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Nothing impressive here, but, all the same:
I was writing my grand opus explaining to an interested non-unix user
all the hateful things about GNU Texinfo, the lack of manpages, botched
Debian manpages, incorrectly installed Debian Texinfo pages, idiocies of
the info tool, and so on, in response to a question he asked about my
post to this list. It was pretty good.
(Okay, I didn't say _all_ hateful things about those topics, but I
covered about 12 different awful things in there.)
While working on the text, adding subheadings, providing links and
references, and so forth, I would repeatedly use the provided
[Preview this post]
button, and livejournal would dutifully render the post according to its
html limitations, and so forth, allowing me to determine that the html I
was hand-entering was at least close to correct.
Only after previewing the post a good fourteen or so times, cleaning it
up iteratively, and after I went to post it, did it let me know,
helpfully.
"Sorry, LiveJournal comments have a limit of 4300 characters, your 8934
character post that we've been previewing for you without complaint for
the last 15 minutes will have to now be manually chopped into pieces by
you and a text editor and copy and paste."
Thanks.
-josh
(Oh, and before you point it out, yes, I know I'm asking for it by using
LiveJournal, but I'm also asking for it by using the web, and by using
a computer at all. Ever.)
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