Testing ReText
Here some basic testing procedures are listed.
Current version is for ReText 3.0.
If you find an issue/bug, please report it!
Python 3 support
- Just run ReText with Python 3 (
python3 /usr/bin/retext, orpython3 /path/to/retext.py)
Google Docs support
- Just export your document to Google Docs and check if it's exported with correct formatting, etc
- Update your document and export it again, ensure that the document on the server is replaced ut available under the same URL
WebKit support
- Ensure that the parsing engine is correctly switched via the menu ("Edit → Enable WebKit engine"), and the current layout (editing/preview/live-preview) is preserved
- Ensure that printing works
- Ensure that PDF/ODT/GoogleDocs export works correctly
Plain Text support
- Use Plain text (in menu, check "Edit → Plain text")
- Check if PDF/ODT/GoogleDocs export works correctly
- Check if HTML files are saved with
.htmlextension and Plain text — with.txtand then opened with correct editing mode
Export Extensions support
[Export Extensions] were introduced in ReText 3.0 and allow you to add your own export functions to ReText. See the documentation linked for details, write your own extensions and report any issues you find.
Other issues
ReText can display some warnings in its Terminal output. Please report all these things.
Related
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Johan
2011-10-28Running Ubuntu Oneiric, most things work. However, most (but not all) bullets in ODT look like "placeholder boxes" (non-rendering unicode characters). Also, I don't get any option to export to Google Docs, even if I've entered my credentials in the config file.
Also, even though I realize it's standard behavior to enable "plain text" mode for files ending in .txt, I use that extension for my markdown files (required by the phone app I use, etc.) and I'd love an option to disable the plain text mode through the config file!
Last edit: Johan 2011-11-08-
Dmitry Shachnev
2012-03-06I'm really sorry, but I somehow didn't notice your comment before now.
- ReText doesn't do ODT export itself, it relies on Qt for that and it seems to be an upstream issue
- You need python-gdata to be installed to use Google Docs export
- Thanks for the suggestion, I will add such an option in one of coming releases (3.0.0 or 3.0.1).
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Dmitry Shachnev
2012-03-25Update: ReText 3.0.1 now has a
autoPlainTextconfiguration option, setting it tofalsewill prevent ReText from automatically enabling the plain text mode.Thanks for the suggestion!
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Anonymous
2012-03-05Also running Ubuntu Oneiric, I do receive the export option for Google Docs, but it fails to upload. Tested it with both my Google Apps and ordinary gmail account. The python thingy for gdocs is installed and newest version. It is aware that my Gmail account and password is correct, since it gives an error message if I put a fake user name / password combination.
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Dmitry Shachnev
2012-03-06Which versions of ReText and python-gdata do you have?
Do you get any error messages in the terminal output?
Last edit: Dmitry Shachnev 2012-03-06