[UCIMC-Tech] Re: Tiller story up

Mon Jun 8 23:04:01 CDT 2009

I tweaked some settings that allowed me to cleanup the formatting on an 
old post of Brian's. Does this appear to help? I still need to do some 
more testing.

Mike Lehman wrote:
> 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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