Make it so you can edit your Blog Posts

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The discussion centers on the desire for an editing feature for blog posts, particularly to accommodate detailed content that may not spark extensive discussion. Users appreciate the platform's technical audience and LaTeX support but face issues with the preview function not rendering formulas correctly. One participant suggests using the preview feature from the reply page, but this does not resolve the LaTeX rendering issue for blog posts. Another user mentions setting up a personal wiki as a potential workaround for testing content before posting. The overall consensus highlights the need for improved editing capabilities in the blog section.
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I like the idea of having Blog's here because there is a technically astute audience and it has built in support for latex. I would like it so I could put more detailed posts which are less conducive to discussion in the blog section well more general discussion could take place on these forums (perhaps with some reference to the details which were outlined in the blog post). I tried using the blog features, and the preview button wasn't rendering the formula's correctly and once I posted I was not able to edit my post. Would it be possible to get built in support for editing blog posts any time soon?
 
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John Creighto said:
I tried using the blog features, and the preview button wasn't rendering the formula's correctly …

Hi John Creighto! :smile:

Just use the preview facility on the Reply page of any thread, before finally pasting into the blog. :wink:
 


tiny-tim said:
Hi John Creighto! :smile:

Just use the preview facility on the Reply page of any thread, before finally pasting into the blog. :wink:

That didn't work for me because the latex was getting rendered to equations I previously typed on this form and not the ones I was putting in my blog posts. Anyway, I'm settng up my own personal wiki so maybe that would be a good place to sandbox before posting to the blog.
 
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