Pitamakan 2 Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 I think everyone who's tried to edit a halfway-complex note in Evernote has encountered situations where supposedly simple edits cause weird and unexpected changes to fonts, spacing, and other text attributes. It's because, of course, as we edit we're interacting with invisible, underlying HTML codes that we're unaware of.In situations like that, it would be a tremendous help to have the option of temporarily making some of that underlying HTML visible during editing ... kind of like the old WordPerfect "reveal codes" feature. I realize that it would be very impractical to actually make that code editable, and that much of the code would not be useful (or need to be visible). But if we could at least see font tags and such, it would make the editing of some notes infinitely easier for power users. Link to comment
engberg 89 Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Currently, you can see the deep internal structure of the XHTML subset if you Export a note to the file system. Then, you can open that in any text editor to see the raw HTML.As you guessed, this isn't safely edited by end users, since we require that the result fully comply with the XML DTD. Our servers will reject any notes that aren't cleanly formatted, which is important for our cross-platform consistency. Link to comment
Level 5 jbenson2 2,147 Posted December 20, 2010 Level 5 Share Posted December 20, 2010 As you guessed, this isn't safely edited by end users, since we require that the result fully comply with the XML DTD. Our servers will reject any notes that aren't cleanly formatted, which is important for our cross-platform consistency.Excellent point. It's nice to see some behind the scenes issues that help point out the lengths Evernote goes to in order to protect our data. Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,589 Posted December 21, 2010 Level 5* Share Posted December 21, 2010 Hmmm, I think it's to protect Evernote *from* our (bad) data... ~Jeff Link to comment
cleverusername 20 Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I would love to see a reveal codes feature. Evernote is rapidly become my favorite word processor. The ability to fine-tune notes would be incredible. Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,589 Posted November 9, 2012 Level 5* Share Posted November 9, 2012 You might want to check out the third-party tool ENML Editor: http://enml-editor.ping13.net/. Let's you get your hands on those dirty note innards. Link to comment
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