Editing for techs, geeks, and coders

Alternate editing options

Some people, particularly programmer/developer types, are often more comfortable using a text editor over a word processor or HTML editor.

For those people who consider text as king, the CMS offers a few alternatives to web page publishing. They are:

plain text
structuredText
reStructuredText

Each has it's advantages and disadvantages, but for the vi and text-editor minded, publishing in these formats can save hours of time. Using any of these formats can help you avoid hours of wrangling your hard-won code documentation into "pretty" web pages.

By default, the U of L CMS presents a fancy HTML editor to users for web publishing and editing. This is a default user preference, and can be changed by you or any user.

Follow these instructions to take advantage of these alternate publishing formats.

• Login (the login link in the top-left corner.)
• Click the "preferences" link in the top-left corner.
• Select "personal preferences" option
• Look for the Content Editor section, and change the drop-down option to Basic HTML Textarea Editor (works in all browsers).
• Save

Now you can edit content using one of the alternate editing options.

Any documents that have been edited using the Kupu wysiwyg editor will be HTML formatted.