Crappy article editor :(
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I've just written my second article in a long time and the article editor is giving me nightmares X| I'm sorry for being so blunt. But after spending most of my time in text editors (simple HTML / markdown) it's really hard to get a good structure with your editor. My last article (submitted for editors) looked nice when I wrote it and saved it. But now the code syntax is wierd and many of my paragraphs have been merged into a single one. Can't you please add an alternative editor or just add support for markdown (i.e. a simple textarea which will convert markdown to HTML when submitted)? I don't think that I'll write another article if I have to use the current editor or upload CP formatted HTML. All you'll get is just tech blog entries from me. //A sad user whos article got deformatted by your editor.
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I've just written my second article in a long time and the article editor is giving me nightmares X| I'm sorry for being so blunt. But after spending most of my time in text editors (simple HTML / markdown) it's really hard to get a good structure with your editor. My last article (submitted for editors) looked nice when I wrote it and saved it. But now the code syntax is wierd and many of my paragraphs have been merged into a single one. Can't you please add an alternative editor or just add support for markdown (i.e. a simple textarea which will convert markdown to HTML when submitted)? I don't think that I'll write another article if I have to use the current editor or upload CP formatted HTML. All you'll get is just tech blog entries from me. //A sad user whos article got deformatted by your editor.
You have the option of hitting the "HTML" button at the far right of the editor toolbar to get you into straight HTML mode. Which article? If you wish you can send me your HTML and I'll try posting to see what's going on. Anything specific? As to Markdown, we've been toying with that.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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You have the option of hitting the "HTML" button at the far right of the editor toolbar to get you into straight HTML mode. Which article? If you wish you can send me your HTML and I'll try posting to see what's going on. Anything specific? As to Markdown, we've been toying with that.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
It's my Griffin.Networking article. As for markdown: Feel free to use my griffin.editor (markdown editor) which I present here: http://blog.gauffin.org/2012/02/introducing-griffin-editor-a-jquery-textarea-plugin/[^] You can also check my (in development, but working) .NET wiki engine: https://github.com/jgauffin/griffin.wiki[^]. It has a working parser.
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You have the option of hitting the "HTML" button at the far right of the editor toolbar to get you into straight HTML mode. Which article? If you wish you can send me your HTML and I'll try posting to see what's going on. Anything specific? As to Markdown, we've been toying with that.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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I've just written my second article in a long time and the article editor is giving me nightmares X| I'm sorry for being so blunt. But after spending most of my time in text editors (simple HTML / markdown) it's really hard to get a good structure with your editor. My last article (submitted for editors) looked nice when I wrote it and saved it. But now the code syntax is wierd and many of my paragraphs have been merged into a single one. Can't you please add an alternative editor or just add support for markdown (i.e. a simple textarea which will convert markdown to HTML when submitted)? I don't think that I'll write another article if I have to use the current editor or upload CP formatted HTML. All you'll get is just tech blog entries from me. //A sad user whos article got deformatted by your editor.
Just use HTML edit-mode and check the leave-my-HTML-alone checkbox. And you should be good.
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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It's my Griffin.Networking article. As for markdown: Feel free to use my griffin.editor (markdown editor) which I present here: http://blog.gauffin.org/2012/02/introducing-griffin-editor-a-jquery-textarea-plugin/[^] You can also check my (in development, but working) .NET wiki engine: https://github.com/jgauffin/griffin.wiki[^]. It has a working parser.
I've seen a few Markdown editors and it's great to see you've packaged up one so neatly. I want to extend the idea, though, and not simply have a Markdown editor with preview, but a true WYSIWYG markdown editor. The only hurdle we're facing, since we have the code to handle all the switching between the built in browser's WYSIWYG editor and a HTML-only mode is converting HTML to Markdown. Our current editor, when you switch from WYSIWYG to HTML mode takes the HTML from the browser's editor and places it in a Textarea. Simple. To make a Markdown WYSIWYG editor all we need is to take that HTML and convert it to Markdown via javascript. The most promising candidate I've seen so far (quick look, zero investigation) is http://www.prolificnotion.co.uk/convert-html-to-plain-text-in-c-using-markdown[^]. The biggest issue seems to be with webKit processing of XSLT. the jQuery transform plugin looks like it would be great - except that the jQuery.com SNAFU that resulted in all plugin's being lost means I can't find a copy of the plugin file (though I'm sure there are tons of copies lying around)
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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I've seen a few Markdown editors and it's great to see you've packaged up one so neatly. I want to extend the idea, though, and not simply have a Markdown editor with preview, but a true WYSIWYG markdown editor. The only hurdle we're facing, since we have the code to handle all the switching between the built in browser's WYSIWYG editor and a HTML-only mode is converting HTML to Markdown. Our current editor, when you switch from WYSIWYG to HTML mode takes the HTML from the browser's editor and places it in a Textarea. Simple. To make a Markdown WYSIWYG editor all we need is to take that HTML and convert it to Markdown via javascript. The most promising candidate I've seen so far (quick look, zero investigation) is http://www.prolificnotion.co.uk/convert-html-to-plain-text-in-c-using-markdown[^]. The biggest issue seems to be with webKit processing of XSLT. the jQuery transform plugin looks like it would be great - except that the jQuery.com SNAFU that resulted in all plugin's being lost means I can't find a copy of the plugin file (though I'm sure there are tons of copies lying around)
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Markdown and similar formatting languages are typically referred to as WYSIWYM[^]. Hence it would, imho, defeat the purpose to use Markdown if you wrap it in a WYSIWYG editor. Users which see the markdown option would expect to get a syntax aid toolbar (contra a formatting toolbar) and not a fully blown editor which hides the markdown. I would humbly ask you to at least do a poll before choosing to go down that path. Trying to convert existing HTML to Markdown is nothing I've done. I always save the unmodified text in one column and the generated HTML in another.
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Just use HTML edit-mode and check the leave-my-HTML-alone checkbox. And you should be good.
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
Good idea. I have a different idea which works good for me. Do some basic WYSIWYG editing and switch to HTML-only mode, just to have some samples of the code and see what markup and classes are used. Using the samples obtained, copy them to an editor of your liking. For example, I either use my own plain-text editor with HTML (or other) plug-ins or Visual Studio HTML editor. Complete the article. Check it up with your browser. Start CodeProject submission process again, go to the HTML-only mode and copy/paste all your HTML to the CodeProject editor window, all at once. Check up the submitted article with you browser as it appears on CodeProject Web site. I had some problem with my very first article, but by the moment I wanted to publish my second one, I came to this procedure which never let me down ever since. :-) Good luck,
—SA
P.S.: Nish, sorry that I put it in reply to your comment. Of course this post is mostly for OP.
Sergey A Kryukov
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Markdown and similar formatting languages are typically referred to as WYSIWYM[^]. Hence it would, imho, defeat the purpose to use Markdown if you wrap it in a WYSIWYG editor. Users which see the markdown option would expect to get a syntax aid toolbar (contra a formatting toolbar) and not a fully blown editor which hides the markdown. I would humbly ask you to at least do a poll before choosing to go down that path. Trying to convert existing HTML to Markdown is nothing I've done. I always save the unmodified text in one column and the generated HTML in another.
I would always provide a formatting toolbar and a Markdown-view in the editor. It would never be a WYSIWY(G|M)-only option.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP