On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 04:31:54PM -0400, Tedd Sperling wrote: > > Alan: > > Many thanks (I think) for giving me a lot to review. > > I was hoping a couple of primed regexs would solve the problem, but it appears to be something larger. > > I tried using the <textarea> approach and it seemed to work, but like you said the OS will have a say in what ultimately the user cut/paste operation produces. > > I had one client who pasted from a Word document where a bold character was orphaned (left open) and his entire web page turned bold and then complained to me about it — like I did something wrong. He was a nightmare to deal with. > > Like I said, I now have literally a hundred, or more, very highly educated people (the worse kind) cutting and pasting all sorts of styles to get their words recorded like they feel is important — style over substance. > > So, it’s back to the drawing board. I was hoping for a simple solution, but… Well, what else do I have to do during this “stay at home” period, huh? > > My wife wanted to take a trip, so I put up a map of Michigan in our kitchen and told her to throw a dart and wherever it landed, we would spend two weeks there. It looks like we’re going to be spending two weeks behind the refrigerator. I apologize for being late to the discussion, but how about those editors people put on websites? Wordpress used to use one, but they changed it a few years back. They present a sort of textarea box, but with widgets to allow bold, italic and the like. I don't know how they work-- I presume something Javascripty. Personally I can't stand the things. Instead, I wrote blog software which allows the (techie) user to upload fully formed HTML pages off their hard drive. But that wouldn't work with highly educated non-computer people. ;-) Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com
