Posting to MT 3.2 with ecto for Windows

by neville on September 2, 2005

in Movable Type, Software

First post to this MT 3.2 blog using the ecto for Windows offline editor, version 1.7.8.

Adding this MT blog to ecto as a new profile was very simple and the profile wizard worked just fine. So I’m pleased that the setup was so straightforward.

If this post works, then I have my preferred option up and running of writing posts offline and then publishing.

The only little glitch I can see is with ecto - in the create new post window, it doesn’t offer a line break option in the formatting drop-down list, just ‘none.’ So I have to manually add the paragraph tags to get paragraph breaks.

I had exactly the same behaviour when I installed this version to use with my TypePad blogs. But, somehow, the line break option eventually appeared. So maybe this will eventually happen here as well.

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