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I've got the diacritical blues myself right about now... On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:39 AM, David Uspal <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > "I'm having issues with my edits not looking right on the page." > > "Did you cut and paste from a Word document into the WYSIWYG editor?" > > "Yes." > > "Bingo." > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Cary Gordon > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:22 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Wikis > > More often than not, the author seems to intend the poleaxing of your > user experience. > > Cary > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Nate Vack <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Cary Gordon <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> WYSIWYG editors are the bane of my existence. > > > > Well... it depends on what you want. If you want clean, valid HTML, > > then yes -- WYSIWYG editors are unholy abominations unleashed upon the > > earth. > > > > If you want documents to look mostly closely like the author intended, > > they're not so bad. Occasionally we need to do a "paste it into > > Notepad and then back" maneuver, but it's rare. > > > > Sometimes people do really, really strange things like pasting an > > entire web page or Word document into the Wiki editor. For extra fun, > > paste an entire wiki editor into the wiki editor. That's its own > > meta-trip. > > > > But the worst case response tends to be "How the heck did you do that? > > Let's revert that, shall we?" > > > > -n > > > > -- > Cary Gordon > The Cherry Hill Company > http://chillco.com >