A general tip for people who run into formatting issues while copy/pasting text.
If you click on the menu dots on the right side of the editor, then the brackets [ ], it will switch from WYSIWYG mode to text mode that shows all of the BBCODE being used:
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Remove the BBCODE that's messing up the formatting and then hit the brackets again. The
list of BBCODE is located in the help section of the site.
You can also use Ctrl-
Shift-v to paste plain text without
any formatting.
Be aware it won't help if the text
itself has something like
[s] in it, which was the issue with that particular article. That'll be parsed as BBcode no matter what.
There are a few workarounds. One is putting inside
[ICODE] tags, like I did. Another is just putting an extra character in it... [s.] or [s ]. Another is formatting one of the characters differently, like
[s] or [
s]... that will put more BBcode between the characters, breaking apart the
[s] sequence so it's not recognized by the parser.
The final way, which is too clever, is to put
empty formatting inside of it, like
[[b][/b]s]. Now there's a bold tag with no contents in the middle of it. However, the editor doesn't like this, and it'll get rid of the "useless" bold tags if you switch from BBcode to rich text mode (or if you edit your post later, or if someone quotes it...).
