Possible to create figures in Text Editor?

[Hal_C]

How do you create figures in the text editor?

I don't see a way to do it, but figures are very common in blogs and articles so it's hard to believe it would be completely left out of a text editor that is going to be used for that.

[Mircea_Piturca]

I you can add a custom font face if you edit your product or blog post text as HTML. Just add something like <span class="my-font-face"></span>.

Not very handy I'm afraid but it will work.

[Hal_C]

Yeah, I can't really rely on teaching clients HTML.

[Jason]

Hey Halley - I assume you're talking about the HTML <figure> right? There's no simple option to do this in the RTE without editing the HTML directly. You certainly could add some JavaScript to wrap images in figures.

With some crafty Liquid string manipulation you might also be able to do this in Liquid as well. There's a lot of caveats in that approach.

[Mircea_Piturca]

Hmmm, I thought he was reffering "figures" to emojis, smily faces... not the figure element.

[Hal_C]

I am indeed referring to HTML figures where you have an image and a figcaption. I've never heard of emojis being called figures.

I don't really like trying to parse the output of the rte whether it's with javascript or liquid. The structure of the output is very unreliable(it randomly started wrapping lists in divs recently which broke a JS parser I was using).

There is also the issue with determining which images and text should be inside a figure and which should just be an image with a paragraph after it. I'm not sure how I would do that without implementing some sort of identefier that the user could put in to signify the start and end of a figure, which wouldn't be much better than just teaching them HTML.

[Mircea_Piturca]

Sorry, my bad. But it remains the same issue. Without hardcoded markup you can only parse and hope that some unclosed tag or crazy nesting will not break the parser.