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Poems Factory: Formatting Issues
When posting a poem as plain text, all line feeds and spacings are lost.
A poem that was entered line by line will then be presented as a "merged" text block (blog style, not poem style), i.e. all single lines of the poem are sticked together like a "normal" prose text.
I consider it to be essential that the author has control over his line feeds, spacings and alignments - the easy way!
I circumvented the problem by exporting a pre formatted poem from my word processor as HTML sourcecode - where all formatting is represented by HTML tags in clear text. Thus my poem is formatted ok - still I doubt that the "normal" author is able/willing to export and edit HTML before pasting it to the Poems Factory.
And what is even worse: Manual HTML formatting is obviously counted as "text charcters" - which is a problem if the length of the poem is reglemented and forced.
I strongly recomment to use other textbox editor styles that don't crush line feeds and spacings.
If there could also be means to e.g. center align text the easy way, that would be great!
A poem that was entered line by line will then be presented as a "merged" text block (blog style, not poem style), i.e. all single lines of the poem are sticked together like a "normal" prose text.
I consider it to be essential that the author has control over his line feeds, spacings and alignments - the easy way!
I circumvented the problem by exporting a pre formatted poem from my word processor as HTML sourcecode - where all formatting is represented by HTML tags in clear text. Thus my poem is formatted ok - still I doubt that the "normal" author is able/willing to export and edit HTML before pasting it to the Poems Factory.
And what is even worse: Manual HTML formatting is obviously counted as "text charcters" - which is a problem if the length of the poem is reglemented and forced.
I strongly recomment to use other textbox editor styles that don't crush line feeds and spacings.
If there could also be means to e.g. center align text the easy way, that would be great!
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Permalink Reply by Sawubona Admin on -
Hi Carsten,
now, the line feeds and carriage returns appear in new poems. -
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Permalink Reply by Carsten Trotzkowski on -
Sorry, does not work.
Now it is impossible to post anything as a new poem.
I get the error "Our apologies � this page was not found" and a hint that Java Script must be enabled, which it is.
Tried it in IE 6.0 (pls. don't say everyone else is using Firefox - for they don't...). -
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Permalink Reply by Sawubona Admin on
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Hi Carsten,
thanks for the advice. We will attend to solve this. -
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Permalink Reply by Carsten Trotzkowski on
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Hi, Admin,
thank you - indeed Firefox does not have the problem, but IE6 and IE7 have.
CR/LF is ok now - but still any leading whitespaces (preceeding a line) are removed - so the author has no chance to indent a phrase. My test poem "I Wish" would need them IMHO.
Greetings, Carsten -
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Permalink Reply by Carsten Trotzkowski on
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Firefox: OK
IE7: OK
IE6: Bad.... -
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Permalink Reply by Carsten Trotzkowski on
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OK, this might be considered to be a "speacial" error which might not apply to everyone:
In poem: http://sawubonamusicjam.ning.com/poemsofgoodhope/poem/show?id=20666...
I tried to publish an analogy which demands the poem to be shown in two colums.
Formatted it in HTML as a table - which works ok for some extend.
Still - there is a huge whitespace above the poem (if you want so - between the "scroll comment" and the table.
Maybe some could have a quick look please?
Alternatively, it would be good if simple TABs were supported. -
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