Crossposting Autoformat Annoyances

[emceeaich]

If you are a pedant like me, you probably write your posts in raw HTML, and check Disable Auto-Formatting in the editor.

Unfortunately, when you crosspost the entry to a LJ-based site, the markup:

<p>paragraph one</p>
<p>paragraph two</p>

shows up as:

<p>paragraph one</p><br><p>paragraph two</p>

Because, most likely by default, the auto-formatter is handling the inbound post.

I've opened Bug 904 to see about addressing this on the DW side, however, there is a workaround:

If you are writing markup for your posts, before you save, remove the carriage returns between block-level elements (p, blockquote, div, etc..)

Then the auto-formatter won't try to insert <br> between then.

Comments

lj-raw

[pne]

Why not wrap the entire post in <lj-raw>...</lj-raw>? That should get ignored with "Disable Auto-Formatting" on here, and should make Do The Right Thing on the other end of the cross-post (e.g. LiveJournal).

Seems easier to insert one pair of tags than to remove every newline between block-level elements (which could be any number of them).

Re: lj-raw

[zvi]

Er, the LJ tags are being stripped by the crossposter at the mo, so it wouldn't work.

Re: lj-raw

[pne]

Ah, oops. Thanks for the correction.

Re: lj-raw

[emceeaich]

I did not think to try lj-raw, but I see what you mean.