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Formatting of forum posts

andrew_troupandrew_troup Member, Mentor Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I find it slightly irritating that the forum software correctly displays the difference between "Italic" and "Bold + Italic" in the Preview pane, and yet when a submission gets posted, everything in Italics is rendered as Bold + Italic.

I presume this is a bug, and clearly it's a minor one, but if it's simply rectified -- perhaps a case of some wrong setting -- I would like to see it fixed.

After all, the most fundamental definition of good communication is:
message sent = message received.
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    lougallolougallo Member, Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 2,001
    edited June 2015
    I have noticed that italics is showing up bold.  Let me see if I can fix that.... I believe it is our font we are using but let me see what I can do.
    Lou Gallo / PD/UX - Support - Community / Onshape, Inc.
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    lougallolougallo Member, Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 2,001
    edited June 2015
    This should be fixed now with a slight tweak..  (I hope this works..btw, this is in italics...  this is italics with bold applied)
    Lou Gallo / PD/UX - Support - Community / Onshape, Inc.
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    andrew_troupandrew_troup Member, Mentor Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2015
    Yay, Lou, you da man!
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    andrew_troupandrew_troup Member, Mentor Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just one tiny thing: now, for all text in italics, the font changes to a smaller serif font (not in the preview, which remains correct, but when the text is posted)
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    lougallolougallo Member, Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 2,001
    @andrew_troup I think something reverted... 
    Lou Gallo / PD/UX - Support - Community / Onshape, Inc.
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    andrew_troupandrew_troup Member, Mentor Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2015
    Seems to be      italic bold italic bold    all OK now

    And the fix is retroactive (at least in this thread!)

    No sign of serifs, or undersizing: Looks good to go

    Thanks a bunch, Lou

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    andrew_troupandrew_troup Member, Mentor Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lou, the font for italics has re-reverted, since June 2, to a smaller, serif font

    Once again, the preview is correct, but the posted version is wrong

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    lougallolougallo Member, Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 2,001
    Yep.. I will fix it again..
    Lou Gallo / PD/UX - Support - Community / Onshape, Inc.
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    3dcad3dcad Member, OS Professional, Mentor Posts: 2,470 PRO
    I would like to see underline option in formatting to be able to gently highlight some points. Bold tends to be too powerfull if you just wan't that reader doesn't miss some important word and lose context.

    There are still problems with WYSIWYG, using formatting usually needs fixing html code to get it right..
    //rami
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    3dcad3dcad Member, OS Professional, Mentor Posts: 2,470 PRO
    edited September 2015
    @andrew_troup and others, if you wan't to add underline to your text - you can do it with simple edit in HTML view (</> button)

    Just add <u> where you want to begin underlining and </u> where you want to end.

    This is kind of hack and can be applied only from html editor, but it is pretty easy since you can bounce back and forth between html and wysiwyg. 

    //rami
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    3dcad3dcad Member, OS Professional, Mentor Posts: 2,470 PRO
    @lougallo Discussion seems not to popup in the top though I added a new comment into it.
    //rami
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    andrew_troupandrew_troup Member, Mentor Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @3dcad:

    I entirely agree with you: bold ends up 
    looking like shouting     because it appears
    to switch to a larger font when posted.
    The same applies to italic, but (again)
    not in the preview, where it is perfect.

    Here's what the preview looks like: (Although unfortunately, the forum software insists on scaling it UP)




    This problem is made more evident by the preview being in a different font than the post (the latter appears to be Onshape's 'house font').
     
    If it's not just under-performing forum software (written by others than Onshape, evidently), then maybe the house font designers did a great job of designing a nice looking basis font (looks rather like Eurostyle, to my eye) but something has gone wrong with the variants.

    The problem of the rather heavy linetype for bold seeming to be "over the top" is compounded by the extreme lightness of line for the basis font.

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