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1. brucedawson
   Member
   Jan 12, 2012, 4:58 PM

   When I use [sourcecode] blocks on my wordpress.com blog they look reasonable, but when users try to copy the code (which is, after all, a big part of the purpose of putting code blocks on a blog entry) the text is mangled.

   http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/tricks-with-the-floating-point-format/

   The paste operation, whether to Visual Studio or to notepad, inserts five blank lines after each line of code. Double spacing would be bad enough, but sexta-spacing?

   This is annoying that it makes me want to not use the [sourcecode] tag. Is there any way of avoiding this problem?

   The blog I need help with is randomascii.wordpress.com.

2. timethief
   Member
   Jan 12, 2012, 5:06 PM

   I'm sorry that's happening to you. If this posting source code section is not helpful you will have to contact Staff for assistance.

3. panaghiotisadam
   Member
   Jan 12, 2012, 9:40 PM

   The HTML in these cases doesn't contain anything hidden from view, and what you're describing isn't happening when I copypaste from your examples or the relevant Support doc into TextEdit (on a Mac). Perhaps you need to adjust some setting or preference in the applications you're using.

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