Re: Adding Minimal Formatting To Unformatted Newbie Posts

[Argel]

Thanks for the attempt and an interesting post!

I wonder if it might help to set some goals/milestones? For example, I would think the first goal should be to address broken formatting, such as missing closing tags (e.g. bold and italics) and long lines within a PRE block since they can push nodelets right off the screen (see Nodelets on the left? for a workaround).

Then the next goal might be to address trying to put code into code tags, etc.

Another possibility is to detect potential issues and then present them to the user to correct. Maybe they would just be ignored, but maybe not. Regardless, that would at least allow for separating the project into the easier problem of detecting potential issues and the harder problems of trying to determine if they really are an issue and if so how to resolve them.

[tye]

I disagree. Those are separate problems and shouldn't be combined.

Mis-closed tags are already detected and rendered harmless by the "HTML nesting enforcement" squad (enable them at Display Settings while they remain optional awaiting a couple of bug fixes). They also present the problems found to the user in hopes that they will correct them (control how much they will present to you at the same location).

Inappropriate line lengths in PRE tags likewise won't be part of "fix an unformatted node".

And the original problem here is pretty simple, despite Limbic~Region's admittedly aiming too high. I just added a reply clarifying how simple (nay, simplistic) I would like the solution to be.

[Argel]

Point taken. I guess I would prioritize as follows: First make sure one node doesn't affect the formatting of another node or the rest of the page (such as long lines within PRE tags, etc.), and then move on to other possible formatting issus. That was my underlying thought process.