[ code ] not actually preserving spaces?

[bluepencil]

In reference to [ code ] [ /code ] pasted from BattleTech java designers like Solaris Skunk Werks and MegaMekLab, as evidenced here. This works on SB, but not here. It just strips out spacing and clumps words together like normal forum input text.


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Testing spacing with normal text.
There should be a wide space above between (with) and (normal text).

Testing spacing with											  code text.

There should be a wide space above between (with) and (normal text).

So it works with input text, but not pasted text.

[edit again]

Testing spacing with pasted text.
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Equipment Location Heat Critical Mass
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PPC RA 10 3 7.00

Never mind, I figured it out. QQ automatically strips spacing out of pasted text as soon as it drops into the text box.

This is... suboptimal. I need to figure out how to make QQ text boxes accept formatted text.

 

[Repentant_Dragos]

Never mind, I figured it out. QQ automatically strips spacing out of pasted text as soon as it drops into the text box.

This is... suboptimal. I need to figure out how to make QQ text boxes accept formatted text.

Click to shrink...

Posting the text in a Gdoc first, then pasting it again (not as plain text!) does it for me...

 

[bluepencil]

Posting the text in a Gdoc first, then pasting it again (not as plain text!) does it for me...

Click to shrink...

Testing:

Urbanhammer UR-HMR
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Equipment								 Location	Heat	Critical	Mass
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PPC										  RA		10		3		 7.00
PPC										  LA		10		3		 7.00
Machine Gun								  RT		0		 1		 0.50
Small Laser								  RT		1		 1		 0.50
Medium Laser								 RT		3		 1		 1.00
SRM-6										RT		4		 2		 3.00
Machine Gun								  LT		0		 1		 0.50
Small Laser								  LT		1		 1		 0.50
Medium Laser								 LT		3		 1		 1.00
@SRM-6 (15)								  RT		-		 1		 1.00
@MG (200)									CT		-		 1		 1.00
											Free Critical Slots: 3
 
BattleForce Statistics
MV	  S (+0)  M (+2)  L (+4)  E (+6)   Wt.   Ov   Armor:	  7	Points: 15
4		  5	   4	   2	   0	  3	 0   Structure:  6
Special Abilities: CASEII, SRCH, ES, SEAL, SOA

Awesome. Thank you!

Still not a clean copy but much better than before.

 

[Repentant_Dragos]

Testing:

Urbanhammer UR-HMR
================================================================================
Equipment								 Location	Heat	Critical	Mass
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PPC										  RA		10		3		 7.00
PPC										  LA		10		3		 7.00
Machine Gun								  RT		0		 1		 0.50
Small Laser								  RT		1		 1		 0.50
Medium Laser								 RT		3		 1		 1.00
SRM-6										RT		4		 2		 3.00
Machine Gun								  LT		0		 1		 0.50
Small Laser								  LT		1		 1		 0.50
Medium Laser								 LT		3		 1		 1.00
@SRM-6 (15)								  RT		-		 1		 1.00
@MG (200)									CT		-		 1		 1.00
											Free Critical Slots: 3
 
BattleForce Statistics
MV	  S (+0)  M (+2)  L (+4)  E (+6)   Wt.   Ov   Armor:	  7	Points: 15
4		  5	   4	   2	   0	  3	 0   Structure:  6
Special Abilities: CASEII, SRCH, ES, SEAL, SOA

Awesome. Thank you!

Still not a clean copy but much better than before.

Click to shrink...

You're welcome! Happy to be of help.

 

[alethiophile]

If the rich text editor isn't working, you can always drop back to pure BBcode and adjust the spaces manually.