[Mediawiki-l] searching for WYSIWYG-wikitext Editors

[Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C]]

I've also been using the FCKeditor and consider it much better than
straight wikitext, but have found what appear to be some bugs, the
results of which you can fix by dropping down into the wikitext editor
FCKeditor provides.  For example, if you place your cursor in the middle
of a word without selecting any text, then hit the Bold or Italics
button many times,. single quotes are produced as though it is trying to
put them around empty space.  Also, the template editor is useless since
it produces a single line of wikitext for you to edit.

But this is minor considering the benefits of the other tools that work
well, such as the table editor.  Being able to make a table in seconds
in Mediawiki, and easily modify it later, is SO much nicer than the ugly
wikitext method of pipes, dashes and exclaimation points.  Wikitext
reminds me of the days I programmed in Postscript, a language used by
laser printers to paint text and pictures on paper.  No one I know is
using that language on a regular basis anymore. I mean, Wikitext is so
last century :*)

-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Kathleen Cooch [mailto:Kathleen.Cooch at dominos.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 8:44 AM
To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] searching for WYSIWYG-wikitext Editors

Hi Simon
I have tried both tinymce editor and fckeditor on my wiki.
although the tiny mce offers more functionality it caused more headaches
as well.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TinyMCE_MW
with fck you can easily use wiki text as well as provide your user with
a basic wysiwyg
http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/index.php/FCKeditor_integration_guide
regards
kate

>>> Simon Jolle sjolle <urandomdev at gmail.com> 3/20/2008 7:12 PM >>>
Hi MediaWiki Admins

I am searching for an WYSIWYG Editor with wikitext support. Ideal would
be cross-platform and open source.

Any recommendations?

cheers
Simon



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