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.

Elda Taluta; Sarks Sark; Ark Arks

In reply to Re: Adding Minimal Formatting To Unformatted Newbie Posts by Argel
in thread Adding Minimal Formatting To Unformatted Newbie Posts by Limbic~Region

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