Gotcha. Not being able to easily copy-in from G-Docs and fotnotes+pictures being lotsa work.
Chatting with the team, their sense is that copy-pasting footnotes is very unlikely to ever work between editors (e.g. I don’t expect footnotes to be copied functionally into MS word, Dropbox paper, or any other editor you might use). If that’s the case, I would like to build the ability to do a direct import from g-docs, which would solve these problems.
Also agree with the images. The big thing we don’t do right now is host images, which means you have to upload them to the internet yourself then put the URL into our editor.
The current state of the plan is to do a big overhaul of the editor framework either this quarter or next, where I expect us to spend time on these issues and others. In general we found that making small edits to the current editor for things like this were too costly in both the short and long run, and we’d also prefer an editor a bit more like google docs in a bunch of ways.
Just adding something here: I had done all my images and footnotes well and then switched back and forth between editors, which somehow messed it all up and I had to manually insert all footnotes again.
Gotcha. Not being able to easily copy-in from G-Docs and fotnotes+pictures being lotsa work.
Chatting with the team, their sense is that copy-pasting footnotes is very unlikely to ever work between editors (e.g. I don’t expect footnotes to be copied functionally into MS word, Dropbox paper, or any other editor you might use). If that’s the case, I would like to build the ability to do a direct import from g-docs, which would solve these problems.
Also agree with the images. The big thing we don’t do right now is host images, which means you have to upload them to the internet yourself then put the URL into our editor.
The current state of the plan is to do a big overhaul of the editor framework either this quarter or next, where I expect us to spend time on these issues and others. In general we found that making small edits to the current editor for things like this were too costly in both the short and long run, and we’d also prefer an editor a bit more like google docs in a bunch of ways.
Just adding something here: I had done all my images and footnotes well and then switched back and forth between editors, which somehow messed it all up and I had to manually insert all footnotes again.
Cool, direct import from g-docs would do the trick from my perspective. Thanks for the update!