Feature #697
closedMember request: Indented text in Forum Posts
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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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
Updated by Boone Gorges over 13 years ago
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.
Updated by Boone Gorges about 13 years ago
- Status changed from Assigned to Resolved