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tubbs
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Hi, I really need to fix this. When users on my site submits articles, they submit it in plain text and it looks ok when i first check it. But, then there's this problem; the users have only one form-area to submit in, which becomes the "intro text". I then have to move the main part of the article to "body text". The intro text part is nicely formatted with single spacing, but the body text part looks freakish with double spacing. When looking at the printer friendly version it looks ok though... Could anyone please give me a hint about what to do?
(a suggestion for other releases of geeklog is to let the user have two submit field too, one for intro text and one for body text...)
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TIA
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tcarr
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News sites never carry the whole article as a solid chunk of text. There is always an opening statement or a kicker to draw readers into the article. Two text input boxes would allow the writer of an article to indicate their intended split between into and main text. It would also ease the work of the editor.
I would suggest a short term solution in a situation where the community members operate as peers. That is to assign everyone story admin rights so they can use the story admin block to enter their stories.
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Anonymous
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Sure, I agree, I could do that, but it still doesnt solve the crazy formatting , Im sure its something simple...
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Tony
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This was an old bug and has been fixed in newer versions of geeklog. I'd upgrade if I were you.
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Anonymous
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yup, but that would make do nothing but converting txt to html all day long... i actually have better things to do , but yes its a solution hehe.
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tubbs
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Now it works perfectly since i removed that extra nl2br() call, thanks a bunch Tony! what a relief thanks thanks thanks!
(for those of you who have the same problem: about line 183 in public_html/lib-common.php theres an unnecessary use of nl2br, it looks like this:
$article->set_var('story_introtext', stripslashes($A['introtext']) . '<br><br>'.nl2br(stripslashes($A['bodytext'])));
but should look like this:
$article->set_var('story_introtext', stripslashes($A['introtext']) . '<br><br>'.stripslashes($A['bodytext']));
I kinda had a feeling it was just a small thing like this
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