You have got to be kidding me.
I noticed a little extra space on my previous post at the top of a quote I pulled out of SPECTRAL IRON. I wanted to cut it out, so I went to Ecto, my blog client, and switched to its HTML mode. This is what I found embedded in my document as a result of the cut and paste – three hundred and thirty five lines of hidden goop, which looks like it came from Microsoft Word:
<p><!–[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:DocumentProperties>
<o:Revision>0</o:Revision>
<o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime>
<o:Pages>1</o:Pages>
<o:Words>172</o:Words>
<o:Characters>779</o:Characters>
<o:Company>Mythologix Press</o:Company>
…. hundreds of lines deleted …
mso-style-parent:””;
mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin:0in;
mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:”Boldface PS”,”serif”;}
</style>
<![endif]–>
<!–StartFragment–></p>
Charming! Feel like dieting much, Word? Axually, it looks like this may be part of a strategy to ensure formatted cut and paste works in Word and other programs, probably just interacting badly with Ecto.
S’ok, Word. We love you anyway, just the way you are.
-the Centaur
P.S. Pro tip: Option-Command-V pastes unformatted in Ecto.\
