Re: Slightly OT: in search of a new blogging platform

2015-03-07 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks, I've done that, years ago in fact. Like you, I was running into problems where punctuation matters (AppleScript and Xcode in my case). In fact, it struck me that the substitution I'd long since disabled on the Mac, and that I'm certain isn't happening in Mars Edit while I compose these p

Re: Slightly OT: in search of a new blogging platform

2015-03-07 Thread Tim Kilburn
Alex, Sorry, can only address the double-dash substitution. I’m not sure that this is actually a Word Press issue in that the MacOS does that sort of substitution by default and I found it extremely frustrating in Terminal until I figured out what was going on. You can turn off this substitut

Re: Slightly OT: in search of a new blogging platform

2015-03-07 Thread Alex Hall
Yes, sorry, I meant wordpress.com. I have two free blogs hosted there. > On Mar 7, 2015, at 5:20 PM, May wrote: > > I'm assuming you're talking about wordpress.com and not .org? I don't have > these problems. > > Wordpress.org you can get lots of the things you are looking for except for > you

Re: Slightly OT: in search of a new blogging platform

2015-03-07 Thread May
I'm assuming you're talking about wordpress.com and not .org? I don't have these problems. Wordpress.org you can get lots of the things you are looking for except for you would have to pay for your own domain name. May and LD Luna Moon! www.canadianlynx.ca > On Mar 7, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Alex Ha

Slightly OT: in search of a new blogging platform

2015-03-07 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I'm posting this in a couple places, so you may see it twice. I'm frustrated with Wordpress. Their mobile app is great, but their website is annoying with VO on the Mac. They claim to support Markdown, but don't return MD text when you go to edit, and suddenly my blog stopped interpretin