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Hi Daniel -- thanks for the lovely product. I've tried to post Markdown-formatted post to Blogger, shows only as raw; probably Blogger doesn't support Markdown itself, but does MarsEdit transform it into HTML before sending and upon receiving, or only shows preview? I saw some old threads on having a script transform Markdown to HTML for uploading -- do I still need it for Blogger, and if so, then how?
Cheers,
Alexy
Hi Alexy, MarsEdit doesn't currently convert content before sending it to a server. It expects the server to handle this, so as you've discovered since Blogger doesn't support Markdown, it's not very well suited for Markdown support in MarsEdit.
It's on my TODO list to add a mechanism for automatically converting before sending to the server. This would be useful for situations like this.
In the mean time, yeah, if you want to use Markdown with Blogger you'll have to come up with some script to do it. I don't have a ready-made script to recommend. Maybe another user will point to one that is working for them?
Thanks for dropping in,
Daniel
Hi Daniel,
First of all: thanks, too, for a great little piece of software!
I, too, would like a 'render on post' feature, since wordpress.com also doesn't support Markdown anymore. Until you get round to implementing it, I'll be using a workaround that involves round-tripping via BBEdit, which I describe in detail here:
http://lidlesseye.wordpress.com/2009/05 … -tripping/
... But a 'native' version would be *far* preferable, since a lot of users may not have BBEdit, or the ability (or inclination) to round-trip their text; they just want to write their posts and get on with life.
Hi Alexy, MarsEdit doesn't currently convert content before sending it to a server. It expects the server to handle this, so as you've discovered since Blogger doesn't support Markdown, it's not very well suited for Markdown support in MarsEdit.
Thanks for dropping in,
Daniel
Daniel,
When I right-click on a blog in the Weblogs panel to "Edit Settings" for "Posting," I see a checkbox that says "Encode with HTML entities." What does that mean?
It means that lots of characters that would otherwise be legal UTF8 are instead encoded as entities. It's mainly useful for older blog systems that don't support UTF8 Unicode standard text.
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