[Xerte-dev] Re: sanpit example of non standard chars

[Ron Mitchell]

Yeah good point but obviously many people just paste direct from Word to
Xerte without even using notepad in between. At least when it's all done and
released the new editor has a paste from word option! 

 

On that note the short video at the bottom of this LO has a quick video
reflection from Maria Neary and Bob Read after a sneak peek at the new
editor http://mitchellmedia.co.uk/xot/preview_134#page1section3 

 

John/Tom they were very impressed!

 

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 10 July 2014 16:29
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: sanpit example of non standard chars

 

The paste into notepad route has a banana skin if you don't copy the text
from notepad again: your clipboard is still full of the word text, you paste
it into notepad, fail to copy it and then paste (the original word text)
into xerte. I've wondered if that's what happens sometimes.

 

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 10 July 2014 16:27
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] sanpit example of non standard chars

 

Hi all

thought I should share this example of what was a non playing if not
corrupted LO from the sandpit.

 

The helpdesk had a report from a user that his LO wouldn't export and now
wouldn't play.

I checked the export first and sure enough it wouldn't export and then I
verified that it wouldn't play either even though all looked ok in the
editor.

So then I looked at the xml expecting it to be corrupt like we've had with
other examples previously but in this case both preview.xml and data.xml
were still complete. However I noticed two oddities shown in the following
screenshots:

 

1. US instead of fingerprint line 121



 

2. what should have neen an apostrophe line 116



I've attached a copy of the xml so hope this gets through.

 

Questions I asked along with answers:

 

1. Did you copy and paste text in from Word or another external source?

I did copy, but from Word and PowerPoint into Notepad so I could remove the
formatting, then pasted into the LO.

 

2. Did you re-import these LO's at any point?

No

 

3. Are you ok with the dev team looking at a copy of the xml from your LO to
try to identify the exact cause and future prevention?

Yes

 

I wonder if this would have ended up with a completely broken LO rather than
just one that wouldn't play or export and I should add that after removing
the UN directly from the xml and adding an apostrophe via the editor the LO
plays and exports again.

 

HTH

Ron

 

 

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