Apparently I completely misunderstand the built in template tags {% autoescape &} and {% safe %}. Either they don't do what I expect, or I can't get them to do what I expect. But what I am trying to do is not at all unusual, so this post is all about learning from the community what are the best practices for getting this done.
Simply put, I want to be able to put some style on any arbitrary text in any arbitrary article on my site.
I have tried the version of TinyMCE built into Mezzanine. I found it both too limiting and too complex for my purposes. I also think the idea of using a wysiwg editor just to make a single word <b>bold</b> or with <font: color=yellow> highlighting is pretty heavy handed. There must be a better way. What is it?
I did stumble across a snippet for a custom template tag, https://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1242/, but it is 9 years old and has only one comment in all that time. Although the comment is favorable, that's hardly what I would call a large and happy current user base. On the flip side, I assume this is not very different from how {% url %} works, so maybe it can be hacked to do what I'm talking about?
I also looked at djangopackages, and the results were disappointing. Django-text looked promising, but the author wrote me that it is no longer in active development :-(
So, all you experts out there, how do you solve this problem? Thanks.
p.s. I am comfortable with html, but CSS and javascript, not so much. Doesn't mean I can't or won't learn if that's your go to option, I'm just letting you know where I am.
p.s.s. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
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