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Re: Indentation of wrapped list lines in "Edit" mode needed

 

Hi Jendrik.

OK - if none of the available editor components support indentation of wrapped lines: Second best solution would be a button to (re-)format the lists. Apart form the handling needed for explicit line breaks this could be done as follows: First make one line for each list entry, then insert line breaks and spaces to build nice indented paragraphs.
Notes:
1. I think that rendering for normal view would ignore these line breaks and spaces anyway. 2. I think a configured max. line length could be used for this re-formatting - some users may prefer that current width of edit window may be used.

Regards
Hans

Am 2015-06-29 um 11:40 schrieb Jendrik Seipp:
Hi Hans,

your proposal sounds good, but it will probably be difficult to implement something like this. Maybe switching to GtkSourceView as the editor component might simplify this, but I doubt it.

Cheers,
Jendrik

Am 29.06.2015 um 10:45 schrieb Hans Schmidts:
Lines of lists should be shown with indentation in "Edit" mode, e.g. not like this:

- The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. The
quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.
  - The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.\\
The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.
  - The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. The
quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.
- The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. The
quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.

but better as follows:

- The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. The
  quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.
  - The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.\\
    The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.
  - The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. The
    quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.
- The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. The
  quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.

(I hope it's still visible in the mail).

Reason:
Big advantage of RedNotebook is, that even in "Edit" mode there is some formatting (e.g. bold, underline, tags in red), which makes editing much more user friendly than e.g. wiki pages :). But lists are hard to read and very confusing, because the wrapped lines, and the lines after manual line breaks, are not indented according to the level of the list. A simple indentation with adding something like "virtual spaces" would be perfect for "Edit" mode, so I suppose and hope that support for this may not be much work. I'm almost always in "Edit" mode, because most of the time I need to change something, so for users like me such a feature is even more important than for general users.

PS.: I'm new in the mailing list, so excuse me if something formal is not OK - I use Thunderbird (not Outlook) for mailing lists, and hope that the format is OK.

Regards
Hans






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