From e569247d7b836eac967b549f25d5e051fa6a908c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Sargent Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2025 09:11:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] TinyMCE text - online edit of handbook/computing/hbmanual1.html - on dev machine 'SnowWhite' --- handbook/computing/hbmanual1.html | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/handbook/computing/hbmanual1.html b/handbook/computing/hbmanual1.html index bb84a03aa..e09c2a0a2 100644 --- a/handbook/computing/hbmanual1.html +++ b/handbook/computing/hbmanual1.html @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ nearly all pages in this website. If you click on it you will be able to edit th

After editing the page you save your work by clicking on the "Submit" button at the bottom (see it at the bottom-left of the image).

There is nothing to stop you editing lots of pages by this method but you will find it extremely tedious. It is especially tedious creating the links between pages. -

Footnote: Currently this process does not properly tidy up after itself. Everyone can see your new edited page on the website immediately but you will need to ask a nerd to finish the process to make sure that your changes become persistent and don't get overwritten. [See the explanation at the bottom of this page if you want to know more.] +

Autogenerated pages

Some key sections of the online webpages are autogenerated from cave survey data @@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ This covers all files and names, not just just the handbook pages. Other parts o

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  • We use CaveView (Javascript) and may be using CodeMirror and/or TinyMCE for editing HTML online (work in progress 2025). +

    Automated formatting

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    Filenames

    Images: Relative and Absolute URLs

    When creating figures use one of these two constructions. The first with "rooted" URLs beginning with a "/":

    @@ -136,14 +139,15 @@ P.S. In older pages that have not been updated recently, you may see this archai Where the class="onright" attribute is set on the IMG tag and not on the FIGURE tag or an enclosing DIV tag. If you find one of those in a page you are editing, please update it to use the current <figure> and <figcaption> structure. [Note the mixed URLs in this example, one is absolute and one is relative: this is not a recommended style.] -

    TinyMCE

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    We used to use a WYSIWYG editor but it got terminally out of date in 2019. We should re-enable it, but it will need modifying because of the way we do images these days. + gosser bier +

    TinyMCE

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    We used to use a WYSIWYG editor but it got terminally out of date in 2019. We should re-enable it, but it will need modifying because of the way we do images these days. It lused to look like this and may do again in future:

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    Tidying up and committing the edits

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    'Edit This Page' edits the file served on the web, saves it, adds it to the list of proposed git updates, then finally does the git 'commit' on the server. Things can go wrong at each step of the process. +

    Tidying up and committing broken edits

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    'Edit This Page' edits the file served on the web, saves it, adds it to the list of proposed git updates, then finally does the git 'commit' on the server. Things can sometimes go wrong at each step of the process.

    Specific error message pages are produced if the file cannot be saved (usually a permissions error), if it cannot be added to git's list, or if the git commit fails (which would be due to a merge failure on a previous commit attempt).