Default text formatting in Communicate Field

Hi there

Is there a way to set the default text formatting in the Communicate Field? I want to set it to Xhtml by default.

It’s possible to set the default Email Formatting and Word-Wrapping in the Admin/Systems Preferences section, but I can’t find a way to change the text formatting.

Also I like the simple style formatting bar on this ‘Topic Post’ page - it’s much nicer than Tiny MCE or FCKEditor. Is it available as an extension or plugin?

Anyone out there help me?

Cheers

Oliver