[Fez-users] basic formatting possible in description field? (revisited)

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I'd like to know whether or not any further deliberation has been given to the possibility of managing basic formatting in the description field content of Fez generated records.  This topic seems to have been last discussed by Christiaan around October 2006 (followed with my own comment of late February 2007); I've seen no mention of a possible solution or request fulfillment, since Christiaan's posting, either within the mailing lists or within the FezWiki.

It would be hightly desirable to provide tabulated text (or at least some emulation of the appearance of columnar text)  in the desciption fields of nearly 5000 similar records, each of which might need to edited from time to time.  Currently, as everyone knows by now, any attempted formatting gets washed out by Tidy, whenever the editing form is submitted for saving (or so it seems).  Otherwise, all textual description data becomes jumbled into a single somewhat unintelligible "mass", except for single character spacing.  Even the highly undesirable practice of adulterating this metadata with hard-coded mark-up is uneffective in establishing some formatting, one Tidy gets a hold of it during successive form edits.

Any exchange of ideas would be appreciated immensely.

F. D. Smith