How to create "new post" in the new format of Blogger

      The new format of the "Blogger" has been activated in which the arrangements and views have been changed a little. Even if you revert to the old style you will have to use the newer one after about a month. One important change I noticed in it that the "create new post" button has been removed from the top left corner. In fact, it has been moved to the right bottom corner with a '+' button on an orange disc.

Orange disc with '+' sign

      It is similar to the compose button of Gmail. Please see the picture here. 

   To create a new post, hover the arrow over this button (On laptop). You will see the popo-up information of the button as "create new post".

Create New Post

Now you have got it. Click this button and a new blank post will be opened with editing tools.

How to type superscript and subscript in Blogger?

         Blogger is an excellent platform to express your views and explain something. For simple writing, it has many tools like Microsoft word document but not all of it. One of such lacking feature is superscript and subscript. While in the Microsoft word you can switch to these two styles with a simple click of a button in the upper toolbar, here in the Blogger you have limited choice. What do you do here? ----

1. you click a button resembling an emoji - smiley.

Click this button to open a small window for special characters

2. It opens a small window where you find a lot of special characters. You search them either by typing or by drawing a shape.

A limited number of characters in the superscript/subscript

3. For superscript - type "superscript" in the search box of this small window and you will see a list of superscript characters. You will see digits and some alphabets. If the desired character is here, click it and it will appear on the "edit blog post" at the place where the cursor is.

4. The same is the process for subscript.

         So far so good but there are many characters that you want to write as superscript or subscript but can not find them here. It will be a problem if you want to explain something in mathematics or physics. Not only characters but sometimes we need to write a word or a short sentence as superscript or subscript. For this, you have to know some hacks that I will explain to you here.

     See below the title of your blog on the desktop. There are two buttons "compose" and "HTML" side by side. (Edit: in the new format of the blogger, you will see these two buttons on a dropdown list when clicked on a pencil icon on leftmost side of the editing toolbar) By default, the edit page in the blog opens in Compose mode where we compose our blog. It is easier to type here and see how our blog should be. But it is the simplified version for the users because the real language that computer understands is something else that appears in the HTML button mode. Whatever we type is converted by some software in a language that the computer understands. It looks like junk to us. You can easily see this by clicking the HTML button. But this button showing the HTML version is very useful to do things that are very difficult in Compose mode.

         As we need to write some letters, words, or sentences as superscript or subscript, first type it as usual in Compose mode. Now go to the HTML mode and search for those typed words. This searching is the most difficult part of our job because you will notice more special characters and parentheses than your literature. But with some labor, you can search for it as the literature will be arranged at the same place. You mentally mark the portion that you want as superscript or subscript. For the superscript type ^{just before that portion and type} just after that portion. These are called tags. Similarly for the subscript type _{just before that portion and type} just after that portion. These should be done exactly as said because these words say to the computer from where to start superscript/subscript and where to end. Any deviation or difference in typing these words will result in an error. Once you do it click the Compose button. You will find the desired result appearing here in the post.
      For example, I type Pexternal. I want "external" as superscript. Under the HTML button, I search for Pexternal.↓

Search the desired words

      Now type ^{just before external in it and} just after it.↓

Typing should be exact

Now click the Compose button and your typing will get changed as desired, see below.

P^external

Was the lockdown announced by PM necessary for checking COVID-19? क्या लॉकडाउन जरुरी था?

#PM #MODI

       Many people have doubts about the lockdown because it was imposed in the beginning when the cases were few but now the cases have grown manyfold but the lock-down is being withdrawn slowly. So they ask a question - "Was the lock-down necessary?" Let us discuss this. 

      The first thing is that the COVID-19 virus started in Wuhan, China. It was growing as a pandemic and not much was known about it. China tried to hide it initially and did not share much about it. When it came to the knowledge of the world we knew that it spreads through proximity to the affected person and China controlled it through social distancing, masks and lockdown. So it was the best measure to check the spread of disease geometrically. It also gave time to understand its nature through scientific research and happenings in other affected countries. 

         The second thing is that after a month-long lockdown the daily earning people and laborers lost the source of income. A huge number of these people began to return their homes on foot from the cities. Due to the transport ban, factories shut down and general lockdown the economy was getting affected badly. So the lockdown was not to stay endless.  

           Third, the government had to keep the balance between lockdown and economy. So after keeping an eye on the occurrence of the cases and wide surveys it was decided to loosen the unaffected areas and close the local containment zones. Thus the economy could revive and at the same time, COVID-19 cases could be contained.

          With time it was found that the virus was getting weak slowly in India or we had a bit better immunity as the recovery rates increase. Also, with boosting immunity the virus could be kept away. To emphasize it PM himself talked to the nation and told the steps to be taken to boost immunity. After WHO said that this virus was to stay for a few years and we will have to learn live with it, there was no option but to "Unlock" that is lifting the bans of lockdown slowly. Major bans remaining the places of mass gathering like movie halls, festivals, processions, public transport, schools, colleges, etc.

        The government has done a lot to make people aware of the dangers and preventions of the virus. As to date, no vaccine is available or no medicine is 100% cure for it the best way is prevention. The government has done its duty now people have to play their part.

       So what the lockdown announced by PM did? The answer is clear. The best thing it did is that it made people aware of the dangers of the COVID-19 virus and its prevention by social distancing, masks, handwashing and sanitizers. PM himself addressing the nation about the virus and giving instructions is such a big thing that no amount of advertisement or awareness program could have achieved it. 

       So let us take the responsibility to check this disease as a citizen and serve humanity.

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Giloy is said to improve immunity in a traditional ayurvedic way.