Font quandary
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Hi all,
I was wondering if there was a way of keeping the font the same when copying and pasting from different sources or changing the font from a source I copied and pasted to match the font I’m using ? My blog is located at http://lisamichele.wordpress.com Amy help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Lisa -
It may not be a good idea to do that:
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/why-not-to-use-word/
A search of the forums will reveal lots of folk who have had problems pasting from word, online sources, and other incompatible sources.Best to paste plain text and edit with html in your editor.
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Thank you for the link, 1tess. I’ll take a look and hopefully find something that might help! lol
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OK, although I wasn’t referring to pasting from MS Word (I meant online recipe instructions that I futz with, and would require quite a bit of typing, so the basic outline gives me a head start), I was wondering how I could paste and then, according to WordPress, ‘use either a plain text editor then post to our editor and format the text’. That’s ‘kinda’ Japanese to me at this juncture (on pain meds, they make me loopy..lol).
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The link probably won’t help, but will save you some trouble with having your sidebar pushed out of place or posts with very odd formatting that looks out of control.
This tells you what sort of html code you can add to wp.com blogs:
http://support.wordpress.com/code/
It’s a bit intimidating at first, but it’s not really impossible to learn. Mostly it’s logical.Very nice pictures on your blog, btw!
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If you really want to maintain fonts and such, use offline blog posting software such as Windows Live Writer. That way, when you upload the post to your blog, it comes in cleanly without all of the gobblygook that messes up your site.
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Ha! I’m studying Japanese cooking!
Ok, I get you now. I thought you wanted to maintain the formatting from “other sources” or Word (often they have the same problems).
You just want to paste plain text!
On Macs, it’s textedit. (There is an equivalent on Windows, but I don’t know the name—sorry)Or you could just use the “post as plain text” button in the post editor window.
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Thank you SO much, 1tess and vivianpaige! I’m currently on a Mac laptop since I just got home from a rehab facility (knee ligament surgery after an accident… ad nauseum) so I can’t yet get down the stairs to my PC (a home PT is going to start working with me on that soon..YIKES!) so textedit would be my only option for now. However, I’ll probably end up just using the ‘post as plain text’ button. One question – to do that, would I highlight the copied and pasted text and then click on the plain text button so it converts the highlighted section to plain text?
As for your sweet compliment about my photos.,.thank you, as I’ve been striving for better photos for quite some time now, and finally caved in and bought a dSLR. I’m still learning, and have a ways to go..but what an improvement when compared to the photos in my earlier entries! PLUS, it’s so much fun composing and taking the photos now :) I can’t wait until I’m 100% mobile again!!! As for the Japanese cooking, YUM! Are you enjoying it?
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Highlight the text in textedit (make sure under preferences that it is set to plain text first) and copy it out. Then go to the wordpress post editor, click on the post as plain text icon and then paste the stuff from textedit into the window that comes up and then click “insert.”
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The “paste as plain text” button is useful for getting rid of excess code when you paste from Word or other such sources. If you use Textedit you don’t need it: you can paste directly to the post editor.
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I’ve had some weird stuff come in from time to time with textedit – Mac webkit codes and such, so I always use the paste as plain text. I don’t know if that was something specific perhaps to the Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4 version of textedit since I haven’t pasted from it in a long time. I do know if you have textedit set for RTF, it will bring in strange stuff that wordpress doesn’t seem to like, which is why I suggest setting the preferences for plain text.
Perhaps with 10.5.X there isn’t a problem, or perhaps wordpress has changed some of their stuff in the TinyMCE plugin they use for compatibility here.
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lisamichele,
“knee ligament surgery” OUCH. I broke my ankle 2 years ago and it was…well, you do know how awful. Do the PT—my pt was great. (I wish I had her back.)—but whether you like your therapist or not, do the exercises. Jealous that you have a new dSLR. I got a macbookpro instead. And yes, I’m enjoying the Japanese food though I hate cooking for only myself these days.
OK, back “on topic”
Looks like your questions have been answered well by tsp and pana.
Happy blogging! -
thesacredpath,
“if you have textedit set for RTF”
I’ve had some issues with RTF in the past. But with the new laptop, I don’t think so. (?)
I guess I don’t really know about 10.5.X except no problems so far. -
I’m not totally happy with 10.5 although I’m not unhappy either. There are some things that are quite a bit slower for me, and when I look at the amount of ram being used, it is considerably higher than 10.4.
10.6 though is supposed to be a big optimization and performance upgrade. That is their main focus. I’m looking forward to that release. It’s supposed to take less RAM, and less disc space, and have a sizable performance boost.
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hmm. 10.6?
Does that mean I have to buy more stuff?
I got this MacBookPro as soon as it came out. Okay, I was dumb, so ctually a few days before the new one came out, so I had an out-dated laptop in less than a week. I went back to the lovely Apple Store. They gave me the new one, and there were problems with that one, so they gave me another one.
crpp! No not really. I’m happy with this.
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sacredpqath and pana, tthank you! I decided to just use the ‘post as plain text’ button, and just inserted. It worked out perfectly :)
1tess, I also broke my fibula (ankle) in the accident, but it healed within a month in a half in a splint and then a boot….most probably because it was a clean break and the bones were still touching. Bones heal much faster than damn ligaments :( I love the therapists I’ve had, although some were a little too aggressive even though my surgeon wanted subaccute therapy for now. One bent my knee ao violently,,,past the 45 degrees he wrote down, that I swear she did something to it! I’m a little worried, but I see my surgeon next week, so hopefully he’ll set my mind at ease!
On the topic of Japanese cooking, have you checked out my homemade Shichimi Togarashi and Edamame hummus? Ironically, it was during that photo taking session that I injured myself!! LOL
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