Yes, private entries to copy and paste out of is really the best way, I think-- I used to do that on LJ back in the day, and it's a good way to make sure the formatting is all correct. That's my real hangup with the post by email thing-- I bet it would have just as much issue with correct formatting as all the Tumblr crossposts I've ever done.
I really wish I were more computer-programming-savvy-- last night I used the Everyone Is Doing It So Easy python script Tumblr exporter, and got such persistent errors I had to reluctantly rope in my long-suffering partner, who is by profession and 20 years' experience an actual software engineer with considerable Python experience, and somehow even though i'd only changed one variable I'd broken it so profoundly that he had to reset it and still wasn't able to get the functionality that all of the randos who'd reblogged the post with the script in it had managed to get. It's not that I'm bad with computers, it's that I have a particularly challenged interface with reality that doesn't mesh well with programming languages in general.
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I really wish I were more computer-programming-savvy-- last night I used the Everyone Is Doing It So Easy python script Tumblr exporter, and got such persistent errors I had to reluctantly rope in my long-suffering partner, who is by profession and 20 years' experience an actual software engineer with considerable Python experience, and somehow even though i'd only changed one variable I'd broken it so profoundly that he had to reset it and still wasn't able to get the functionality that all of the randos who'd reblogged the post with the script in it had managed to get.
It's not that I'm bad with computers, it's that I have a particularly challenged interface with reality that doesn't mesh well with programming languages in general.