Help with converting a thread?

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#1

joni-san

Mar 20, 2010 17:00:40
OK, I created and maintain the Comprehensive Eberron Art Thread. The problem is that it has not been updated in ages, the code is obsolete and when I press the edit button everything collapses into a huge wall of text. I'd like to add new stuff, fix the text size and maybe try something new.

So, any advice on what to do? I have all the text on a .odt file, for archival and help in editing.
#2

TelinArtho

Mar 22, 2010 16:14:44
Just using a quote button and looking at the code that way - I would suggest the following.

If you have an offline copy of it - add line break tags at the end of each line (if you have a text editor that allows doing regular expressions - this is a very quick thing). You can decide whether to update all of the rest of the tags (I would, but that's me - all of the tags are currently supported, you'd just not be able to view it with a preview.

Anyway, if you don't have an offline copy, you can add most of the line breaks with the same sort of regular expressions, you just need to identify where the most common line breaks are. For instance, adding a line break before each "[color" string and before each "[url" string catches a good many of them.