Holding the Spacing Between Paragraphs

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    exotichippiequeen · Member ·

    I’m losing my mind! This is not my first time around writing on blogsites, yet I’m so annoyed looking at my posts and seeing all the spacing is screwed up between lines of verse. I have tried everything that I know of, such as clearing the format, choosing another style of print, inserting the spacing after the last character in a stanza, inserting spacing before the first character in the next stanza, everything. I’m just very unhappy with the way that my work looks, as the spacing is important. Many of my poems are just one long block of words with no spacing between sections of verse. Please help!

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    timethief · Member ·

    I recommend using the classic editor found at Dashboard > Posts > All Posts to create posts.
    http://exotichippiequeen.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

    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 editor, a single click of ENTER will give you a single-spaced line, and two clicks of ENTER will result in double spaced lines.

    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/

    If you are copying and pasting from a word processing document like Microsoft WORD note that the paste as WORD button was removed from the editor months ago. If you use the Paste as plain 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-text Therefore you have to do your own formatting and spacing.

    Whether 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”

    IMPORTANT NOTE: 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.

    Also note raincoaster’s editing tip:

    when you fix the spacing, you have to start at the top and work down. If you start at the bottom and work up, it always double spaces at least one line.

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