More Editing issues

[Petrus4]

Hayes VM .d
When cut :


4:45 Dorm time
Boys Short:
Boys Long:
Girls A:
Great Room @ 5:30:

this text from a word document and paste it into the editor


it looks like this:


4:45 Dorm time
Boys Short:
Boys Long:
Girls A:
Great Room @ 5:30:

but when I save it, it looks like this:


4:45 Dorm time
Boys Short:
Boys Long:
Girls A:
Great Room @ 5:30:

Can any help me with this, or should I just report it as a bug?

[Petrus4]

ok the editor in this forum does the same thing!!! :mad:

It should look like this:

4:45 Dorm time




Boys Short:
Boys Long:
Girls A:
Great Room @ 5:30:

[royk]

your tab spaces are probably not being transferred to the editor - html has no concept of tabs - to create tabs, you'll need to either use our indent feature, or add the whitespace (with the space key) manually.

[Petrus4]

thanks Roy!

strange that html has no concept of tabs! so in essence any document with formatted with tabs loses its format when transferred to HTML?

mmmm... why is it that they don't anything that translates into a tab.

[SteveB]

HTML rendering doesn't respect white space between words. You could have 100 spaces between two words, but when rendered, you would only see one space. Tabs are treated the same way as a single space. This has to do with the original of HTML.

There is a special character code (non-breakable space) that allows to have multiple spaces in a row. This character is inserted when you click the space key and the editor detects a preceeding space character.

[Petrus4]

ok, I gotcha.... so any online editor is going to have problems with tabs, correct? Is there any work around.. apart form putting in spaces, instead of tabs into word documents. I have tried to convert a word document into html and then copying and pasting the html code into the wiki editor, but this still ignores tabs. Does anybody know of a conversion utility that would convert a word document to html and keep all the formating?