On 12/21/05, Henry Ortega <juandelacruz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is there an easy way to edit or create articles with
proper HTML formatting?
Short answer: No
It doesn't make sense to me that we have put
manual <BR> tags to get a
break. Is there anything I can install extra that would let me display what
I
entered the way I entered it? If I put a line break after each line, it
should distinguish
it as a line break and insert a <BR> when displaying. Same with text
formatting..
It's extraordinarily useful in some cases to have soft returns merged
together. If you really want to force mediawiki to keep your
formatting, place your text in <pre></pre> blocks.
If pre looks ugly to you, you may want to change the style which pre
displays by editing MediaWiki:Monobook.css and putting in div
statements (although my own issues with this functionality continue,
so I can't advise on using it).
I am planning to have a team of people contribute
articles to our wiki site,
but I can't afford to train them that triple (') means bold, etc. I like how
Wordpress
(for e.g.) works as far as entering articles in concerned. That way there is
no training
required for non-computer savvy people to enter things in.
Any ideas?
Have everyone use the handy-dandy row of icons at the top of every
edit box. I personally use <b> <i> etc instead of the legacy
"ticks"
which other people seem to like.
Somewhere out there is a macro for word which will convert basic
formatting to mediawiki markup. This in combination with the external
editor option may be just what you want.
There are also a couple of WYSIWYG editors (wikiwyg) which might be of use.