#Mastodon #Composition

...I'm pretty sure, using #VisualBasic, it should be possible.

The #footnotes issue I described at the beginning of this thread is probably the most difficult part.

But leaving that point aside, it is simply capturing the length of the whole text, subtracting the length of the #hashtags, the heading, and the subtitle(s), as well as of the credits ("via/by...") from the 500 limit and then cutting the total blog texts in segments.

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#Mastodon #composition

"Next I past the whole post into a Mastodon compose field. Working by trial and error, I cut it down to <500 characters, breaking at a para-break and putting the rest on my clipboard. I post, reply, and add the next item in the thread until it's all done."

That's how I still do it, too.
However, IMO there are better ways to do this automatically.

If MS-Excel had bigger (rather unlimited) field lengths, I could program it myself...