I must apologize to my blogger readers for the dreadful formatting errors that plague my posts.
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Actually, I'm not really apologizing, but cursing blogger for many of its infuriating mannerisms and its interfering "templates."
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I prepare my contributions with care, then run them through some transformations to make Blogger happy, mainly converting all "left-bracket-p-right-brackets" and "left-bracket-/p-right-brackets" to newlines. That's where the trouble appears. These appear in four different ways: As newlines in the "edit html" portion of the blogger editor; as paragraph boundaries in "Compose"; as paragraph boundaries in "Preview"; and as nothing at all in the actual blog, which comes out as one gigantic paragraph.
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My latest theory is that this has something to do with the many different newline formats in the world, but my attempts to toss extra control-Ms and control-Js into what I paste into Blogger have led nowhere.
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If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them. Perhaps if I find a cure I can go back and make all my previous postings look readable.
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P.S. The plot has thickened. This post looked just fine until I put in some explicit html character entities (you know, the things with ampersands, like the thing you have to type to get an ampersand; I can't actually type one at this point for fear my computer will melt down). Even when I removed the entities, yielding the "left-bracket-right-bracket" crap a few paragraphs back, blogger remembered and refused to forgive me. So now this post has double-vertical-bars wherever a paragraph boundary should be. But in "Compose" and "Preview" the boundaries are right where they should be.
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