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Anyone else find that users out-and-out HATE Textile? My users complain about it constantly. Does anyone get the same reaction with other markup languages? I want to make sure that it's across the board discontent, and not that there's anything particularly wrong with Textile.

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I definitely second that, and the source of the problem is the same as that with WYSIWYG editors: tables.

I've solved the problem by making things like tables editable in another content management module and including it in the WYSIWYG editor as %%%DATA_TABLE1%%%.

WYSIWYG seems to only work for me when I only allow the client to choose h1,h2,h3,etc.. and bold and italic. If you're just doing that, the WYSIWYG editor is fine and there's no need to try to teach your clients Textile.

Of course, this all depends on who your client is...

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