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ghost

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2007-12-04

Posts: 2

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Upgrading from Htmlarea 3

I have been using html area sense version two and feel its time to move up.
I have spent a few hours today playing with Xinha and over all I am impressed.
A couple of Minor problems
1. Spell check is not working for me on my localhost I have deliberately misspelt words and it has not found them.
Do I need to configure this plugin to suit my system , or will this work ok on a live site ?
2. Tidy seems to wipe out most of my text.
3. killword and Clearfonts not working on Ms word 2003 text, although the Paste as plain text feature more then makes up for this

any feed back would be welcome
Ghost

Last edited by ghost (2007-12-04 16:46:24)

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Practicality

Xinha Community Member

Registered: 2007-02-15

Posts: 24

Re: Upgrading from Htmlarea 3

I have run into all of these before.

For 1: Check your language. American English and British English spell things differently. Also, check your browser and see if you are getting any javascript errors. Something might not be included correctly, or the spell check may be failing entirely.

For 2: Tidy might need the settings tweaked to work with your set up. Check out the copy you have under xinha/plugins/SuperClean/tidy.php
I use the following settings:

      $res_1
        = PostIt(
          array
            (
              '_function' => 'tidy',
              '_html'   => $_REQUEST['content'],
              'char-encoding' => 'raw',
              '_output'       => 'warn',
              'indent'        => 'n',
              'wrap'          => 0,
              'break-before-br' => 'y',
              'bare'          => 'y',
              'word-2000'     => 'y',
              'drop-empty-paras' => 'y',
              'drop-font-tags' => 'n',
              'ascii-chars' => 'y',
              'output-xhtml' => 'y'

            ),
          'http://infohound.net/tidy/tidy.pl');

For 3: While you can run all the plugins, it works better if you pick the best ones for your set up. I generally use "SuperClean" (which does tidy) and just have it do KillWord in the process. That fixed this problem for me.
(http://xinha.webfactional.com/wiki/SuperClean)

ghost

New member

From: Ireland

Registered: 2007-12-04

Posts: 2

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Re: Upgrading from Htmlarea 3

Thanks for the reply Practicality
I am still testing Xinha
I feel a problem here is the stable version on the the download page is still a little buggy ,
and should be replaced by an older More stable version , while the minor issues with the current version are dealt with, while I dont programe in javascript i cant help there ,but i will over the next few weeks test the features of Xinha and create support tickets where possible.

Mick

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ray

Xinha Administrator

From: Germany

Registered: 2005-03-23

Posts: 521

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Re: Upgrading from Htmlarea 3

The latest version is  of course the least buggy available!
Unfortunately not all plugins are so up-to-date, but that's only natural in an heterogeneous, plugin based system. Creating tickets is a good way to help.  Thanks