Hi Steve, 2009/11/2 Steve Foerster <[email protected]>
> > So, if I'm doing things correctly, then the editor allows text to be > WYSIWYG formatted once it's there, which is great, and it takes > whatever's already on the page and makes it available for WYSIWYG > editing, which is also great. But it doesn't seem to allow text > that's already formatted to be pasted into the editor and retain that > formatting. When I try to paste formatted text into it, it brings up > a new window specifically calling for plain text. Am I doing > something wrong? > Thanks Steve -- that's a good point, haven't noticed this issue with my testing -- the benefits of the community helping us out with testing different use case scenarios. The "paste" window with the FCK editor is not ideal for large volumes of text. From what I see, the best way to copy big chucks of test is to use the wiki source option (reverting back to wiki text ;-) ) . Their may be a more elegant solution - we''ll investigate. > The reason I want to be able to do this is that there are a lot of > textbooks old enough to be in the public domain but much of the > content of which is still surprisingly relevant. I'd like to be able > to put those old textbooks onto the wiki so that they could > collaboratively revised and made useful for today's students. If > there are few enough steps to get them from word processor document or > HTML to wikicode, then that would speed up these "XXI Texts" up > enormously. > That would be an amazing project -- we should also investigate alternatives for converting entire PD texts -- possible developing a script which could convert a Gutenberg text, set up subpages and basic formatting with headings and sub-headings. We'll take a look. Do you have any example texts you want to convert .... Worth a look. << Rob Kruhlak and Helena Mill are helping us out with reconfiguring our existing tutorials in preparatation for the move to Rich Text Editing. See: http://wikieducator.org/Help:Rich_text_editor_tutorials >> Well, I guess I can't kvetch about it and then not help. Let me see > what I can do with it once I feel sufficiently familiar with the > extension. At what sort of timeframe are we looking here? > We're hoping to have the RTE tutorials finished by the end of the month --- may be a bit tight, but any help, even editorial review will be a great help. Cheers Wayne > > -=Steve=- > > > -- > Stephen H. Foerster > http://wikieducator.org/steve > > > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
