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                  Ideas for features for my blogging software
                                        
> The goal last time was a macro processor. I write a lot of math articles. I
> get tired of writing <sup>2</sup> every time I want a superscript 2. Even
> if I bind a function key to that sequence of characters, it's hard to read.
> But now, with my new Blosxom macro processor, I just insert a line into my
> article that says:
> 
> -----[ C ]-----
> #define ^2 <sup>2</sup>
> -----[ END OF LINE ]-----
> 
> and for the rest of the article, ^2 is expanded to <sup>2</sup>.
> 

“The world's worst macro preprocessor [1]”

This is, without a doubt, an incredible idea and one I wish I had thought of.
I already use shortcuts like this, such as “---” for “—” (an em-dash) or “``”
for the nice open double quote that are “baked” into the code so to speak,
but the ability to add more on a per-entry basis would be very neat indeed.

I'll have to look into this a bit more.

[1] http://www.plover.com/blog/prog/blosxom-macros.html

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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