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1. kfsone
   Member
   Apr 10, 2006, 11:01 PM

   I tend to include a lot of code fragments in my blogs, and I'm particular about the presentation. I finally managed to work out how to get the layout I wanted using a combination of blockquote and code.

   Alas, anything contained within

   has this very nasty habbit of losing formatting between edits. So, for instance, if I write:

   <br /> void<br /> function()<br /> {<br /> ..if ( something )<br /> ....indentedByFourSpaces();<br /> }<br />

   ("."s to represent spacing that I can't get the post editor to retain)

   it will look fine first time around. But if I am using save and continue editing, the formatting has now been deleted so that next time I save it, or if I come back and edit it later, it gets munged down to

   void
   function()
   {
   if ( something )
   indentedByFourSpaces() ; // LIES!
   }

   Is there:
   a) A way to prevent this formatting loss?
   b) A way to enable code and pre tags on the WYSIWYG editor, might make it a lot easier to figure this out.
   c) A way to get the code tag to include pre like code tags everywhere else in the universe? I feel dirty marking code up with pre instead of code.

2. drmike
   Member
   Apr 10, 2006, 11:08 PM

   - Turn off the WYSIWYG editor. You'll have better control over your code anyway.

   - Have you tried encoding your code?

3. kfsone
   Member
   Apr 10, 2006, 11:13 PM

   - Have you tried encoding your code?

   As GCC likes to say, "Insufficient context to resolve" :) Point me at an explanation or example and I'll figure it out.

   For now I'm going without the WYSIWYG editor, but that's kinda of a bummer, since the editor was one of the things that helped win me over vs staying at blogger ;) Whether I'm writing in C or English, I always need a preprocessor to catch my flurry of typos :)

4. options
   Member
   Apr 11, 2006, 1:15 AM

   where exactly "everywhere else in the universe" <code> includes <pre> and since when?

   beg devs they'd created a decent CSS style for code formatting...

   or use an off-line client to post -- no sweat to typeset smth like this.

   there's even a couple of themes (like BinaryMoon) that use an adequate eligible typeface (height) to render formatted code.

5. options
   Member
   Apr 11, 2006, 1:17 AM

   
   

6. generaldisarray
   Member
   Apr 11, 2006, 7:48 AM

   I've had the same problem. The best solution that I have found has been to replace the spaces with the non-breaking space entity (&nbsp). It's a pain, but it works.

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