Formatting a poem post: How do I indent a line?
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How do I indent the last line of each stanza in my latest post Rain Story? Every time I tap save draft, preview, or publish, the draft page resets and irons out the indenting, flushing the poem to the left. I tried everything, importing the poem with the desired indentation from an Office document and G Edit page, to no avail. And the indent button in the kitchen sink indents the ENTIRE stanza, not just the 3rd lines.
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Writing and Formatting Poetry http://en.support.wordpress.com/writing-and-formatting-poetry/
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Yes. But there are two icons in Row 2 Visual editor:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2icon 5 T – paste as plain text
icon 6 W – Paste from Word
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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 are working in the Visual editor, to get single spacing between paragraphs hold the SHIFT key down and simultaneously click ENTER at the end of the paragraph.
If you are working in the HTML (Text) editor, a single click of ENTER will give you a single-spaced line, and two clicks of ENTER will result in double spaced lines. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/09/13/wordpress-formatting-and-spacing/
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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I’ll be consulting this as needed. Thank you much, TT. I trust your blog is going well. I appreciate your time.
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You’re welcome. Yes, my blog is going well as I have the best followers and commenters ever. Best wishes with yours.
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For the exact answer to your original question, see here, under “Single line indents”:
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