using code examples in blogger.com

Including code snippets is always a mess in blogger; here's what I've found by trial and error:

• Encode things with an HTML encoder such as this one. There's really no easy way to just paste what you want without this kind of preprocessing.
  

• I prefer to use <pre> for formatting because it won't wrap:

like this example that preserves display but goes off the end of our narrow little page very quickly

• Use <code> if you don't care that it wraps:

so here we have an example with the monospaced font, but it wraps to the next line as it gets to the end


• The <blockquote> will give you indentation, but usually that pushes you off the screen, so I wouldn't use it:

like this example that quickly spirals out of control and out of the short bounds we have in this thing....

• Don't even try to use <xmp> tags; they will get processed into mush when you jump back-and-forth from from 'Edit Html'.

such as this example using the &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;xmp&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; tag