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Blogo

Just did a copy and paste in Blogo and of the previous Blogo post and found that although I did a cmd A to select all the text when I pasted the text back into a new post window the paragraph after the picture (and the picture) were not pasted. Doing a paste into an external application did paste everything in (except the picture and the bulleted list was pasted but not visible). If you copy the raw HTML you can paste it back as long as you are in the HTML window. If you try and paste it into the normal editing window it tries to import the image. Their copy and paste really does have some issues!

MarsEdit

In MarsEdit there is no HTML editor as such but you can add HTML markup tags from the tool bar dropdown or from the context sensitive menu directly into your post. These show up in blue. All formatting is done this way so you do need to be comfortable with seeing markup tags in the editor. There are not that many tags provided as standard but you can easily add your own by selecting Edit.... from the Markup menu. I found that I had to add a couple of extra tags in order to be able to do bulleted lists (which in Blogo are provided by just clicking a button). Theses are the 2 tags that I had to add:

• ul tag to create the list
• li tag to create each item

It works.