Line spacing (specifically poetry)
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So, I’ve had this problem since I started on WordPress: when I post poetry, just hitting enter/return on my keyboard will show a blank line as a space divider, like this:
But when I publish the poem, it displays on my website without that spacing line, all smushed together. Which really can ruin the effect. So I’ve taken to putting a period on the blank line, like this:
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Not that it’s a big deal, but I feel like there should be a way to get blank lines. Any ideas/help?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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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
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“save changes”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/
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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I compose and copy from MacBook Pages to get good formatting in my posts most of the time. So far I do not have trouble using the Pages software unless I am posting poetry.
I want single spaced lines with breaks between the stanzas. I used the single space editing in Pages and then used the enter to separate them.
Please see this link (https://helpmeet39.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/gone-home-forever/) to see it does not work when I try to post poetry. Why does it work on other posts using paragraphs?
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Hey! I think my problem is solved.
I wanted single spaced lines until a new stanza begins and I believe I have that now. Going to the Text vs. Visual option and deleting the HTML mark-up worked for me.
Thanks!
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