Hold to get paragraphing to hold in visual mode?

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    rjohn · Member ·

    I am currently drafting a post in wordpress.com for my blog Textiles and Text.

    I am working in the visual mode and attempt to create paragraphs by pressing “enter” twice wherever I want a paragraph inserted.

    As I work, this seems to create paragraphs but when I save all the paragraphing is collapsed.

    I searched for a forum conversation and found one but it was confusing and seemed to suggest that paragraphs can only be entered while working in HTML and that the coding is something like <p> </p>

    Is there a convenient way I can insert paragraphs while working in the visual mode and have them hold?

    Thanks,

    R. John Howe
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    Blog url: http://rjohnhowe.wordpress.com/

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    rjohn · Member ·

    This must be, historically, one of the most frequent questions asked on wordpress and I did attempt to look around in the forum, but no one is responding and I really do need an answer.

    R. John Howe

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    Actually, line breaks are already paragraphs by hitting return just once.

    Are you trying to add more than a single blank line between paragraphs?

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    rjohn · Member ·

    No, I am not attempting to insert more than one blank line between paragraphs.

    My experience is that when I’m at the end of a paragraph and want to begin a new one, I press “enter.” This takes me to a new line (with no intervening blank line).

    Then to form the paragraph break I press “enter” again.

    This time the result appears as the desired blank line and I go on with the new paragraph.

    Problem: Whenever I save a draft, all the intervening blank lines between my paragraphs drop out.

    So what I need is a way to retain the paragraphs I think I am inserting after I save.

    Any further thoughts? (By the way, this seems to happen in some posts but not in others) It could be operator error, but I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.

    This has to be a very frequent experience and question.

    Thanks for your response,

    John

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    rjohn · Member ·

    A little more about my experience with paragraphing.

    I am currently working on two post, both in visual mode. I am inserting lots of images into these posts as well as passages of text using the “Word” insertion icon.

    In one these two posts I am experiencing the paragraphing problem I described above. But when I began the second post my paragraphing experience has been (so far) as you describe it (that is, a single press of enter creates a paragraph with a blank line in between.

    So there must be something I have done in the other post to get out of this default paragraphing mode. Any notion of what I might have done? What retrieve action should I take to put the paragraphs in the correct places in the problem post? Should I insert <p> </p) around desired paragraphs or is there an easier correction I can make.

    Thanks, again,

    John Howe

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    That’s definitely not working as designed.

    Can you please give me a link to a post with the problem so I can investigate?

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    rjohn · Member ·

    macmanx –

    Thanks for this further response.

    The post on which I’m having trouble with paragraphing is at this location:

    http://rjohnhowe.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=11321&action=edit

    The post on which the paragraphing function seems to be working (so far) as you describe it is at:

    http://rjohnhowe.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=11439&action=edit

    I’m actively working on this second post and will eventually have to do the needed editing on the first one but am not on it at the moment.

    Any help will be much appreciated. I have lots of time invested in these posts by the time they are ready for publication. So I need not to have all that effort spoiled by lack of paragraphing where that is needed.

    Thanks, again,

    John Howe

    (email visible only to moderators and staff)

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    The issue is all the div tags that were inserted into the post. Did you copy it from elsewhere?

    Basically, switch the HTML tab in the editor and remove any tag that looks like the following:

    <div> </div>

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    rjohn · Member ·

    Thanks for this advice.

    No, I composed this post entirely myself in wordpress. I do need to discover what I have done to create these div tags.

    As far as I know, the only text importing I did was of text from a PPT doc on my own machine. To do that I used the Word icon import mechansim assuming that PPT is a Microsoft application and that the Word mechanism was the correct one for stripping out any troublesome Microsoft codes.

    Is that not the case: How should I import text in the “notes” part of a Powerpoint slide and document?

    Really appreciate your sticking with me on this. Can’t believe it doesn’t happen a lot.

    John Howe

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    That would be the the problem. I don’t recommend copying from Microsoft documents, even with the special button. Microsoft Word (and in a small part PowerPoint) are word processors. They use proprietary information that we can’t account for when pasting.

    When it comes to copying from a Microsoft document, I high recommend just re-typing.

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