[campsite-support] On going problem with fonts
  • Vote Up0Vote Down importimport
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    Hi,

    We use campsite in an environment where journalism students work for a
    news website for two weeks. So every two weeks the group of people
    working with campsite changes to new people with no campsite experience.
    The main problem we always have is the fonts generated by the editors.
    While we have defined Verdana to be the main font in our css, and the
    editors are not able to set the fonts in the Xinha editor, still most of
    the time the font switches to Times New Roman. I know this can be solved
    by not pasting text from MS Word with ctrl+v but with the paste button.
    But many times the font switches to Times when you only change a word or
    put a return between lines.

    As a teacher i have to tell them over and over again how to fix the
    problem by selecting the text and pasting it again in the Xinha editor.
    But this takes too much of my time and energy that i am wondering if
    there isn't a way of switching of the font-setting by Xinha completely.

    Can there be an option in the backend settings that makes sure that
    Xinha doesn't set fonts at all?

    If that can't be done, is there a way i can hack the code and do it that
    way?

    Regards,

    Jeroen
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down importimport
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    Jeroen,

    Let's get to the bottom of this annoying issue and resolve it. Xinha needs
    some serious love (or ditching in favor of fckeditor), but for now all the
    core devlopers are busy with the 3.0 version (the php parser). Yet they
    should be able to tell you where to look for a hack. And we'd very much
    appreciate to hear about your findings/solutions.

    All the best,

    Sava



    Jeroen van de
    Nieuwenhof To: campsite-support@campware.org
    enhof.nl> Subject: [campsite-support] On going problem with fonts

    06/04/2007 09:08
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    campsite-support






    Hi,

    We use campsite in an environment where journalism students work for a
    news website for two weeks. So every two weeks the group of people
    working with campsite changes to new people with no campsite experience.
    The main problem we always have is the fonts generated by the editors.
    While we have defined Verdana to be the main font in our css, and the
    editors are not able to set the fonts in the Xinha editor, still most of
    the time the font switches to Times New Roman. I know this can be solved
    by not pasting text from MS Word with ctrl+v but with the paste button.
    But many times the font switches to Times when you only change a word or
    put a return between lines.

    As a teacher i have to tell them over and over again how to fix the
    problem by selecting the text and pasting it again in the Xinha editor.
    But this takes too much of my time and energy that i am wondering if
    there isn't a way of switching of the font-setting by Xinha completely.

    Can there be an option in the backend settings that makes sure that
    Xinha doesn't set fonts at all?

    If that can't be done, is there a way i can hack the code and do it that
    way?

    Regards,

    Jeroen





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  • Vote Up0Vote Down importimport
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    Hi Jeroen,

    You may want to start from the file editor_load_xinha.php from the
    implementation/management/priv/articles directory inside the Campsite
    sources. There you can configure xinha but I don't know how to specify the
    default font. You may find the clue in
    implementation/management/javascript/xinha/htmlarea.js

    Regards,
    Mugur

    On 4/6/07, Jeroen van de Nieuwenhof wrote:
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > We use campsite in an environment where journalism students work for a
    > news website for two weeks. So every two weeks the group of people
    > working with campsite changes to new people with no campsite experience.
    > The main problem we always have is the fonts generated by the editors.
    > While we have defined Verdana to be the main font in our css, and the
    > editors are not able to set the fonts in the Xinha editor, still most of
    > the time the font switches to Times New Roman. I know this can be solved
    > by not pasting text from MS Word with ctrl+v but with the paste button.
    > But many times the font switches to Times when you only change a word or
    > put a return between lines.
    >
    > As a teacher i have to tell them over and over again how to fix the
    > problem by selecting the text and pasting it again in the Xinha editor.
    > But this takes too much of my time and energy that i am wondering if
    > there isn't a way of switching of the font-setting by Xinha completely.
    >
    > Can there be an option in the backend settings that makes sure that
    > Xinha doesn't set fonts at all?
    >
    > If that can't be done, is there a way i can hack the code and do it that
    > way?
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Jeroen
    >
    >
  • Vote Up0Vote Down importimport
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    hi Jeroen !

    you can change the xinha default font just by editing a Campsite file:

    1- go inside to your www-common directory

    2- open the stylesheet file:
    vim priv/articles/article_stylesheet.css

    3- add the following lines at the very beggining:

    body {
    font-family: Verdana;
    font-size: 9pt;
    }

    well, this is just an example, set the values you want.

    4- enjoy and relax!

    do not worry about the "body" statement, you are not going to change
    the style for your entire page, it is just a trick for xinha Wink

    regards,


    On 4/11/07, Mugur Rus wrote:
    > Hi Jeroen,
    >
    > You may want to start from the file editor_load_xinha.php from the
    > implementation/management/priv/articles directory inside
    > the Campsite sources. There you can configure xinha but I don't know how to
    > specify the default font. You may find the clue in
    > implementation/management/javascript/xinha/htmlarea.js
    >
    > Regards,
    > Mugur
    >
    >
    > On 4/6/07, Jeroen van de Nieuwenhof wrote:
    > > Hi,
    > >
    > > We use campsite in an environment where journalism students work for a
    > > news website for two weeks. So every two weeks the group of people
    > > working with campsite changes to new people with no campsite experience.
    > > The main problem we always have is the fonts generated by the editors.
    > > While we have defined Verdana to be the main font in our css, and the
    > > editors are not able to set the fonts in the Xinha editor, still most of
    > > the time the font switches to Times New Roman. I know this can be solved
    > > by not pasting text from MS Word with ctrl+v but with the paste button.
    > > But many times the font switches to Times when you only change a word or
    > > put a return between lines.
    > >
    > > As a teacher i have to tell them over and over again how to fix the
    > > problem by selecting the text and pasting it again in the Xinha editor.
    > > But this takes too much of my time and energy that i am wondering if
    > > there isn't a way of switching of the font-setting by Xinha completely.
    > >
    > > Can there be an option in the backend settings that makes sure that
    > > Xinha doesn't set fonts at all?
    > >
    > > If that can't be done, is there a way i can hack the code and do it that
    > > way?
    > >
    > > Regards,
    > >
    > > Jeroen
    > >
    > >
    >
    >


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    /holman
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