Google Melange Editor Formatting

[Sergiu Ivanov]

Hello,

I have just copied-and-pasted my proposal from SymPy wiki (the final
version of the page, not the Markdown source) into the Melange editor
and, surprisingly, this did a very good job, preserving every single
bit of formatting I used. I think this might be added to the third
paragraph of the Writing Your Proposal section on the proposal
template page, which currently says:

Note that your final application must be submitted at
http://www.google-melange.com/, so do not worry about the formatting
of your application on the wiki, as you will have to reformat it
there.

I hope this would be helpful.

Sergiu

[Aaron Meurer]

In my experience, the Melange editor is buggy and unreliable. That's
why we state that you will not be penalized on formatting, so long as
it is readable. I suppose we can add this tip to the page.

Aaron Meurer

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[Sergiu Ivanov]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Aaron Meurer <asme...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In my experience, the Melange editor is buggy and unreliable.  That's
> why we state that you will not be penalized on formatting, so long as
> it is readable.  I suppose we can add this tip to the page.

I did have some previous experience with this editor. It looks like
they've made some progress; I've applied the copy-and-paste strategy a
couple times already, and my proposal looks OK, including
GitHub-formatted links of the kind [link-test](URL).

Sergiu

[Guru Devanla]

I also believe its behavior depends on what type of content you copy/pasted. If it is was markdown you copy pasted, then it might not do a good job.  I converted my markdown into HTML ( by doing View source ) from browser and then pasted into its HTML editor, and it seemed to work fine. Others may have different experience.

-grdvnl