So I tried writing offline using MarsEdit in the previous post, I just now got around to posting and reviewing it.
Here is why, it does not seem to actually do any better of a job than writing in the text editor in terms of formatting and spacing. It seems to still have the same issues of the items not having the right line spacing. Also the image inclusion does not include SmugMug, it wants to upload an image to the server it does not seem to have an easy way to link to it. It also did not seem to allow the caching of Tags so that one does not create new ones unintentionally.
The other big one was that it did not let me open up a post and edit it easily. When I opened up the previous post the images looked like this:
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So I am thinking that I am still looking. Maybe it is not worth the work to find a replacement for just doing it as a text document.
Hi – this is the developer of MarsEdit. Thanks for giving it a try!
You make some good points. Sigh, that “garbage text” situation you show a picture of has been plaguing the app for a while now. I hate to pass the buck but I think it’s a bug in Mac OS X (I see a very similar problem in Xcode). It seemed to get a lot less common with one of the recent OS X upgrades, but unfortunately it does still strike from time to time.
Daniel
Hi Daniel-
Thanks for the response. I was just browsing the Red Sweater Forum looking for a solution to this problem. The fact that you found my post and responded is pretty impressive. I might give it a few more days before I decide if the edit text is a deal killer.
-=Brad