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What's wrong with the handouts' text editor?

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Hello, sometimes I heve serious problems with text editor to write handouts. Text doesn't retain the formatting I give to it, doesn't align properly etc. I'm writing an index with references to D&D rules, but I'm experiencing problems with indentation and the unordered list option. Do you have any tip to overcome this issue? Sometimes is a little bit frustrating.

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David T.

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The site-wide editor is horrible.  I've heard rumors that they're looking into replacing it.

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Gianmarco V. (Ravencroma)

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David T. said: The site-wide editor is horrible.  I've heard rumors that they're looking into replacing it. Unfortunately is the only tool we have to write Handouts... hope that rumors are real

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David T.

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There is a workaround that comes in handy sometimes. If you know HTML, you can write your handout in HTML in an external editor. When it's finished, remove all of the line breaks. Then paste it into the handout. If all goes well, it should convert itself into WYSIWYG text. You can also do this with just parts of the handout: whatever HTML you paste in without line breaks will convert to WYSIWYG as defined by the HTML. But save your original HTML: you can't go backwards and extract the HTML from the Roll20 editor, so if you need to make a change and you don't want to risk using the editor, you'll want the HTML to copy again.

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Sky

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Write your stuff in Google docs and paste it in.

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Gid

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Gianmarco V. (Ravencroma) said: David T. said: The site-wide editor is horrible.  I've heard rumors that they're looking into replacing it. Unfortunately is the only tool we have to write Handouts... hope that rumors are real Not really a rumor. We really want to change our WYSIWYG editor. We know it's very frustrating to use. The reason we haven't gotten to it yet is that replacing it will take a lot of development time to change what we're using. This editor is used everywhere on the site, in-app and out, so it would be a major change. It would likely take an entire yearly quarter to implement if not more so. We're hoping that with the hiring of more developers, we'll finally able to have enough hands on board to improve on some of these long-standing pain points. For the time being, I would follow Sky and David's recommendations.

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Gianmarco V. (Ravencroma)

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I'll try Google Docs =)

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