Source code highlighting

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  engraver · Member · Aug 27, 2011 at 12:07 pm

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  When I use construction like
  [sourcecode language="..."]
...
[/sourcecode]
  switching from HTML view to Visual and back adds tags < br / > to every code line. Also when [sourcecode] pair is wrote in HTML, in Visual input window it transforms text style to preformatted. Can it be solved simply?

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  engraver · Member · Aug 27, 2011 at 12:09 pm

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  Oh, yeas, my blog address http://engraver.wordpress.com

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Aug 27, 2011 at 7:57 pm

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  We’ll look into that. For now, I recommend entering your source code stuff last in the HTML editor tab, then publish before switching back to the Visual tab.

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  engraver · Member · Aug 27, 2011 at 7:59 pm

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  Ok, thank you.

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  fabiomarini · Member · Sep 6, 2011 at 9:26 pm

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  Hello, I’m having a similar problem…

  I’m using [sourcecode lang="xml"] in the HTML editor. When I switch to the Visual editor, the XML has disappeared (only the [sourcecode] tags are left in a grey box). If I switch back to the HTML editor, the XML is lost.

  Any ideas when this will be fixed?

  Thanks,
  Fabio

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 6, 2011 at 9:45 pm

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  We don’t really have an ETA yet. The problem appears to be with TinyMCE, which is the third-party tool that we use for our visual editor, and we unfortunately don’t have much control over that when it comes to how it “fixes” source code.