HTML / MMD compile issues

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I am trying to use Scrivener for blogging, but quickly giving up hope that this will work for blogging purposes on Windows (although I am quite frustrated with the compile feature as a whole as it never does what I expect it to for any output). It doesn’t seem to matter which options I set for HTML or MMD output, it is either giving me too much HTML tags (not sure where they are even coming from) or not giving me closing tags. No matter what options I select in compile it doesn’t change anything. I know the Windows version doesn’t work as well as Mac yet, is this one of the features that hasn’t been incorporated to the Windows platform?

What I expect to happen is a typical blog post, flush right, 1.5pts between sentences and a double space between paragraphs in either the font specified in the file (Georgia or Twentieth Century).

Here’s the HTML output – too many tags and spaces and exporting as Courier New despite the fact that the file is setup as Georgia and barring that default, it should be looking at the Stylesheet.ccs for formatting upon compile.

My Blank Page p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }

[/b]The blank page. There is something about the white clean slate of if all. There is no beginning or ending, no anger or happiness, just the possibilities.

What does one do with it, create from it?

A blank slate can be freeing, a rebirth, a new start.

It contains the fear of possibilities or endlessness.

I think people become too sedate and flow with the words from others. They let other people write on their blank page and because it has words on it they follow it like it was written in stone.

For years I fell into that trap. I would turn the page to stare at the whiteness of possibilities, but before I could put pen to paper, someone had written on it.

And here’s the MMD to HTML output, even though I attach a stylesheet it is not applying the style because it is not closing the paragraph tag until the last paragraph of the text.

The blank page. There is something about the white clean slate of if all. There is no beginning or ending, no anger or happiness, just the possibilities. What does one do with it, create from it? A blank slate can be freeing, a rebirth, a new start. It contains the fear of possibilities or endlessness. I think people become too sedate and flow with the words from others. They let other people write on their blank page and because it has words on it they follow it like it was written in stone. For years I fell into that trap. I would turn the page to stare at the whiteness of possibilities, but before I could put pen to paper, someone had written on it. My page filled with words and I followed it, believed in it, but

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It looks like there might be some BBcode in your second example, I’m assuming that’s not meant to be part of the example. What I do notice with it however is that the text you’ve pasted here would be considered one single paragraph by MMD. As with most plain-text markup systems, paragraphs are to be separated by a blank line. Since plain-text does not have formatting like paragraph spacing or indents, it is either that or a wall of unreadable text.

But yes, MMD is the best approach to for something like a blog, where the site style is going to be doing most of the work. For that you want HTML as clean and devoid of internal formatting as possible, and Scrivener’s RTF -> HTML converter is not designed for that kind of usage, it is better when you don’t have a site style and want things to look like they do in your PDF or RTF. It also, of course, requires a completely different writing style than MultiMarkdown, being RTF and not a plain-text system. For some people the writing approach will be more important than the cleanliness of the output.

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Perfect. I didn’t know about the blank line. That made it much easier and formatted perfectly in WP. Thanks so much AmberV.