Preview/Post with character

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Re: Preview/Post with character by epoptai (Curate) on Jun 14, 2001 at 00:06 UTC
Another annoying quirk of preview is how lists are handled. Let's say you have an ordered list in between two paragraphs. Preview shows a nice blank line before and after the list, but when you submit they vanish and leave you with a list flush against the preceding and following text. Imo preview should show exactly how perlmonks will render your input. -- Check out my Perlmonks Related Scripts like framechat, reputer, and xNN.	[reply]
Re: Preview/Post with character by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jun 14, 2001 at 00:01 UTC
Writing [ in the title, in the above message, did the same thing! It looked fine in the preview but vanished on the final submit. I think it's a bug by definition if the preview doesn't match the submit. It's there so I can fix limitations and problems and special chars! —John	[reply]
Re: Preview/Post with character by Vynce (Friar) on Jun 14, 2001 at 02:36 UTC
There are good reasons not to allow [ and ] (and other special characters) in the titles; but they should be weeded out when you hit preview. You'll note that a few threads have names like "TTuse strict/TT" because someone tried to put <TT> tags in their title. Possibly this should generate a warning to call the monk's attention to their transgression.	[reply]
Re № 2: Preview/Post with character by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jun 14, 2001 at 02:41 UTC
The next reply is a test to see which characters are "special" in titles.	[reply]
!"#$%&'()*+,-./ by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jun 14, 2001 at 02:45 UTC
Typed: ` !"#$%&'()+,-./` should look like: !"#$%&'()+,-./	[reply] [d/l]
--------- changed ---- bug in Newest Nodes by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jun 14, 2001 at 02:49 UTC
typed `:;<=>?@_^]\[`` should look like :;<=>?@_^]\[` .	[reply] [d/l]
Nope by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jun 14, 2001 at 02:51 UTC
See --------- changed ---- bug in Newest Nodes. Seems brackets are not =always= weeded out! (update: changed title 'cause it breaks Newest Nodes. test data still in body of node.)	[reply]