Thank you, Janus. That's exectly the kind of reassurance I needed before going to bed... Wake me up, please, when I start howling because of nightmares.

Nanna, I couldn't get through any of the articles.  I tried one of the tests.  I think they were put together by some kind of analytical person who categorized things artificially ahead of time.  Anything disorderly had to be right brained, anything orderly had to be left brained.  That's not exactly how it works.  It was so stereotypical that one could guess the answers they want.  For example, an artist might appear, to the left brained person, to be in disorder he may be anything but - however it's not a kind of order the other would expect.  The paint brushes might indeed all be lined up.

Maxi

Originally written by Jacek K. on October 28, 2009 12:42 AM Thank you, Janus. That's exectly the kind of reassurance I needed before going to bed... Wake me up, please, when I start howling because of nightmares.

I’m just trying this RTE thingy out now, to see how it misbehaves with my own eyes. Testing with formatting around random quoted text:

• Iran 'to accept UN nuclear deal'
• Lost US pilots' licenses revoked
• Venezuela seizes 'Colombia spies'
• US charges two for 'Denmark plot'
• Australia coastal living at risk

Wow. Yeah, that is really atrocious. There does seem to be one silver lining, though: if things are jumping up and down and generally making a mockery of themselves (and more importantly, of you) when you’re trying to type and do your thing, just highlight all the text (Ctrl + A on Windows, Cmd + A on a Mac) and click the little eraser on the far right in the topmost of the three lines of buttons in the menu. That will get rid of all additional formatting and reduce the text to the most basic form of the HTML entity the text is enclosed in. Meaning, for those not too comfy with HTML, that if the text is wrapped in a ‘box’ that makes it “Header, level 1”, then the little eraser will remove all the extra colours and line heights and wings and bang and whathaveyous that the site you copied the text from may have chosen to add, and just display it as the very barest form of a “Heading, level 1”, which usually just means ‘big text’; and similarly with links, tables, lists, etc.: they’ll be reduced to their very barest forms.

Once that’s done, it should at least be possible to work more or less normally with things!

Edit: Now safely back in my comfort zone (the regular HTML mode), I can see that the code it spits out once everything has been ‘deformatted’ isn’t even so bad. Some unnecessary paragraphs and things, but cosmetic issues, nothing more.

Thank you, Janus. For the moment, I will have to leave it be, but I will look at your suggestions in the morning. 

Here's praying to happy dreams...

Nanna

Originally written by Janus Jacquet on October 28, 2009 1:56 AM just highlight all the text (Ctrl + A on Windows, Cmd + A on a Mac) and click the little eraser on the far right in the topmost of the three lines of buttons in the menu. That will get rid of all additional formatting and reduce the text to the most basic form of the HTML entity the text is enclosed in.

Thank you, Janus, for explaining the meaning of that eraser. (That leaves us only 20 other buttons I have no idea what to use for...) But isn't that the function of the middle one of the three posting pads in the first row, the T one? (I don't know what the one to the left of it does BTW.) It guarantees an immediate pasting of anything, in a bare form completely stripped of any graphic features. Exactly what one would never want to do...