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Bizarre alignment/spacing/justification problems

Discussion in 'Suggestions & Bugs' started by Rathmun, Sep 14, 2019.

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  1. Rathmun

    Rathmun "Not interested" is not hate speech.

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    So, one of my readers just informed me that some of my old chapters are horribly mangled.

    When Scygnus reads This post everything after a certain point is all squashed onto a single line that extends off the screen. (No word wrapping)
    When I read it from my phone, I see the same behavior.
    When I read it from my laptop, I see everything on the correct lines, but the middle third of the chapter has tabs instead of spaces, and no word-wrapping, then the last third is center-justified.
    When Pseudonym reads it, everything after a certain point is centered, but the text is at least all on screen.

    When I go look at the BBcode, there's nothing wrong with it. There's not a single
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    [center]
    tag in the document. Heck, there aren't any tags at all between where the text is fine and where the formatting is borked.

    So... WTF?


    Edit: It's not just my posts either. this vote is also mangled when I look at it, as are many others.


    What's wrong with my thread!?
     
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  2. alethiophile

    alethiophile Shadowed Philosopher Administrator

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    The problem is that you've got [Ruby] as a marker on that vote, and per a change I made last week, that's now a BB-code.

    For a quick fix, you can write [plain][Ruby][/plain] in replacement every time. I may change the new bbcode name if it looks like this problem will be too widespread.
     
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    alethiophile Shadowed Philosopher Administrator

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    Okay, it looks like a lot more posts have used [Ruby] as a marker than have actually used the new ruby-text syntax. So I've changed it.

    Posts in the Conduit thread should now be fixed.
     
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  4. Rathmun

    Rathmun "Not interested" is not hate speech.

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    Phew. Thanks. Trying to fix every instance of that in a RWBY quest would have been quite the task.

    Ideally Nettally wouldn't use the same style of brackets as BBcode, but it does.
     
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