Re: HTML export and blogging to blogger.com

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

I found this in the manual.  Does anybody know whether this is
relevant to the problem?

     \n:        turn on/off line-break-preservation (DOES NOT WORK)

Thanks.


Samuel

On 2010-11-13, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I spoke too soon.  I don't have a solution.  Here is
> what I tried.
>
>
>   1) org source (my normally-preferred filled paragraphs) ->
>      c-u c-c c-e R -> blogger
>      - hard breaks are inserted so no filling can happen in
>        published blog entry
>        + if large fonts and small column, will break
>          awkwardly
>      - blogger result attached
>   2) Unfill-region (my code below) -> c-u c-c c-e R -> blogger
>      - paragraphs are separated by too many blank lines
>      - an extra closing div if top headline not included
>        (not really a problem)
>      - unfill-region doesn't actually catch all paragraphs
>        so you have to manually unfill some
>   3) Unfill-region (my code below) -> manually deleting
>      space between paragraphs -> c-u c-c c-e R -> blogger
>      - no paragraph separation
>   4) John's recipe: c-u c-c c-e R -> perl script -> blogger
>      - paragraphs are separated by too many blank lines
>      - blogger result attached
>
>
> (defun alpha-unfill-region-or-paragraph ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((fill-column (point-max)))
>     (alpha-fill-region-or-paragraph)))
> (defun alpha-fill-region-or-paragraph ()
>   (interactive)
>   (if (hoka-org-region-active-p)
>       (call-interactively #'fill-region)
>     (fill-paragraph nil)))
>
>
> John's recipe (I shortcutted with c-u m-|):
>
>   1) Write some stuff
>   2) Select it (move to beginning of what you want, C-space,
>      move to end of what you want)
>   3) C-u C-c C-e R to export that region with no preamble to
>      a separate buffer
>   4) C-x C-w export.txt
>   5) to terminal: perl -pi -e ' s/\R/ /g; s/\<p\>//g;
> s/\<\/p\>/\n\n/g;' export.txt
>   6) back to emacs: C-x C-f export.txt; type "yes"
>   7) M-< to go to front of buffer, C-space, M-> to go to
>      end, M-w to copy
>   8) Paste into basic blogger edit box
>   9) Done
>
> Org source is attached.
>


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