The editor is missing an option

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    bfbecula · Member ·

    I edit my site using the HTML editor. I examine my change, then click on the little ‘edit’ button at the bottom of the page. I am returned to the editor, and it shows the page I want, but a popup box tells me there is a more recent version, and offers me ‘close’ and ‘restore’. Neither of these gets me to page I am looking at, which is the one I want to edit. ‘Close’ does just that, ‘restore’ frequently gets me to an older version lacking the recent change. I don’t understand this, but it happens repeatedly. I notice that my editing process produces a semi-infinite collection of open windows, instead of returning to the edited page I am working on. Don’t understand this, either, unless I am not supposed to hit ‘edit’ to return to the editor. Should I just hit the back arrow?

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    themagicrobot · Member ·

    I think the issue is the way you are using your browser. When you are working on your post, save and preview if you want. But close the preview before you carry on working on your post. Don’t click “edit” in the preview or, as you’ve found, you’ll create multiple windows and multiple versions of the same post.

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    bfbecula · Member ·

    Thank you. I resolved the immediate problem by editing in an external editor, with cutting and pasting.

    Now, however, my customary HTML5 head, which looks like this:

    <!DOCTYPE html><html><head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title> Some title here </title>
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="dist/html5shiv.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../chapters.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../anchors.css">
</head>

    goes missing, and I lose the CSS files. The only problem this causes is that tables appear without cell boundaries, and I lose color coding on the anchors. I can live with this, but wonder whether I can, in fact, include my own CSS somehow?

    I notice that I have to delete the <title> line, and the IE shiv, to keep them from showing up twice (for the title) or as a confusing URL for the shiv. Again, no problem, just an experimental discovery.

    This is not a customary blog site, but an academic 25-chapter HTML book, some 1400 (print) pages long: a 20-year effort, and an entirely experimental one. The WordPress site basically lists the URLs for the 25 chapters, which are stored elsewhere along with many auxiliary files (images, comon navigation files — all this before I discovered WordPress), and the chapters can access their CSS files with no problem. But I added a couple of ‘derivative papers’ associated with the book, and they might profit from a bit of CSS styling.

    It’s more complicated than that, too. I would have added the derivative papers as PDFs, except that I write in Nisus, and Nisus (suddenly?) does something strange in keeping track of changes, so that when I convert its RTF to PDF, the most recent change shows up in line with the current version. Arrrgh! (Preview, my usual OS X PDF converter, can’t handle RTF. Apple, playing ‘Not Invented Here’ with MS’s RTF format, I suppose.)

    Anent PDFs: many sites have a way of downloading PDFs. Can this be done from WordPress?

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