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    • Difficulty inputting text to the Wiki

    Posted by joelg posts: 104 France

    I'm having real problems inputting text to the Wiki.

    My users don't want to actually format the text using the Wiki interface (this interface). They are all used to MS-Word and don't see why they should learn something else (I agree with them).

    The solution we agreed on is that they would prepare their texts in Word, then simply cut/paste into the Wiki window.

    The problem is, I am encountering two difficulties:
    1) Some kind of weird, invisible character gets stuck into the Wiki, causing it to turn off the standard character format (and revert to courrier or soemthing); that would not be so bad, if it were not for the fact that doing this causes the width of the Wiki page to completely wild and shoot off the edge of the screen (to the right).
    I have tried cutting/pasting from Word into Notepad to lose all the formatting, then into the Wiki, but to no effect. In the end the only solution I could find was to identify the spot in the text where the error occurred, then in Notepad delete all the "apparent" blanks, then cut/paste back into Wiki. This worked, but is also incredibly time-consuming (v bad publicity for Tiki) and tedious.

    2) Other problem, the text sometimes gets cut off when you hit the save button. After that, the text looks ok, its just missing a bit at the end. Don't know yet whether this is due to a timeout problem or something else. Maybe more trash in the text?

    Has anyone come across this problem before? Can anyone suggest a solution?

    Thanks, JG

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    Posted by Damian Parker posts: 2881 United Kingdom

    The monospaced font formatting is caused by the first character on the line being a space. You can disable this in Admin->wiki under the automonospaced font

    There is also somewhere a MSWord macro which converts a word document to wiki syntax, so all the formatting is preserved!

    Damian

    Posted by tekkan posts: 1

    > The monospaced font formatting is caused by the first character on the line being a space. You can disable this in Admin->wiki under the automonospaced font
    >
    > There is also somewhere a MSWord macro which converts a word document to wiki syntax, so all the formatting is preserved!
    >
    > Damian
    >


    Where could I find this MSWord macro?

    Thanks

    Mike


    Posted by Damian Parker posts: 2881 United Kingdom

    Actually an improvement on that, if to create a small VB script app, which runs the convert macro, then posts the page into the Tiki site through XMLRPC. Probably about 2 hours coding work.

    Damian

    Posted by joelg posts: 104 France

    This is great help and advice! I found the Wiki option, I found the Word macro, they both work as advertised on a quick test. 😂

    Whether I get around to programming the XMLRPC is another matter - it may be 2 hours for someone who knows what he is doing, more like 2 weeks for me!

    But anyway, thanks for the very effective help.

    In the meantime, before getting these answers, I tried preparing my texts using OpenOffice instead of Word. Guess what? No problems!!! 🙄

    JG


    Posted by joelg posts: 104 France

    This is great help and advice! I found the Wiki option, I found the Word macro, they both work as advertised on a quick test. 😂

    Whether I get around to programming the XMLRPC is another matter - it may be 2 hours for someone who knows what he is doing, more like 2 weeks for me!

    But anyway, thanks for the very effective help.

    In the meantime, before getting these answers, I tried preparing my texts using OpenOffice instead of Word. Guess what? No problems!!! 🙄

    JG


    Posted by tekkan posts: 1

    > The monospaced font formatting is caused by the first character on the line being a space. You can disable this in Admin->wiki under the automonospaced font
    >
    > There is also somewhere a MSWord macro which converts a word document to wiki syntax, so all the formatting is preserved!
    >
    > Damian
    >


    Where could I find this MSWord macro?

    Thanks

    Mike