Post to blogs

Thanks for testing, David, much appreciated! I’m glad everything seems to be working fine so far. I should be mostly okay for the majority of uses, and certainly for posting to blogs, as really it just uses Apple’s own exporter, as I say, but with some modifications to clean it up a little. But let me know if you test some more, as it’s all useful. Following on from this, I’m even thinking of adding a Copy as BBCode option! :slight_smile:

Thanks again and all the best,
Keith

Might I be so bold as to suggest another tweak for blog purposes? As long as there is an Edit Link'' box, could it also include Edit Text’'? There are apps with this feature, so I’m hoping it’s not a Herculean kind of programming task.

``Edit Link’’ in those apps offers two lines. One for the URL to which the link points, the other for the link text.

Revising often leads to make minor changes to those link-words – for example, if you decide a sentence is too long and need to replace the comma with a period. Or if you decide that instead of calling the linked page this here study'' you'd do better to call it this brilliant paper by Jane Doe.‘’ When ``Edit Link’’ only allows for editing the URL, then revising the linking text involves (1) changing the words in the main window and (2) selecting them again and (3) creating the link all over again. When a blog post is filled with links, those extra steps really slow down the process of revising, while raising the risk of mismatching text and URL.

The test module is still handling everything I can throw at it. Thanks again!

Best wishes,

David

Hmm, although I have overhauled that panel for the next version (the current one is just provided by the OS), it still only allows you to insert a link there. I’m not entirely sure what advantage is conferred by having the text in that panel, when you can edit it in the main editor (you don’t need to create the link again if you are just editing that text after all - if you select the text of the link and type over it, the link is retained - so if you are only editing the text, opening the sheet to do so would be an extra step).

All the best,
Keith

Hmm, I guess that’s so. Though in practice I often find when I am moving about the words of a link to edit, my actions are interpreted as a click and I suddenly find myself in the browser. I guess I like editing in a setup where there can’t be computer confusion about what the keyboard input means. But it’s also true the app I had in mind in my previous post, MacJournal, doesn’t permit editing of links as if they were any other kind of formatted text. So that guy kind of HAD to put in that sort of panel. You don’t.

Bottom line: when we get ``Copy as HTML’’ in the next version, I’ll be able to blog in Scrivener!

Again, many thanks.

David

Let me consider this as a future refinement post-2.0. It’s definitely not a bad idea, but I’m loathe to go back to that panel after refining it already, with so much else to do. The other main point is that currently you can select multiple ranges of text and apply a link to all of them in one go. There’s no way one text field in the links panel could work with that set up. (Even though it would probably rare for anyone to want to do this, the possibility is at least there.)
All the best,
Keith