I just figured out how to use the WordPress “sourcecode” formatting and applied it to my software-related posts. It produces much nicer results than the manual formatting I was using, mostly by preventing long lines from jamming into the right column.
The catch: WordPress imposes a round trip from my original text to the screen encoding and back, which sometimes randomly mangles special symbols. Angle brackets and double-quotes, in particular, take serious damage.
If you happen to remember a favorite chunk of code in a previous post, please take a look at it and see if I missed any of the obvious text-replacement errors. Trawling through the Software category should turn up most of the posts.
As is always the case with program listings, the errors will be really obvious to everyone except me.
Thanks…
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