How to get spaces between verses of poems but NOT between each line
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This is not a question, but an answer! We struggled to solve the problem of how to paste a poem onto a page and preserve the extra spaces between verses. “Address” format striped out all line feeds, while “Paragraph” format added extra space after every line. We could not find answers in the support forums, and spent a long time on this problem. A solution we found is as follows: when you’re editing your page, put your poem in Address format, then click the html tab (next to the “visual” tab, upper right of the edit window) to edit in html mode. Among all the html you’ll see mingled with your poem, you’ll notice after each line the following:
</address> <address> </address> <address>
We’re not too sure what all that does, but we found that if you want an extra line feed, say, between verses of your poem, just insert the html codes for line break and paragraph (they are:
<p>) after the last line of your verse, to make the above line look like this:</address> <address>
<p> </address> <address>When you update after making that change, hopefully like us you’ll see a line feed at last between your verses. Perhaps others can add explanatory detail here, but we hope this works for you! Good luck!
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This is classic: WordPress just interpreted our post, above, by adding a line feed where we’d typed the html characters for line feed. That is, we can’t show you the code our solution requires because when we type the characters it formats our comment instead of leaving our text as we enter it. SO: in the above solution, do you see where in our suggested code it says “</address> <address>” then there is a line feed then it says “<p> </address> <address>”? In the code you need to insert for our solution, the html code for line feed goes between those two lines — you enter it all as a single line of code in the html edit window. We can’t enter that code here — it will just enter a line feed again. This is crazy.
Just for fun, we’ll try again. Below is the html code you need to enter. You’ll see: where the needed html code for line feed should go, it will instead enter an actual line feed in our post:
</address> <address>
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Sure enough. It did (see above). This is actually pretty funny. Let’s see… how can we type charaters that disappear when we submit this comment… Let’s try quote:
“</address> <address>
<p> </address> <address>” -
Nope.
okay, let’s try an English description of the characters. Again, these go right before the <p> in the code. The characters are “<” then “br” then ” /” then “>” with no quotes and no spaces other than the one before the “/”. OK, let’s wee what happens.
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We hope you can make sense of this. Not only does Word Press seem to make it impossible to enter poems without extra line feeds, it makes it impossible to describe the solution to that problem! We hope this helps some one, sorry for all the entries — we didn’t know how else to convey all this! Good luck!
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See below the Leave a Reply box:
You can also put code in between backtick ( ` ) characters.
The backtick is the funny character to the left of the # 1 key or the bottom of the ~ key
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@emilyautumnp, did you see this Support doc?
http://en.support.wordpress.com/writing-and-formatting-poetry/ -
I ran into a similar problem today but thanks to your determination to convey a solution it will no longer be an obstacle. Now all I have to do is edit my draft post!
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The easiest way to accomplish this is to press your SHIFT and RETURN keys at the same time to get to the next line without a big space in between.
For example, this line is an example of what you are trying to do.THIS line is a regular return.
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