Bold in every empty line when copying from google docs?

[TheCompiler]

So I do all my writing in Google docs and copy it over, manually putting in BB codes for formatting and for the longest time there was this weird bug where the last line in the message would be bolded without my input. Weird, but not really an issue, so I thought nothing of it.

But I was editing something earlier and happened to switch into the BB Code editor mode and was surprised to find that, well, every empty line had:

[B] [/B]

While I'm aware that this is hardly a site-breaking bug, I found it odd enough that I thought I should report it. I've had some issues with extra Bold happening where it shouldn't and thought that some aspect of the empty-space-deleting plug-in you guys have was messing with me, but I didn't really expect this...for some reason. It's kind of obvious in hindsight.

Anyway, I spent half an hour doing some experiments and have them in a spoiler below. Hopefully it gets fixed, but I do understand that it's not exactly a priority. Also, unrelated bug (probably), but I was unable to ever go from BB Code editor to Rich Text Editor if there were any characters in the box, even just spaces

Spoiler: Experiementation Logs for the Bug

The following is from a fresh document (again, I use Google Docs for all my writing) with no changes besides writing the test. I then pasted it into the Rich Text Editor and switched to the BB Code Editor.

Test Document Line 1
Test Document Line 2
[B] [/B]
Test Document Line 3
[B]
[/B]
Test Document Line 4
[B]
 
[/B]
Test Document Line 5

Interestingly, instead of a tag on each line, the entirety of the empty space between paragraphs is bolded.

Next I tested what happened if you only copied half a sentence, as my initial test indicated something interesting happened. Using the same Data, I performed several tests, splitting each Test Document Line at the end of the word Document. The results are below.

Test Document Line 1
Test Document

Test Document Line 1
Test Document Line 2
[B] [/B]
Test Document

Test Document Line 1
Test Document Line 2
[B] [/B]
Test Document Line 3
[B]
[/B]
Test Document

Test Document Line 1
Test Document Line 2
[B] [/B]
Test Document Line 3
[B]
[/B]
Test Document Line 4
[B]
 
[/B]
Test Document

I was unable to replicate the 'interesting' version of the bug, but it was basically that the tag ended up looking like this:

Example Line 1
[B]
Example Line[/B]

Thereby bolding the last line. I have a few anecdotal instances from rooting through my various posts, but I usually edited out the extra bold when it happened previously, so there's not much.

 

[Biigoh]

I suspect that's more an issue with google docs and how they format stuff, and pasting into the rich text window.

Have you tried the BBC code editor, ie pasting in there?

 

[TheCompiler]

Have you tried the BBC code editor, ie pasting in there?

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Just tested it; there were no additional Bold Tags.

 

[Biigoh]

Just tested it; there were no additional Bold Tags.

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It'd be the interaction between the rich text editor and google docs.

I've seen it happen with word as well.

 

[TheCompiler]

It'd be the interaction between the rich text editor and google docs.

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As I said in my starting post, it's more strange than an actual issue, but do you think it'll be fixed? I understand if not, obviously, and the whole 'unable to swap from BB Code editor to Rich Text while the box is full' thing I mentioned is probably more important...even if it, also, is not exactly site-breaking.

 

[Biigoh]

As I said in my starting post, it's more strange than an actual issue, but do you think it'll be fixed? I understand if not, obviously, and the whole 'unable to swap from BB Code editor to Rich Text while the box is full' thing I mentioned is probably more important...even if it, also, is not exactly site-breaking.

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I don't think it could be... because it's an actual issue with the rich text editor itself trying to 'read' the formating of everything.

Myself, when I have to post story posts or such? I just switch to bb code editor and start from in there.

 

[TheCompiler]

I don't think it could be... because it's an actual issue with the rich text editor itself trying to 'read' the formating of everything.

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My main issue with that explanation is that both QQ and SB use Xenforo and it doesn't happen on SB (yes I know SB has XF2 now, but I still didn't get it before then). It might be totally true, of course, but I can't help but think that there's some difference between the sites that's doing it. I'm assuming its a plug in, because I know bugger all about the back end of the site but that's the kind of thing that'd manipulate the spacing. Maybe the extra-space-deleter? It does already mess with the contents of text directly...