May 14, 2005

Yes, I'm Lazy

I have a question for the Great and Powerful Pixy Misa: Does MT 3 have little shortcut buttons (like those for bold, etc) for font color and size? I've noticed that Typepad has them and (gasp!) so does Blogger and wondered if we could get them...

Posted by Susie at May 14, 2005 04:32 PM
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#1

The standard installation has bold, italic, underline, url, email and quote buttons.

Posted by Jim at May 14, 2005 06:23 PM
#2

That kind of wysiwyg functionality can be hacked into MT3, but it's not native.

Oh, and Typepad's version ain't nothing to aspire to. It's seriously broken for many, many users. (a real sore point)

Susie, ther are a number of alternative applications you can write your post in that have great editing functionality, from which you then upload to MT. Some are deluxe and can be configured to connect to MT automatically - kinda like a deluxe desktop version of the MT post window. Others are just a nice, basic editing window from which you copy and paste to the MT post window. If you use Firefox, there's a sweet little extension that allows just such simple editing.

Lemme know if you're interested.

Paul

Posted by Light & Dark at May 14, 2005 09:37 PM
#3

Actually, I use Mozilla, Paul--is the extension compatible?

Posted by Susie at May 17, 2005 03:33 PM
#4

Trundling off to check...

Posted by Lightanddark at May 18, 2005 02:40 AM
#5

Heh... what was I (not) thinking?

In the Mozilla suite, you already have the functionality of the Firefox extension by default. It's called Composer. I don't have a build of Moz here at work, but I'm pretty sure it's under the Tools menu? It might even be a toolbar button.

Once activated, it will open a new window, with the kinds of controls you're looking for at the top. You just type in your entry, edit as you wish, then when you're ready to copy it to your MT post page, look for the button on the toolbar that looks like this < > (I think). That will toggle you between code view, and wysiwyg view.

Once in code view, just copy everything from the Composer window, and paste it into your MT window. You can also copy it into a text file on your own hard drive to make an offline backup.

See if you can make it work from this description. I'll check it out more when I get home & check back with you just in case.

Paul

Posted by Light & Dark at May 18, 2005 02:57 AM
#6

You can also compose in the Blogger editing window & copy & paste the raw html to MT.

Posted by Harvey at May 19, 2005 03:05 PM
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