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Member request: Indented text in Forum Posts

Added by Matt Gold over 13 years ago. Updated about 13 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority name:
Normal
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Category name:
BuddyPress (misc)
Target version:
Start date:
2011-04-17
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Description

We've received a request from Michael (whom I've subscribed to this ticket) to include a button that will indent text in forum posts. I know that we used to allow formatting on posts through TinyMCE but stopped because we had problems with it. Is it time to revisit that?

Actions #1

Updated by Boone Gorges over 13 years ago

Reintroducing the TinyMCE box will take some work. Bumping to 1.3.

Also, what does "indent" mean? Like a blockquote?

Actions #2

Updated by Matt Gold over 13 years ago

Thanks, Boone. Yes, indented text means text that is tabbed over five spaces or so from the left margin.

Actions #3

Updated by Boone Gorges over 13 years ago

Yes, I understand the general meaning of "indented". Just wanted to clarify that this meant something along the lines of blockquote, and not paragraph-level first-line indent. The former is easy, the latter is hard.

Actions #4

Updated by Matt Gold over 13 years ago

I guess I don't know the answer to this -- Michael, can you chime in with your intentions here? -- but I'm pretty sure that blockquote-style indenting would be fine.

This thread has me thinking of these lines from Airplane!

Rumack: You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.
Elaine Dickinson: A hospital? What is it?
Rumack: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.

Actions #5

Updated by Boone Gorges over 13 years ago

Stop calling me Shirley.

Actions #6

Updated by Michael Ferraro over 13 years ago

Blockquote is more than I was thinking. I would just like to be able to insert a Tab character.
I copied a tab character from another document and pasted into my post, as a workaround.

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Actions #7

Updated by Boone Gorges over 13 years ago

  • Target version changed from 1.2.1 to 1.3

Thanks for the clarification, Michael. This should be doable, but my own view is that we should have a Tab button alongside Bold, Italic, etc, rather than usurping the Tab key itself. I don't want to mess with the UI convention that Tab can be used to navigate to the next field on the page.

Actions #8

Updated by Matt Gold over 13 years ago

That sounds like a good idea to me, Boone. Nice catch on the tab button UI convention.

Actions #9

Updated by Boone Gorges over 13 years ago

  • Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
Actions #10

Updated by Boone Gorges over 13 years ago

I have written a small TinyMCE plugin that enables tab indentation. I've just added it to BuddyPress Docs: https://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-docs/commit/fb65a5818e646cfbcb1fe01a46332aab7a30c655 I'll be putting into other parts of the site as soon as I've reenabled rich text editing sitewide.

Actions #12

Updated by Matt Gold over 13 years ago

Thanks for your work on this, Boone. I know that it was neither easy nor fun. I appreciate it.

Actions #13

Updated by Boone Gorges about 13 years ago

  • Status changed from Assigned to Resolved
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