Using bold automatically inserts spaces
I did a quick search and didn't see anything, so my apologies if this has already been reported:
I am finding whenever I use bold to highlight words in my documents, an empty space is getting automatically inserted at the end of the word.
For example, if I end this sentence with a word in bold and the turn off bold before using the period, there will end up being a space between the last word and the period which I did not put there and can not remove.
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8 years ago
What browser are you using? If IE does the same "clever" things which Micros**t Word, when you try to highlight a word, it'll force you to include the trailing space.
As an alternative, you can also use the (undocumented :-( ) keyboard shortcuts instead of highlighting with the mouse. Hit Ctrl-B (or Cmd-B on a Mac), then type the word(s) you want in bold, then hit Ctrl-B again when you're done. That will guarantee that only the characters you intend to be bold will be.
Reply 8 years ago
Software:
OS: Fedora 14 (latest versions of all packages)
Browser: Firefox 3.6.13
Plugins: No Script is installed but instructables.com is permitted. Adblock Pro is also running, as well as Lazarus. Can't think of anything else which might affect the text field.
FWIW I was using the keyboard shortcuts for the bold settings.
While in the editor, everything looks fine. Its as soon as I save that the spaces get inserted.
You can see it throughout this Instructable I submitted earlier today:
https://www.instructables.com/id/Brain-Controlled-RC-Helicopter/
Cheers
Reply 8 years ago
This is weird. I looked at that I'ble, and it's obvious what's causing the extra spaces (see my earlier reply); the same effect may be seen in the topic text here, as well. I just created (and deleted) a forum topic of my own (MacOSX 10.5.8, FF 3.6.12), and do not see the trailing whitespace. I don't know whether Matt and Rachel are going to be able to troubleshoot this, if it's not reproducible.
Reply 8 years ago
Ah, hah! Very weird. Using "View Source" makes the cause of this problem obvious, and it must be a bug on the I'bles server side. The HTML which is generated has a carriage return after each </strong> ending tag. A carriage return is (properly) interpreted as whitespace, leading to the weird behaviour you report.
Reply 8 years ago
Nice! Thanks Kelseymh! I never knew Word gave you bonus freebie spaces when you highlighted and added attributes to text. That's useful to know!
Reply 8 years ago
It pisses me off. If I try to highlight part of a word, the d**ned thing will automagically cover the whole thing, and either the leading or trailing space (apparently depending on whether the time of day is odd or even). Did I mention that I hate Micros**t?
Reply 8 years ago
I'm sorry to laugh at your pain...but I really can't help it. This is why I have Ubuntu with open office (best purchase I've never made). I don't turn on the windows machine unless I really need to. The mac goes on a little more often, but only because I have the Photoshop suite on it (Gimp just doesn't quite live up to my standards yet).
Reply 8 years ago
Purchase Linux? Ur doin it rong. :p
(What, did you pay for tech support...or are you pointing out that it's free? :D )
Reply 8 years ago
The only times I use Fn Word is when someone else has sent me a document, or a form, which I need to modify. Otherwise, I use Emacs. I have a proper Unix (FreeBSD) system on my laptop (MacOSX 10.5.8), so I can use real applications :-)
Reply 8 years ago
I have WIndows XP, but only because it was already installed on the PC when I bought it, and I can't be bothered to change it.
I use Open Office, and only save documents in Word format because the idiot machines at school won't recognise them otherwise.
Reply 8 years ago
Matt, please follow up on this. See the OP's followup to me -- in forum topics and I'bles steps, the Rich Editor appears to put a carriage return immediately after closing tags.
I am now testing it myself, using the Rich Editor for this paragraph. Everything looks fine while I type it. If I'm right, there should be extra spaces in the first sentence when I post.
8 years ago
Testing.
Reply 8 years ago
How about at the end?
Reply 8 years ago
Maybe I can reproduce it with the Rich Editor?
Reply 8 years ago
Nope.
What software are you using?
Reply 8 years ago
That seems really awkward. I'm not sure why that would happen. Though it doesn't seem to happen in Firefox on Ubuntu.
Reply 8 years ago
What about Chrome.