Strange behavior of Forum text editor

[Bob S]

I started a post with the word "Electric". After submission, the post started with the word "electric". I tried to capitalize "electric" three times, and the text editor thrice changed it to "electric". Well. if ee cummings can do it, i can too.

bob s

 

[cristo]

It's because you've got automatic library linking turned on. Turn it off in your user control panel, and that will work.

 

[Redbelly98]

I will hazard a guess that using the [noparse][noparse][/noparse] tags around the word electric, i.e. [noparse][noparse]Electric[/noparse][/noparse] will not trigger the autolink feature and the capitalization will be preserved.

I'm trying it here: [noparse]Electric[/noparse] . Yup, seems to work.

 

[tiny-tim]

It shouldn't happen with "electric" on its own, since there isn't a library entry with that name.

It can happen with "electric field", "electric displacement field, or "electric units".

A quick way to stop it is to type the word/phrase in black each time: Electric field Electric field

Or place it at the start of a line (other than the first line), since that puts it after a return tag, which spoils the autolinking (conversely, if you want the autolinking at the start of a line, insert a space first:
Electric units
Electric units ).

 

[nvn]

[noparse][noparse][/noparse] did not work for me. Here is an example. [noparse]Torque[/noparse] is moment. But enclosing the word in [noparse]Word[/noparse] does work. Here is an example. Stress and pressure have like units. Here is the same sentence without enclosing the first word in [noparse][/noparse] tags. Stress and pressure have like units.