Radical Atheist is proud to be a part of the Planet Atheism blog family. If you would enjoy reading a variety of blogs from atheists with a wide range of interests, I'd encourage you to add Planet Atheism to your RSS reader.
I do have one concern about the way this blogs usually appears in the aggregate; it rarely reproduces my line breaks, so my posts appear to run together in one long paragraph. Looking at the source post, one can see this is not how I intend it to appear.
I'm using Movable Type as the platform for this blog, and I wonder if the problem isn't with the way MT encodes my post. Sadly, MT does not have an option to post in HTML. It's interface is all WYSIWYG. This hasn't concerned me before since the output to my blog has always looked OK. But if it's going to be so difficult to read on Planet Atheism, I want to find a fix.
Any suggestions would be deeply appreciated. Whether you agree with what I write or not, you should at least be able to clearly read what I've written.
Comments (2)
Hello,
I wish I could help about the line breaks problem, but I don't use MT myself, so I don't know if there's a simple way around it.
From what I see from your feed's source, the posts include line breaks, but since they're HTML, the breaks are ignored by any reader. I looked at a feed from another MT blog (the official MT blog, in fact, which uses MT 4.x) and that one does include paragraph tags in the posts ("p" tags), unlike yours. I don't know whether that comes from the different MT version, or is a configurable option.
Pedro
Posted by Pedro Timóteo | October 15, 2007 2:46 AM
Posted on October 15, 2007 02:46
> Sadly, MT does not have an option to post in HTML. It's interface is all WYSIWYG.
This isn't true of MT. The version you have listed in your sidebar here (3.32) never had a WYSIWYG option much to the chagrin of many users. You can use any of a number of text formatting plugins or select none. By default MT 3 uses the built in Converts Breaks formatter. Does your new/edit entry screen have a Text Formatting pull down? If not click the "Customize the display of this page." link and check Text Formatting. Once saved you can switch to "None" that will allow for you to enter HTML to your hearts desire.
MT4 is a bit different. The default option is Rich Text and the WYSIWYG toolbar is always present; however, you can select None and enter HTML. You can also use Rich Text and switch to source view and edit the markup directly. Admittedly the WYSIWYG editor isn't so hot in that it produce some rather ugly HTML. I've cleaned it up using source view, only to have to revert when I made one edit back in WYSIWYG mode.
Hope that helps.
BTW: Your TypeKey services aren't setup properly. When I click, login, agree to let you see my email address I get "The site you're trying to comment on has not signed up for this feature. Please inform the site owner." In my experience this is because you haven't registered (properly or at all) the URL your MT instance is running under. This was done to cap the usage of one token and stop someone from abusing the site and a grand scale.
Posted by Timothy Appnel | October 15, 2007 2:30 PM
Posted on October 15, 2007 14:30