Forum posting question

Mike Schwartz · 04-26-2014, 02:08 AM

Is there any way to force the forum to display a message in plain text? I want to paste a race report that was formatted in a text editor into the body of a new message. It is being converted to Arial(?) and it looks awful.

Example:
FINAL, ROUND 8 ELIMINATIONS
Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET--(+/-)-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---(+/-)
12 Jeff Teuton 12.219 -1.081 Q 22 M.J. Quinn 11.797 -0.953
5 (D Magnuson ) 0.570 12.181 -0.039 E5 (B Wenzel Sr.) 0.536 11.777 -0.093
6 (C Knudsen ) 0.594 12.210 0.040 E6 (B Harris ) 0.530 11.806 0.016
7 (B Baker ) 0.501 12.244 0.044 E7 1.332 18.910 6.160
ET/SA Dial: 12.24 J/SA Dial: 11.80
8 *****WINNER***** 0.568 12.260 0.020 E8 0.570 11.780 -0.020

Mike Schwartz · 04-26-2014, 11:02 AM

At this point I'm stuck. No matter what you do in the editor you can't use multiple consecutive spaces. They are stripped out when the message goes live in the forum.

Examples (I entered 5 spaces between each letter in the HTML editor):

A B C D E

A B C D E

A B C D E

Additionally, if you edit in the WYSIWYG editor, the multiple spaces that you previously entered are then stripped out, IN THE EDITOR, after you preview. But if you switch back to the HTML editor you see that all the original spacing still remains, in the editor only. This seems like a bug in the forum software.

Larry Sullivan · 04-26-2014, 11:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike Schwartz

Is there any way to force the forum to display a message in plain text? I want to paste a race report that was formatted in a text editor into the body of a new message. It is being converted to Arial(?) and it looks awful.

Example:
FINAL, ROUND 8 ELIMINATIONS
Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET--(+/-)-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---(+/-)
12 Jeff Teuton 12.219 -1.081 Q 22 M.J. Quinn 11.797 -0.953
5 (D Magnuson ) 0.570 12.181 -0.039 E5 (B Wenzel Sr.) 0.536 11.777 -0.093
6 (C Knudsen ) 0.594 12.210 0.040 E6 (B Harris ) 0.530 11.806 0.016
7 (B Baker ) 0.501 12.244 0.044 E7 1.332 18.910 6.160
ET/SA Dial: 12.24 J/SA Dial: 11.80
8 *****WINNER***** 0.568 12.260 0.020 E8 0.570 11.780 -0.020

Easy - post a link to the source instead of cutting and pasting copyrighted material.

Yo Ken · 04-26-2014, 11:31 AM

Larry has a good point. DRC uses allot of resources and hard work to bring you quailifying and round resutls.

I think out of respect alone you just post the link to the page.

Mike to answer your question, you can not copy and past the DRC format. The forum does not use the html code on DRC, it just reads the info. There is no bug in the software, its designed that way for a reason.

Ken

04-26-2014, 02:08 AM	#1
Mike Schwartz Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Maryland USA Posts: 533 Likes: 129 Liked 248 Times in 89 Posts	Forum posting question Is there any way to force the forum to display a message in plain text? I want to paste a race report that was formatted in a text editor into the body of a new message. It is being converted to Arial(?) and it looks awful. Example: FINAL, ROUND 8 ELIMINATIONS Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET--(+/-)-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---(+/-) 12 Jeff Teuton 12.219 -1.081 Q 22 M.J. Quinn 11.797 -0.953 5 (D Magnuson ) 0.570 12.181 -0.039 E5 (B Wenzel Sr.) 0.536 11.777 -0.093 6 (C Knudsen ) 0.594 12.210 0.040 E6 (B Harris ) 0.530 11.806 0.016 7 (B Baker ) 0.501 12.244 0.044 E7 1.332 18.910 6.160 ET/SA Dial: 12.24 J/SA Dial: 11.80 8 ***WINNER*** 0.568 12.260 0.020 E8 0.570 11.780 -0.020

04-26-2014, 11:02 AM	#2
Mike Schwartz Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Maryland USA Posts: 533 Likes: 129 Liked 248 Times in 89 Posts	Re: Forum posting question At this point I'm stuck. No matter what you do in the editor you can't use multiple consecutive spaces. They are stripped out when the message goes live in the forum. Examples (I entered 5 spaces between each letter in the HTML editor): A B C D E A B C D E A B C D E Additionally, if you edit in the WYSIWYG editor, the multiple spaces that you previously entered are then stripped out, IN THE EDITOR, after you preview. But if you switch back to the HTML editor you see that all the original spacing still remains, in the editor only. This seems like a bug in the forum software.

04-26-2014, 11:31 AM	#4
Yo Ken Administrator Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 220 Likes: 13 Liked 587 Times in 35 Posts	Re: Forum posting question Larry has a good point. DRC uses allot of resources and hard work to bring you quailifying and round resutls. I think out of respect alone you just post the link to the page. Mike to answer your question, you can not copy and past the DRC format. The forum does not use the html code on DRC, it just reads the info. There is no bug in the software, its designed that way for a reason. Ken __________________ Administrator Class Racer.com