line spacing messed up when I preview blog post?
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I started writing my latest post on my iPhone but when I went to finish it on my laptop, and previewed it before I posted it, some parts of the writing are really spaced out (like double line spacing) and other parts no spacing at all – but when I go back to edit draft it’s normal again??? I don’t want to post it and then it has varied sizes of line spacing, looks weird… Any help would be appreciated
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I do not use a mobile device for blogging but I can offer some help with formatting and spacing.
To display the second row of icons, select the toolbar toggle icon at the end of row 1 and click it. https://i0.wp.com/en.support.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/kitchensink.png
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.
For the iphone wordpress app, you may need to inquire over at http://iphone.forums.wordpress.org/
If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there.
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Thank you so very much! This has saved me a lot of time and frustration.
absolute legend!
cheers,
cat
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Thank you for the post! I’ve been having the same issue, and some poetry is as much reliant on visual presence as it is words.
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