double spacing

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  lttopp · Member · Sep 23, 2008 at 3:43 pm

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  Hi all-

  I’m new to WordPress, not savvy with html, and just starting to type my first post. Perhaps no one else has found issue with this, but I would like to be able to press “enter/return” and have the cursor skip down one line instead of 2. Or, at the very least, I would like to just be able to make this decision on my own at the appropriate times, instead of having it preformatted for me all the time. Does anyone know how to turn off the double spacing? I can copy/paste an html if that’s what it takes.

  For example:

  No Double Spacing:
  A Case for Single Spaces

  NOT–

  No Double Spacing:

  A Case for Single Spaces

  Thanks,
  lttopp

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 23, 2008 at 4:10 pm

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  Press shift-return for a single break (no blank line in between).

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  lttopp · Member · Sep 23, 2008 at 4:17 pm

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  Oh thank you so much. I hope all of my inevitable questions have answers this easy.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 23, 2008 at 6:25 pm

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  You’re very welcome, and hopefully they do.

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  noisound · Member · Oct 16, 2008 at 1:37 pm

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  is there a way to have x4 spacing ? each time i want more space in my posts they automatically get formatted to x2 spacing ! like wordpress.com just has to make everything tidy =[

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Oct 16, 2008 at 8:21 pm

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  For a blank line you use this (in the html post or page editor):
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  To increase the leading (space between lines) you use this code:
  <span style="line-height:1.8;">YOUR_TEXT_HERE</span>
  (1.8 is an example – can be any number.)