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Digifiend Since: Sep, 2009
#1: May 27th 2015 at 12:28:19 PM

If you try to indent text like this:

  • Example
    • Example
      • Example
        • Example

When you preview, the fourth one is shown to be further indented, but when actually publishing, it's treated as a three star indent. Please fix. The preview should match what actually gets published.

This is the page I noticed it on: Convergence

edited 27th May '15 12:29:13 PM by Digifiend

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#2: May 27th 2015 at 1:57:50 PM

We deliberately shut down indentation past three asterisks because 99.9999% of the time, it's natter. What are you trying to do that requires it?

Edit: Comicbook/Convergence doesn't even have third level bullets, never mind fourth.

edited 27th May '15 1:58:34 PM by Fighteer

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#3: May 27th 2015 at 2:47:20 PM

The preview thing is deliberate to show the editor that there is abnormal bullet point usage and that it looks ugly without showing it to all the world.

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#4: May 27th 2015 at 2:54:49 PM

You can actually disable indentation asterisks? Well, that certainly saves the mods a lot of trouble from having to drill proper indentation into people's heads. And users from having to hunt for bad examples.

Wonder why is wasn't done before. New feature or something?

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#5: May 27th 2015 at 3:12:51 PM

Because third and second level bullets are allowed as they have legitimate purposes, but are also the majority of misusage.

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MrL1193 Since: Apr, 2013
#6: May 27th 2015 at 3:41:54 PM

I'm admittedly not exactly a TV Tropes veteran (I've only been around a couple years or so), but fourth-level indentation has been disabled for as long as I can remember. I always figured it was because third-level indentation is as far as you should ever legitimately need to go (and on some pages, such as Recaps, second-level is all that's needed).

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#7: May 27th 2015 at 4:00:28 PM

The "change", if you call it that, is over five years old...

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#8: May 27th 2015 at 4:54:42 PM

I really have to question having the preview use a different style sheet then the actual pages, though. Sort of defeats the point of previewing

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DanTD Since: Oct, 2012
#10: May 28th 2015 at 12:33:15 PM

I can't find a thread for this, and I can't start a new one, but the previews won't even show up. For the past 1/2 dozen edits or so, I've been making edits and when I try to push the preview button to see if what I wanted to add turns out right, none of the tropes show up in the pop-up pages.

UPDATE: To further clarify what I'm talking about, when I edit anything, and I push the preview button I get this:

"This is a preview. Your changes haven't been saved yet.

The page is being shown at the most common width for readers. This may be different than your screen width.

If it looks okay to you, just close this tab/window and save your changes."

And that's it. I don't see a single trope in any of the previews.

edited 28th May '15 12:38:37 PM by DanTD

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#11: Dec 24th 2015 at 4:19:04 AM

The original issue of this thread is intended behaviour.

An issue about preview not working seems like it'd need its own thread.

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