I use Radio to edit my weblog. I used Frontier back just before it went commercial again, and I'm used to it. I like the power.

But today I discovered something interesting: it does paragraph tags horribly. (Actually, Daniel Jalkut discovered it for me. Thanks Daniel!)

Most of the time I write posts in MarsEdit and send them to Radio. I don't put any paragraph tags in, because I know that Radio will insert them for me. So I'll just type along, using only white-space to separate paragraphs.

Radio will put <p> tags after every paragraph. Which is odd HTML (paragraphs should start with <p> and end with </p>, but it kinda works.

Except, apparently, either in RSS in general or in some news aggregators (with my sample size of one news aggregator: NetNewsWire) this odd HTML doesn't work. For example, viewing my feed in NetNewsWire you'll notice that paragraphs seemed to run together.

Hello Bug!

This bug happens with posts generated in Radio's Built-in editor (or, more properly, the web page served by Radio so I can create/edit posts) as well as posting via MarsEdit. My previous post on this site was created in that manner.

As another point of reference: I write the exact same way for my company blog - using MarsEdit, whitespace to delimit paragraphs, etc. Wordpress turns out proper paragraph tagging - <p> and end with </p> - and everything comes out just fine.

So I guess I'm going to be using MarsEdit's Add Paragraph Tags script when I'm writing my blog posts for now on. Or tear into Radio and figure out what's wrong and where to change whatever magic to fix the stupid paragraph behavior (and I have too little time for that). I wouldn't be opposed to LazyWeb help though

I've "fixed" the last 4 or 5 entries in this site to have proper paragraph tags - the RSS feed should slowly push the old, improperly paragraph tagged posts off the feed as I make more posts.

Each sentence is a paragraph.

I created this post in Radio's web form interface.

Do we have paragraphs in our RSS feed, or do we look like raving ranters?