formatting a poem
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I tried copying from word, copying from another site, and making indentations with my space bar. I loose the indentations no matter what I do. I have a WordPress book that shows a Word button, but I only see the “T” for plain text. Help!
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If you are copying and pasting from a word processing document like Microsoft WORD note that the pasts as WORD button was removed months ago. If you use the Paste as text button then a special cleanup process will run to remove any special formatting and HTML tags that may otherwise change your text.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-textWhether or not you are copying and pasting go to > Dashboard > Settings > Writing and enable this setting:
Formatting
__ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
“save changes”Blog editors and word processors are not the same and do not work the same way. The web standard is one blank line only, so you cannot add more blank lines by pressing return repeatedly like you would do with a typewriter or in a word processing application. If you want to learn how to format and space your posts and pages see: http://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/
P.S. When you create a new post, always make sure the Format tool is set to Paragraph before you start typing. It’s in the Visual editor Row 2 first position “style”. See the illustration here http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2 If you forget to do that then edit the post, highlight all in the Visual editor, select Paragraph from the Format tool, switch editor to Text then switch back to Visual and click Update.
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Thank you for your help. I did as you said. Unfortunately, when I hit update I lost the indentations again. I even tried pasting into the text instead of visual tab. Do you have any idea why this wasn’t effective?
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I tried copying from word, copying from another site, and making indentations with my space bar.
You can paste in previously formatted text as long as you’re pasting into the editor in text mode. Spacebar won’t do the trick. Have you tried using the “indent” tab in the second row of tab (icons) in the Visual Editor admin toolbar?
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Good addition. Visual editor Row 2
<a href=”Outdent – move text further left
Indent – move text further right”>icon 8 Outdent – move text further left
icon 9 Indent – move text further right -
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Thank you again. The icons to which you are referring move the entire poem left and right. I’m looking for a way to indent certain lines in the poem, indent even further other lines in the poem, and leave some lines at the left margin. Any further ideas would be appreciated.
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Thank you. I was successful with putting in the code for each line. I experimented with code for indenting the first line of each paragraph and this did not work for me. I typed in the long code and when I updated it changed to </div> and changed nothing. Line by line was time consuming so I googled and found you had poem formatting as a plug-in but it wasn’t necessarily compatible with the latest wordpress. I don’t yet know about plug-ins or how to make a style sheet. Could you send a link on these too? If you are willing an explanation would be helpful also. Thanks.
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There is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on any free hosted WordPress.com blogs and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/If you want FTP access and to install plugins or third party themes into a site then you will have to hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and set up your own WordPress.org install.
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