The troublesome [p] tag

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The troublesome [p] tag

#1 Post by webfork »

This is a minor issue, but as it took me a while to figure out, I thought I'd share:

When you post something to PortableFreeware's entry editor formatted from HTML, often the tags <p></p> proceed and follow your code. You can't see them until copy and paste into one of our WYSIWYG editors and then look at the code tab. I've been using BlueGriffon to do this and more complex stuff. With it, getting rid of the <p> tags helps.

So for example, if you wanted to indent this bit about Stealth status from the RedNotebook entry:
Creates:

%userprofile%\webkit\icondatabase\WebpageIcons.db
%userprofile%\.recently-used.xbel
You can't unless the <p> and </p> tags below are removed:

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    <p>Creates:<br />
    <br />
    %userprofile%\webkit\icondatabase\WebpageIcons.db<br />
    %userprofile%\.recently-used.xbel<br /></p>
The <p> tags seem to cause other problems too -- mostly when there's a carriage return following Synopsis: Program Description.


For example (good):
Synopsis: TheSage is an English dictionary
... looks like this (bad):
Synopsis:
TheSage is an English dictionary
Last edited by webfork on Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Putting "<p>" in the headline was not a good idea.

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Re: The troublesome [p] tag

#2 Post by Checker »

I don't like this, too :wink:
I always change/try to change an entry from "bad" to "good" if I see one.
One trick, if you have an synopsis entry with carriage return, is to write your entry in a simple text editor and then copy and paste it all at once.

It may be a browser "problem" ( :?: )
I'm using Opera as main browser and I have the following problem:
At "How to extract" it isn't accepting [italic] on xxx.exe. So I have to switch to Firefox to do the job.

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Re: The troublesome [p] tag

#3 Post by freakazoid »

Yeah I have this problem occasionally when making changes to an app's change log or description.
is it stealth? ;)

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Re: The troublesome [p] tag

#4 Post by Checker »

BTW: If I change "... Launch xxx.exe" into "... Launch xxx.exe" the system sees this as no change. So I need the "Force update".

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Re: The troublesome [p] tag

#5 Post by webfork »

Checker wrote:If you have an synopsis entry with carriage return, is to write your entry in a simple text editor and then copy and paste it all at once.
Very good point -- and I still do that when there's not a lot of other formatting. However, sometimes when there are multiple different links and formatting in the synopsis, replacing all those ends up taking more time than pulling it over into an HTML editor.

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