How do you handle custom formatting (font-size, etc) of journal articles?

RE: How do you handle custom formatting (font-size, etc) of journal article

2009-09-19T03:46:42Z

You can go there to vote for all kinds of features you might want

RE: How do you handle custom formatting (font-size, etc) of journal article

2009-09-17T20:01:10Z

WordPress actually has it. If you have "god rights" you can configure the tool bar in the editor for everyone else from the control panel. That said, WP is a PHP based application, but its widely deployed enough and has WordPressMU which can scale to thousands and thousands of blogs per instance so I have to believe that it's pretty robust.

RE: How do you handle custom formatting (font-size, etc) of journal article

2009-09-17T19:25:07Z

Ok, thanks. I first understood that you're needing, implementing and posting a solution, it's an improvement suggestion ;-)

I'm currently thinking along some whitelist configuration in the article I linked. I'll probably not do interactive configuration in the control panel though.

RE: How do you handle custom formatting (font-size, etc) of journal article

2009-09-17T19:17:48Z

http://www.liferay.com:8080/web/guest/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Web+Content+Improvements

Please... feel free to add stuff.....

RE: How do you handle custom formatting (font-size, etc) of journal article

2009-09-17T18:54:03Z

Great news, thanks for your feedback. May I ask where you intend to post? As a sidenote, if I'm not getting feedback about existing measures to sanitize HTML on this question I'm probably providing a hook to sanitize HTML to a whitelist soon.

RE: How do you handle custom formatting (font-size, etc) of journal article

2009-09-17T16:56:34Z

I'm posting an improvement about limiting the formatting available from the control panel. We need this too! The default Web Content editor allows the changing of font colors, font faces, etc. Most of this is HIGHLY undesirable on a professional corporate web site.

RE: How do you handle custom formatting (font-size, etc) of journal article

2009-09-13T18:03:39Z

It's been a while since I posted this, but I'm still curious about other's experiences and procedures.

How do you handle custom formatting (font-size, etc) of journal articles?

2009-09-04T08:40:58Z

We're operating a number of liferay installations for various customers and have mixed success in keeping the look and feel of journal articles consistent. The main reason is user/author/editor preferences for formatting their own articles and the "out of the box" available formatting options in the WYSIWYG editor.

As we're working with users and systems that are not (staffed with) full time editors, the editors are not too experienced with managing web content and (sometimes) like to format headings as "font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold; color: #33333" instead of "<h1>". If they user almost proper formatting and think that <h1> is too large, they choose <h2> or <h3> as their top level heading. Also, paragraphs are often adjusted in size depending on the authors/editors personal screens, display settings and preferences.

Together with the default options of system-dependent font-sizes small, larger, xx-small this leads to desaster.

This is what we usually do:

With regard to LPS-3046 I'm changing the available font-sizes to a percentage-based list of choices instead of the display-dependent
For certain content I offer structures/templates that take some formatting options away from the user - like positioning of images and formatting/placement of additional notes for the images. Due to the low volume of articles this is usually done after a number of common article forms is identifiable.
With varying success I'm trying to teach users to not use the formatting options the editor offers

I'm reluctant to take away all the formatting options from the editor, as problems like "pasted word content" or "h3 as top level heading format" would still remain.

I understand that the root problem is to educate the editors about proper semantic markup but I'm also interested in supporting technical means and configuration. I don't expect a silver bullet but would like to hear your experiences.