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I wanted to type something like

lorem ipsum blah blah
?????? foo bar baz
quick brown cow

But found that when I tried to indent the middle line by selection, it indented the following line and if I dedented the third line, it dedented the second line.

Is this a bug or am I missing the technique of how to do this?? I eventually settled on just space indent.

Best,

Glenn

Glenn,

But found that when I tried to indent the middle line by selection, it
indented the following line and if I dedented the third line, it
dedented the second line.

Try using Shift+Enter to break the lines.

I haven't tested the Home page Description editor recently, but in a message body (New Topic or Reply) Enter inserts a line break, <br />, into the formatted text, whereas Shift+Enter inserts a paragraph break, <p> (and the corresponding end paragraph </p> somewhere later). Indent formatting operates on a paragraph basis.

Note: the Wiki page editor is the other way around: Enter is a paragraph break, Shift+Enter is a line break. The home page Description editor probably ought to work like the Wiki, but I've not tried it in ages.

When dealing with indents I find I usually need to experiment with Enter and Shift+Enter a bit to get what I want. Or else resort to the Source Code mode and subdue the HTML by hand.

Shal


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On 2/2/2019 12:39, Shal Farley wrote:

But found that when I tried to indent the middle line by selection, it
indented the following line and if I dedented the third line, it
dedented the second line.

Try using Shift+Enter to break the lines.

I haven't tested the Home page Description editor recently, but in a message body (New Topic or Reply) Enter inserts a line break, <br />, into the formatted text, whereas Shift+Enter inserts a paragraph break, <p> (and the corresponding end paragraph </p> somewhere later). Indent formatting operates on a paragraph basis.

Note: the Wiki page editor is the other way around: Enter is a paragraph break, Shift+Enter is a line break. The home page Description editor probably ought to work like the Wiki, but I've not tried it in ages.

When dealing with indents I find I usually need to experiment with Enter and Shift+Enter a bit to get what I want. Or else resort to the Source Code mode and subdue the HTML by hand.

Shal

Hi, Shal.

I got a chance this rainy morning to play with it a bit and discovered two things:

1) it doesn't seem possible to edit the group description after the group is created
2) in order to get what I wanted done, one needs to:

* type the line to be indented
* indent it
* hit shift-enter
* type the next line
* dedent it

In particular, the shift-enter doesn't automatically take one out of the indent.

I happen to edit on several MediaWiki style wikis and one thing that most of them have is a visual editor (like the description box) and also a text editor where one enters the markup (in the case of groups.io, HTML) directly and that might be a general purpose solution to various sorts of editing issues.? One can start with the visual editor, get most of it right and do a small fix or two in the plain text editor.

Best,

Glenn

Glenn,

1) it doesn't seem possible to edit the group description after the
group is created

I don't know why you think that. Unless you neglected to click the blue "Update Group" button at the bottom of the Settings page.

... one thing that most of them have is ... and also a text editor
where one enters the markup (in the case of groups.io, HTML) directly
and that might be a general purpose solution to various
sorts of editing issues.

See the "Source Code" button on the (advanced) toolbar of the edit box.

Shal


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On 2/3/2019 12:05, Shal Farley wrote:

Glenn,

1) it doesn't seem possible to edit the group description after the
group is created

I don't know why you think that. Unless you neglected to click the blue "Update Group" button at the bottom of the Settings page.

Ah. Because I only looked on the page with the description itself. It didn't occur to me that it was a "setting".

... one thing that most of them have is ... and also a text editor
where one enters the markup (in the case of groups.io, HTML) directly
and that might be a general purpose solution to various
sorts of editing issues.

See the "Source Code" button on the (advanced) toolbar of the edit box.

Perfect! Thanks.

Best,

Glenn