That’s annoying, but it explains the recent rash of incomplete posts. I recommend creating posts in Microsoft Word and uploading them when they’re done.
Use a plain text editor (like notepad), or alternatively, use Word and then after you’ve pasted your text into the box, select all and then click the remove formatting button, 4th from the right. (I’ve never tried the second option but I think it would work.)
The lesswrong css setting for body font is “Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif” (first match). Pasting from MS Word is a bad idea though, because Word will paste all kinds of weird HTML markup into the post for any but the most trivial of documents.
Open Office, Word etc are word processors—they’re designed for formatting text, and so pretty much by definition they’re going to include formatting markup. If you want to write plain text for elsewhere, use a text editor, like Notepad (if you’re on Windows) or Vim, Emacs or Gedit (if you’re on an operating system, rather than a virus-support program).
I agree with AndrewHickey that using a text editor is best.
If you are really averse to writing HTML by hand though, there is Amaya, which is a web editor/browser that should generate very clean HTML if you don’t explicitly set style properties. I haven’t used it for years though and can’t easily install it on Linux, but anybody on Mac or Windows should be able to install it fairly easily.
That’s annoying, but it explains the recent rash of incomplete posts. I recommend creating posts in Microsoft Word and uploading them when they’re done.
I tried this and the formatting came out all wrong. Does anyone know what font I should use if I want it to look normal?
Use a plain text editor (like notepad), or alternatively, use Word and then after you’ve pasted your text into the box, select all and then click the remove formatting button, 4th from the right. (I’ve never tried the second option but I think it would work.)
Thanks.
Alternatively, you could use Word, then copy and paste into a plain text editor, then copy and paste from there into your browser.
The lesswrong css setting for body font is “Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif” (first match). Pasting from MS Word is a bad idea though, because Word will paste all kinds of weird HTML markup into the post for any but the most trivial of documents.
I suppose its too much to hope that open office does better?
Open Office, Word etc are word processors—they’re designed for formatting text, and so pretty much by definition they’re going to include formatting markup. If you want to write plain text for elsewhere, use a text editor, like Notepad (if you’re on Windows) or Vim, Emacs or Gedit (if you’re on an operating system, rather than a virus-support program).
I agree with AndrewHickey that using a text editor is best.
If you are really averse to writing HTML by hand though, there is Amaya, which is a web editor/browser that should generate very clean HTML if you don’t explicitly set style properties. I haven’t used it for years though and can’t easily install it on Linux, but anybody on Mac or Windows should be able to install it fairly easily.
Thanks for the pointer, Clippy.