Would you help me test the new article editor?
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This has been a long time coming, but I think I'm ready to have the new article editor tested. It's uses ckeditor which is superior to anything I've seen.
I've tried to make it give as much control over the editing of an article as possible while at the same time making the articles appear as they will when they are published.
To give it a try, go to http://searchwarp.com/CP-AddEditArticleV2.asp (you must be logged in.)
Please bang around on it, paste from Word, etc. and try to make it break. You can save your articles, and we'll delete them.
I'd love to know how it handles Microsoft Word documents, since more and more people are pasting from Word these days, and I don't have Word on my Mac.
Any suggestions, comments or complaints are welcome.
Thanks!
Answers to this question:Hi Bruce.
You know, I've never really used the old editor because I do all my writing in MSWord and then paste the finished product into the old editor. I like all the options offered with the new editor, but they might also be offered in the old and I've just never really payed attention to them.
The new editor (NE) will not let you paste into the body until you have typed a title. I like to paste the entire article, including the title, so that I can get the title exactly right. Very minor adjustment to be made. I could probably type nonsense in the title line and then do my paste.
The NE puts huge spaces between the paragraphs with a paste from MSWord where I only had one extra space between. I had to go back and close up the gaps. Also, while back spacing to close the gap, it spaces the beginning of the paragraph forward on space and so that had to be backspaced as well.
Ellipses in the old editor (OE) (when pasted from MSWord) never came through on the published end. However, they were always visible in the original paste to the OE. I added an ellipse (goodness, I hope that is what they are actually called:)) at the end of the first paragraph of the test article (Ring the Bells for Cash) that I submitted. Please be sure not to publish it! So hopefully, you can see what I mean.
As for breaking it ... I wouldn't want to do that. :) Sorry that this is the extent of my test. I really should write an entire article with it. Maybe sometime in the future ... just not right now.
Hope this helps!
Thanks Dianne. It figures that the thing that is the problem is pasting from Word, since that is something I can't test myself.
Can you tell me how you pasted into the editor? Did you right-click and select 'paste', press Control-V, or click on the button that says 'paste from Word'? This editor allows some customization of what happens when a Word doc is pasted. Guess I'll have to dust off my old PC.
I right clicked and copied. Then I opened the editor, put a cursor in the body part of the editor, right clicked again and selected "paste" from the drop down. I did see the "paste from Word" button, but too late to try it. Guess there is another thing to try in the future.
I tested it with my newest article, i didnt find any errors except that it deletes some *spaces*, for example, when i pasted my article from Microsoft Word 2003, there were instances in the pasted text that some words were glued together likethis, and also instances where the *spaces* after the dot in the finish of a sentence were also deleted.Like this.
And as you asked Dianne, the results were same when i pasted with CTRL+V, or mouse pasting or by the option.
Thanks Hyung, this helps.
The new article editor seems to have small problems. Whenever I copy and paste my article from MS Word, certain characters like space between words get missed and then I am forced to check again. But that's not much of an issue for me as I am happy to be reading my article all over again a couple of times to revise the content and work on it. Apart from that, everything else is fine.
Over the past couple weeks I've posted several articles using MS Word and it's about 50/50. Sometimes it will work properly and sometimes all I have to do is copy and post one more time and sometimes I give up because everything is out of whack.
What I have found, that does work 100% all of the time, is if I post the article to my own personal blog first (I post via e-mail to my blog, using Outlook) I can then copy the article directly from my blog and paste to the Searchwarp article editor using the "paste from Word" button, photos and all.
It's perfect in that respect because I don't have any patience and if I try to post something and it doesn't work time after time, I don't bother with it any longer.
The only thing better would be the option to post by e-mail.
I'm sorry that the editor is creating trouble for you, Patricia. Do you use the 'paste from Word' option when you paste directly from your MS Word document?
I love the idea of being able to post by email, I'll do some research on what that would require.
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