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Title: Formatting weirdness lately
Post by: zxcvbob on April 13, 2021, 01:58:35 PM
These started a week or two ago.  When I double-space at the end of a paragraph, SMF changes it to a triple-space when I hit the Post button and I have to go back and edit.  Also when I paste text with Control-V it is often resized down impossibly small and I have to edit that to make it readable. 


Get off my lawn!  (there should be one blank line above this but it'll probably be two)
Title: Re: Formatting weirdness lately
Post by: K Frame on April 13, 2021, 03:19:41 PM
It is correct that you should be punished for committing the heinous sin of double spacing after a period.
Title: Re: Formatting weirdness lately
Post by: cordex on April 13, 2021, 04:22:49 PM
You are in WYSIWYG mode.
In the post section there is a "Toggle View" button that looks like this:
(https://www.armedpolitesociety.com/Themes/oldstylecore/images/bbc/toggle.gif)

Click on that to exit WYSIWYG mode and those problems will go away.
Title: Re: Formatting weirdness lately
Post by: 230RN on April 13, 2021, 04:36:29 PM
I just wish my machine would quit trying to guess what I want to highlight with my cursor.

Hey, I wanted to highight from where I held the button down to where I let it go.  Don't go "thinking" I must have wanted to highlight that whole word, mustn't I have?

And no I didn't want the whole paragraph highlighted.  Just like I said, from from where I held the button down to where I let it go, that's all. Got it?

Damned know-it-all machine !

Terry
Title: Re: Formatting weirdness lately
Post by: Hawkmoon on April 13, 2021, 05:20:41 PM
You are in WYSIWYG mode.
In the post section there is a "Toggle View" button that looks like this:
(https://www.armedpolitesociety.com/Themes/oldstylecore/images/bbc/toggle.gif)

Click on that to exit WYSIWYG mode and those problems will go away.

Where is this icon supposed to be? I don't have anything that looks even remotely like that.
Title: Re: Formatting weirdness lately
Post by: zxcvbob on April 13, 2021, 05:23:41 PM
Where is this icon supposed to be? I don't have anything that looks even remotely like that.
It's on the far right when you are in Post reply (and I suppose new thread) mode.  Just below the "Change color" box.
Title: Re: Formatting weirdness lately
Post by: 230RN on April 13, 2021, 06:26:30 PM
It's there in the PREVIEW mode in mine,but not in the BBCode Quick Reply window.

If you click "Preview"  with a blank Quick Reply window, you get:

Quote
The following error or errors occurred while posting this message: The message body was left empty.

No matter, ignore, just type in or paste your stuff.

Terry
Title: Re: Formatting weirdness lately
Post by: Hawkmoon on April 13, 2021, 11:07:30 PM
It's on the far right when you are in Post reply (and I suppose new thread) mode.  Just below the "Change color" box.

I don't have any icon that looks like that.
Title: Re: Formatting weirdness lately
Post by: 230RN on April 14, 2021, 01:56:28 AM
I don't have any icon that looks like that.
  Look at my Reply  #6 just before your above post.  It explains in better detail where it is.

Terry
Title: Re: Formatting weirdness lately
Post by: Hawkmoon on April 14, 2021, 12:38:40 PM
  Look at my Reply  #6 just before your above post.  It explains in better detail where it is.

Terry

I saw that and I did that. I don't see any icon that even remotely resembles what Cordex posted.
Title: Re: Formatting weirdness lately
Post by: cordex on April 14, 2021, 02:18:41 PM
I saw that and I did that. I don't see any icon that even remotely resembles what Cordex posted.
(https://i.imgur.com/2mQV83a.png)
Title: Re: Formatting weirdness lately
Post by: Hawkmoon on April 14, 2021, 02:40:38 PM
What I see:

(https://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=64316.0;attach=3889)
Title: Re: Formatting weirdness lately
Post by: cordex on April 14, 2021, 03:12:25 PM
Apparently you are using a different theme with a different icon.
Title: Re: Formatting weirdness lately
Post by: Hawkmoon on April 14, 2021, 04:03:22 PM
Apparently you are using a different theme with a different icon.

Yes, I concluded that was the issue with my not seeing the icon you showed.

But ... when I click that icon in preview mode, it doesn't add an extra blank line/space between paragraphs. In fact, I have no idea what it's supposed to do, because as far as I can see it doesn't do anything.
Title: Re: Formatting weirdness lately
Post by: 230RN on April 14, 2021, 11:05:00 PM
You might have Version 3.8A.940900982T378785 instead of Version 3.8A.940900982T378786.

:dry humor emoticon:
Title: Re: Formatting weirdness lately
Post by: 230RN on April 14, 2021, 11:09:05 PM
double post again, dang it