Code formatting messed up...

[Dieter]

(09-12-2018 07:31 PM)Jonathan Busby Wrote:  When I view this article which I wrote recently, some of the text in the code blocks was not formatted correctly, and I checked and there are no extraneous spaces or tabs. Also, Greek character alpha ( α ) is shown in bold in one of the code blocks.

The only alpha I see is not bold.
A look at the page's source code also shows no tags for bold text there.

Regarding the formatting and blanks: please note that the museum's editor uses a proportinal font, while the final result (when the article is displayed) is shown with a fixed width font. So the message editor is not "WYSIWYG"!. It's a good idea to prepare such code blocks in an external editor (that is set to a fixed-width font) and finally copy the code block from there into the museum's message editor. That's the way I do it.

By the way, you should start your code right after the intial [ code ] tag, and not in the next line. Otherwise the code block will start with a blank line, as shown in your post.

(09-12-2018 07:31 PM)Jonathan Busby Wrote:  In addition, when I try to add newlines between the elements in a bulleted list, they do nothing and the list's contents are stacked right on top of each other, which is quite ugly.

That's the way HTML works. ;-)
But there is a way:

• First
  Blablablabla....
   
• Second
  Blablablabla....
   
• Third
  Blablablabla....
  

The basic idea is not to have a completely blank line between the points but a "hard blank". For instance a non-breaking space: hold down the "Alt" key and type 0160 on the numeric keypad. Then release the Alt key. This inserts a non-breaking space.

Another hint: use the "Preview Post" button before posting a message. This will show you how the final result will look like. Don't press the "Post Reply" button until you're satisfied with the result.

Dieter