line spacing in posts
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How can I control line spacing in posts? The default seems to be double-spacing, and I’m damned if I can see how to single-space anything. I have tried erasing formatting, and I’ve tried pasting in text from Word or TextEdit which is clearly single-spaced and devoid of any other formatting.
Help please!! Thanks, Ch.S.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hello there,
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/writing-and-formatting-poetry/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.
Read more here > 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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Note to self: http://en.support.wordpress.com/writing-and-formatting-poetry/ now redirects to http://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/
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The default IS double spacing. To single space, hold the SHIFT key down when you hit Enter.
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Hi TimeThief, and thanks so much for the links in your replies above!
I know just barely enough HTML to understand these articles, and they will be extremely useful.
Cheers, Ch.S. -
A followup question: at
http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#outdent-indent
I’m pointed to the Indent/Outdent buttons on the Toolbar– but they seem to operate globally, on the whole post. How do I control indent level on individual lines of text? I’ve experimented with thetag discussed at http://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/ but it behaves strangely, and doesn't do what I'd like... Thanks for help!
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