[Typo3-dev] RTE add multiple <p>&nbsp;</p> before real content

[ben van 't ende [netcreators]]

Rob De Vries wrote:

> also, if i paste text in the RTE (copied from a plain text, not some MS word
> chaos, it will add <p></p> around every sentence (yes, i use convert p ->
> br )

Hi Rob,

Welcome to RTE madness! The "<p></p> around every sentence" is probably 
caused by your textfile having linebreaks. Check that!. That seems the only 
logical thing. I allways convert textfiles first with NoteTab with the 
compress command. That gets rid of the unwanted linebreaks.

> strange i find so many posts about this subject (the RTE).
> My clients will work with the RTE most of the time, and the RTE will be
> there most important tool for typo.
> this is what they want, add text the same way they add text in there MS Word
> thingy.
> So a malfunctioning RTE isn't a good thing for typo.
> 
> All info about the RTE is spreaded around, a thousand different explanations
> why this or that doesn't work.

I found it to be pretty stable now with my own tweaked css_styled_content. 
WORD files are converted properly (Only the "namespace" issue remains, but 
there is a regex fix for that). Don't expect Word files with tons of native 
MS stuff like layers to get converted properly though.

> What is also the best second choose for a RTE when the standard RTE can't be
> used? (fx: client refuses to work with IE )
> after alot of installing, deinstalling reinstalling etc ...  rte_pb_htmlarea
> seems to me the best replacement. i guess...
> i think it is better to give 1 second option for the standard RTE and drop
> all the rest. this will make it all a less confusing.

This editor is super, bui\t there seems to be little support from the guy 
that made the extension (maybe he is on a holiday)

> sorry to say this, but i think all this RTE bussines is a mess ....
> please prove to me i'm wrong  ;)

I found the whole matter to become very messy when using other extensions. 
tt_news insists on converting <hx> to <typohead type="x"> and we experienced 
some issues with the tags extension Carlos Chiari did. The latter was fixed 
(by Carlos) by using proc.typolist = 0. We still couldn't fix the Header 
issue yet, though. I agree with you that it is messy, but that is more 
likely to be caused by our ignorance on the subject rather than the RTE 
being buggy or something along that lines. The APIs document provides some 
good guidelines.

Good luck

ben
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