Text formatting oddities

[gt1]

I just made a post in plain text with several separate lines but it appears the line feed/carriage return weren't

retained on several. I've also seen several others' posts where they probably had separate lines but everything

showed up on one. Here is my example:

 

"Ok, I love my Mockba 5 so have caught the folder bug. I'm curious, and I've just spent an hour or so looking at

6x9 folding models, what was the most recent 6x9 folder available. Particularly does something like this exist:

 

6x9 coupled rangefinder x sync coated lens good solid construction rangefinder and viewfinder that's larger than

the ones on my Mockba 5?

 

I'm familiar with the Zeiss, Agfa, and Russian folders. I'm not familiar with Japanese models."

 

When I originally wrote it that middle paragraph was 6 separate lines, after I posted it came out all as one line.

 

Also, when using HTML the <img src> tags no longer seem to work, I just get blank space. See my original post in

the "Mockba 5 rangefinder adjustment questions" thread. At the end of my original post I had an <img src> of the

image, and in my second post I wrote <img src> in text which does not display.

[joshroot]

Single carriage returns have never worked on PN, I'm not sure why. you always have to hit it twice if you are using "plain text" mode. The only way to have separate lines without double returns is to use HTML.

 

The reason that your IMG SRC tag didn't work on your original Mockba post is that you didn't write it correctly.

 

You wrote:

 

<img src="http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?topic_id=1481&msg_id=00PyGq&photo_id=7457356&photo_sel_index=0">

 

The link you put in is to the page that the image is on not the image itself. You needed to write:

 

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/7457356-md.jpg">

[gt1]

Right, right, thanks for pointing that out. I was quite tired that day.

[derek_hofmann]

Josh wrote: "I'm not sure why. you always have to hit it twice if you are using "plain text" mode."

 

The reason is because the forum software isn't replacing the carriage return ASCII character with the carriage

return HTML tag, <cr>. Instead, it replaces each run of two or more carriage returns with a <p>.

 

Josh, could you ask the programmers to replace each single carriage return the user enters in "plain text" mode

with a <cr>?

[derek_hofmann]

Oops, I meant <br>, not <cr>.

[ricardo_tomasi]

Any chance of implementing something like (or portions of) <a href="http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/">TinyMCE</a>, <a href="http://www.kevinroth.com/rte/">RTE</a> or the <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/editor/">YUI Editor</a>? I'd volunteer for free contribution :)

[joshroot]

Funny you should mention tiny TinyMCE........(josh trails off to preserve the suspense)