[UCIMC-Tech] Re: Tiller story up

[Mike Lehman]

Amy,
This sounds like useful information. Having a setting of "0.0001 pt" 
font (if I'm reading any of this right) just seemed weird. Thanks for 
your input. I'll see if we can get something done.

Tech folks,
Can someone take a look at the back end settings dealing with formatting 
text when entering it into stories? This wonkiness has been going on for 
some time. Maybe just something simple?

Also, something else I noticed when poking around is that logged in 
users get different publishing options when they go to post than do 
anonymous users when they go to post. Anonymous posters are given this 
option only:
More information about formatting options <http://www.ucimc.org/filter/tips>
which takes them to here, on a separate webpage, that is merely 
instructional:
http://www.ucimc.org/filter/tips

In contrast, logged in users get this:
Input format <http://www.ucimc.org/node/add/story#>

which yields a expanded menu within the same page, of which the Filtered 
HTML is selected as default:

Filtered HTML

    * Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li>
      <dl> <dt> <dd> <p> <br>
    * Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
    * Images can be added to this post.

PHP code

    * You may post PHP code. You should include <?php ?> tags.

Full HTML

    * Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

Going to an anonymously posted page gets this evenly formatted posting:
http://www.ucimc.org/content/peru-police-accused-disposing-dead-indigenous-cover-death-toll

Going to older stories of Brian's gives mixed results. I wonder if it's 
a matter of changing the default formatting setting for logged in users 
might help? I can't say that the issue is entirely caused by what I'm 
describing, but maybe part?

On the other hand, maybe I've just added to the confusion?
Mike Lehman

ald wrote:
> that's weird, i can't say i understand.
> you say you are finding this:
> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
>
> in the box where the body of the story gets pasted in the user interface?
>
> if this is the case the only thing i can deduce is that this extra text
> dcoding is confusing the program. in philly imc's drupal, and other
> installs i can see, you don't need extra coding in this box -- you are
> best to just remove all coding except <br><br> between each paragraph.
>
> fyi, what syndicated is the coding you describe, the text, plus may <br>s
> inserted all over the place. so the <br>s are in there somewhere -- or
> else they wouldn't have syndicated to imc-us. i removed them by hand.
>
> ~ amy
>
>
> Mike Lehman wrote:
>   
>> Amy,
>> I looked things over. In HTML, I see the paragraph opening and closing
>>     
> </p> in the proper places and no others in the paragraph. However, the
> opening <p> is this <p, instead of <p>:
>   
>> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
>>
>> I won't know how to fix it, but if I can show our tech people where the
>>     
> problem lies, they can probably fix it.
>   
>> Mike Lehman
>>
>> ald wrote:
>>     
>>> either way you have to remove all the page breaks. if it is in full
>>>       
> format, you can sometimes have trouble seeing where they are. in philly
> imc's drupal there is an option to edit the piece in html/text only,
> this
>   
>>> way you see the <br> code wherever there is an in-paragraph line break.
>>>       
> Brian Dolinar wrote:
>   
>>>> Hi Amy.
>>>> Mike Lehman has been working to figure out the page break issue in my
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Tiller
>>>
>>>       
>>>> story
>>>> and says it's a glitch in Drupal.
>>>> Maybe you two can figure it out???
>>>> Thanks for taking the time.
>>>> BD
>>>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:42 PM, ald <ald at riseup.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> brian, the testimonies in your story are amazing. i'm soryr you're
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>> having
>>>
>>>       
>>>>> trouble with the line breaks. make sure that you have removed all the
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>> line
>>>
>>>       
>>>>> breaks in the text you are pasting in. they show up as a <br> tag
>>>>>           
> when
>   
>>> the
>>>
>>>       
>>>>> coding is visible. you can put me in touch with who is working on it
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>> and i
>>>
>>>       
>>>>> can help them.
>>>>> best,
>>>>> amy
>>>>> Brian Dolinar wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Thanks Amy. BD
>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:19 AM, ald <ald at riseup.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> looks good! i'll promote it tomorrow i think.
>>>>>>> Brian Dolinar wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> Hi Amy.
>>>>>>>> My Tiller story is up.
>>>>>>>> But forgot to mention the screwy paragraph breaks.
>>>>>>>> I'm trying to get somebody around here to work on it
>>>>>>>> but it's apparently some glitch in Drupal.
>>>>>>>> Or maybe its my techno-incompetence.
>>>>>>>> Hope you like the story.
>>>>>>>> BD
>>>>>>>>
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