In addition to bulleted lists and italics, the heading sizes (using #) should also be back to normal. Let us know if any other formatting things are still broken.

Rachel
Swap-bot Admin

Having bullet lists back is very welcome, thanks! :-)

Using ### in the body text of the pofile may be working - I haven't tested that - but it doesn't work in the section headers - the text typed in under "Other ...". Those headers are still (at least in my IE7) displaying like ordinary bold text in the body of the sections, and so don't stand out. Before the transfer, those section headers were a bigger font, which made it easier to scan through looking for particular sections. Is there any chance of getting them a size bigger again? If not, I'll need to work out an alternative.

I don't know if this is a format thing, but I have been working and working on a post now for a very long time, because I made the post and every apostrophe or quotation mark in the whole thing is, instead, some random characters like â?? or something like that. It's REALLY frustrating and makes it hard to read... especially the part where I described someone I know as being 6'7" and it reads that he's 6â??7â??. I've had this problem before and I think I just went in and manually deleted it all but this post is really WAYY too long to fool with that.

It also would be nice if you could post things in "lines" (as in say for instance, a poem) where at the end of a line you could press enter and start the next line, and when you posted it it would actually appear as being on the next line instead of out beside it.. because when you try to circumvent that by hitting enter TWICE the huge space in between looks bad and you still can't differentiate one stanza from another because you can't space more than one space in between....

Anyway the first one is the most important.

Thanks!

After MUCH fooling with it and trying to fix it I think the problem is that you simply cannot copy and paste single quote marks, double quote marks, or apostrophes from some other application (like Microsoft Word) into the swap-bot box... so those of us who have been screwed by NOT doing that in the past and then losing the information by accidentally closing the internet window or something... are actually screwed BY doing it, now.. :(

Is this a bug or was it made that way to serve some purpose?

Well... the frustration is with the way computers seem to have minds of their own themselves, anyway...not with anyone in particular or the people who run Swap-bot (I'm guessing Rachel and Travis?). I just thought I'd come here and post my "discovery" to ask about it and see if anyone knows how to fix it or if maybe the people who work on this site, if htey have time, could try to fix it if they didn't know about it.

Thanks again...

I compose my messages in Notepad rather than in Word partly because of that. I don't know offhand whether you can create a new document in Word as a text document rather than a Word document - I know you can save them that way, but it would be a nuisance tohave to save it out and open it again, so Notepad is much easier.

To write a poem or list with no blank line between text lines, just put 2 spaces at the end of every line, then the lines will not run together.

I'm frustrated that some totally normal special characters don't work... like ä, ö, ü, (these shoud be a, o and u umlaut) and I think pound sign, too?

The £ at least shows well enough to be recognisable, though it looks like it is an Australian pound, which would be nonsense as they use $$ now. The weird thing is that if you then edit your post and don't remove that initial character, because it itself is one of the special characters, it gets its own preceding character, like this - £.

I guess it is that these characters are represented as two bytes instead of normal one, when written, but when read, the browser thinks each byte represents exactly one letter. These weird symbols look familiar... I fight with them at work.

Yeah, I tried to copy and paste my post from Word into notepad and save it there after I realized what the problem was... and then re-open the text document and copy and paste it from there into the swap-bot page. It still did the same thing. I'm beyond frustration. Also, if you edit the post without deleting the original characters, it will add MORE of them. In fact I've done it several times before and gotten LONG strings of nonsense characters with fractions at the end (1/4, 1/2, etc.). ARGHHHHHH. I know what to do for FUTURE reference but it still doesn't help me with the post I did recently.

And the bad thing about doing it in notepad instead of word is, if you accidentally close Notepad or your computer goes dead while you're using Notepad, it doesn't automatically save it for you like Word does, which is kinda the point of writing it in a separate program in the first place... :(

interesting... just played with some of those.

Notepad can do fancy characters, too, I think - if you pasted the text from Word. But it does not make them fancy when you type straight into it.