30 Oct 2005
Writebacks Are Formatted

I think I've finally figured out how to force Blosxom to format your comments correctly, without forcing you to enter HTML tags for paragraphs and line breaks... the <PRE> tag has more attributes and options than I realized. You can set a manual style within the tag, as well as a width. This allows the comments to pass through directly, with your formatting intact, and not make the whole page too wide to be displayed at a standard resolution. Nifty trick ... I've been writing HTML for years and I didn't know your could do that! Which is why I never bothered with <PRE> - who wants to see monospaced Courier text mucking up the look of their carefully crafted page?

This will also help me automate the posting process - although getting used to it may make me crazy for a while, as I'm so used to typing <P> and <BR>. We'll see how it works out.

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