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When using the sourcecode tag with live writer, the code gets reformatted. Not sure if it's an issue with Live Writer though.
In live writer, I create a test blog with the following text:
[sourcecode language='csharp']
int i = 0;
[/sourcecode]
When I post it (as a draft), I get the following text:
[sourcecode language='csharp']</p> <p>int i = 0;</p> <p>[/sourcecode]
Is this something that can be fixed?
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the only workaround, currently known to me, is to switch into 'HTML view' and paste your code into desirable place.
to PREserve indents, you may definitely want to wrap a whole snippet, including .com [sourcecode] tags, into PRE element tags.
There's a great plug-in for Live Writer (that I use) that copies code from Visual Studio and uses your own coloring and highlighted from VS.
homepage:
http://11011.net/software/vspaste
download:
http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=d8835a5e-28da-4242-82eb-e1a006b083b9&l=8
The downside is that it embeds the HTML coloring styles into your HTML code, so you lose a little bit if you ever want to scale up to your own blog and use a better WP plug-in.
btw, regarding WLW plugins. there's another great one from Joe Cheng, a software developer on the WLW team.
http://jcheng.wordpress.com/category/windows-live-writer/dynamic-template/
I imagine there will be no hassle (just a couple of clicks) to make a dynamic-template, which would sourcecodify (well, rather HTMLize in fact) a code snippet in the way I suggested above, utilizing .com [sourcecode] tags.
so, later when you'll want to use a better WP (or whatever better) plug-in, all you will need is just to grep '[sourcecode]' pairs from WXR file, and your code will be clean (from the messy spans) *and* formatted (preserved indents) as well.
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