Text reflow woes (or: I want bullets back!)y

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Sean Conner once stated:
> 
>   How do I write my blog entries?  I use my regular editor and I've adopted
> a style a few years ago where I write ... not exactly a sentance per line,
> but a thought per line.  Okay, an example from a previous post [4]:

  This footnote [4] should have pointed to here:

		http://boston.conma.norg/2020/01/13.1

>   Web browsers don't care about the raw formatting---they reflow it, with
> styling coming from HTML and CSS.  And the reason I keep it very ragged like
> that is to make it easier to move sentances and fragments about when editing
> the entry.  I also run the entry through a processing script to convert some
> shortcuts, like turning `` into “ or "1^st" into "1<sup>ST</sup>" [4] or
> even pulling out image sizes for the <IMG> tag.

  And this footnote [4] should have been footnote [5].  I got distracted
when writing the email.

  -spc

> [5]	Yes, I have a type of markup I use, but it's totally custom to me
> 	and how I write entries, but it does quite a bit.  Here's a sample
> 	that includes all the features (I think I keep this up to date):
> 
> 		https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog/blob/master/NOTES/testmsg
> 
> 	And the script I use:
> 
> 		https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog/blob/master/Lua/format.lua