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My tattoo is going to be set in Futura, League Gothic, and something scripty #permanenttype

BadRobot! http://t.co/C3ifrkI #movabletype #robots_txt

Grotesk, meaning "beautiful": http://t.co/WkCgpjf #type

TypePad ships ActivityStreams for all TypePad users! http://bit.ly/bOFnIC (via @chrismessina #goteam #typepad #sixapart

demoing mt-mode at work today http://bit.ly/bXR77o #emacs #movabletype #perl

mt-mode updated: http://github.com/sivy/sivy-emacs-toys #emacs #movabletype #perl

mt-mode gains mt-run-test http://bit.ly/9pyEqZ #emacs #movabletype

a good start: mt-mode http://github.com/sivy/sivy-emacs-toys #emacs #movabletype

Neat. Agile Web Solutions (of 1Password fame) runs their blog on TypePad! http://bit.ly/7q2AKr #typepad /cc @sixapart

Getting Jodi setup on TypePad. I think Micro is going to be a good fit for those times when staring at an empty blog post form is just too much #micro #typepad

I recently found a solution to a problem that had been bugging me for some time.

Conversant has this really cool email gateway - all posts to this site go out to anyone who is subscribed to the site and has the list feature turned on.

So, when I write a post like this one, the post goes out over email, and the <blockquote> tags are stripped. How do my subscribers know where the quote is?

To the rescue: Conversant&#39;s text resources. A resource is like a Manila/Radio shortcut: it&#39;s a defined piece of text that gets replaced with something else when the content gets rendered. Resources are most often used for links and images, but Conversant has a powerful resource type called a Text Resource.

A text resource can have anything in it - html, text, and Conversant template macros. So I essentially write my own no-arg macro called&#39;quote&#39;:

<-#if condition="ioInterface&#39;email&#39;"-->
----- quote --<-#else--><blockquote><-#endif-->

If the post is being rendered for email, it inserts the "----quote----" text, otherwise it renders the blockquote tag. A partner resource called&#39;endquote&#39; inserts "------" or the closing blockquote tag.

Now, when excerpting text, I start the excerpt with |quote| and close it with |endquote|, and it gets rendered legibly both on the site and in the list email.