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Posted by Chris:
Auto-magic formatting stopgap & a minor new feature

   Those powerblogs users who use the optional formatting option "Format
   HTML automagically" know that the magic involved was not very powerful
   magic -- it broke and left a post unformatted often enough to be
   annoying. I've been working on the second generation of auto-formatter
   which will be far smarter and more robust, but in the mean time on
   Eugene Volokh's suggestion I implemented a stop-gap which will add
   paragraph tags to everything separated by newlines. It's not ideal, of
   course, but it should really ameliorate the automagic formatter's
   failures. (Of course, this problem doesn't affect you if you're using
   the default "break at newlines" option.)

   I also introduced a minor feature in the editing window which can take
   ascii-formatted tabular data and put all of the appropriate HTML code
   around it to make it an HTML table. (One can then select the newly
   generated table and edit it with the table editor.)