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Re:Quill – An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API by solotraveller on Friday May 09, 2014 @12:26AM (#7719378)
Quill looks promising,but pasting from word doesn't seem to work.Most editors built today focus a lot on semantic tags generated for bold(<strong>) and not much on paste from word.Would love to see an editor that implements proper paste from ms word
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Re:Quill – An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API by decad on Friday May 09, 2014 @04:11AM (#7719880)
Support for copy and pasting from ms word is the biggest issue I currently have at my day job. We are creating online learning environments where the majority of the content has been created in other formats and is copy and pasted into our systems. We currently use TinyMCE but it is a pig to work with and I'm desperate for a better solution.
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Re:Quill – An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API by virtualwhys on Friday May 09, 2014 @01:29AM (#7719514)
Word is a quite a PITA indeed, have yet to find a client-side editor that reliably strips out the boatloads of extraneous markup that a simple copy-paste from Word generates.
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Re:Quill – An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API by crucialfelix on Saturday May 10, 2014 @05:44AM (#7724937)
yep, real world problems. I use lxml (python) on the server to remove the crap.

the ms markup is often much larger than the content

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