John McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > I must be missing something here ... if I write a document in Writer > and then copy and paste it into my WordPress blog using Firefox, it > does a remarkably good job of preserving the formatting etc... > > Why would I want anything more than this? > > I don't know about you, but there were four reasons I wanted somethign different 1) smart quotes, em dashes and so on. I write in OOo with all sorts of autocorrect features turned on. MT doesn't understand many of them, and in any case has its own mechanisms for producing such thins -- I use the textile formatting system. So I had to have one macro anyway to clean up stuff which would show up ugly in HTML 2) paragraph breaks. Blogs often, and textile always, expect two returns before they will spit out a <p> tag. I use styles that give ma a comfortable break between paragraphs for one return. The preprocessing macro deals with that. 3) Saving as OOo html is a horrible disaster. I hate writing in text boxes, too. 4) nerdishness. Since I had to write the preprocessor macro anyway, in order to preserve the formatting ad links I wanted, it didn't look like too much work to add in the bit to post the clean text so there was only one button to press. -- Andrew Brown The email in the header does not work. Contact details and possibly useful macros from http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
