. The cursor will go to the end of the line no matter how far to the right you click.
When posting an image only (book or TNE style) you can simply highlight the image on the page and do ctrl+c and ctrl+v, or, if the image is by itself with a url ending in .jpg, you have to press ctrl+a before you do the ctrl+c and ctrl+v


So basically, when I add in the line breaks, I start at the bottom, one finger on the enter key, another controlling the mouse, and quickly click on the far right hand side of any line ending with a period or heading, and press enter. It takes about 10 - 20 seconds usually. Pasting images takes only a couple seconds.

[Hatha Sunahara]

I copy stuff and paste it into a blank email form which serves the purpose of an html editor--and keeps the format and images of the copied stuff. Then I edit it in the email form, then I copy it into the message form for posting, and edit that until it is pretty close to perfect--or as close as I can get it.


Hatha

[Cebu_4_2]

I just copy paste the shit, if you cant figure it out then you really dont need to read it. I only post bullshit anyways.