My poetry looks all right in preview but screwed up when published.
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Each and every time now, if I attempt to post some poetry it gets all screwed up. Either verses in preview look OK but when I press publish verses are amassed into a single verse, or I get the equivalent look of double line spacing in the verses, with no way of reducing line spacing.
This situation has forced me to remove poetry…
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It may help if we could see an example of the formatting problem.
Could you repost a sample of your poetry so that the forum folks can get a better look?
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@therealkazia
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@rogerswritings
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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Have tried suggestions and they seem to work partly. As problem seems to only affect poetry, will see how it goes, if problem persists will opt to remove poetry from site and concentrate on other material which is not affected.
Thanks for help.
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Why don’t you use an offline blog editor like Blogdesk or Windows Live Writer to format? That will at least give you the heads-up if what you’re doing is causing formatting issues.
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Are you perchance copying and pasting from a word processor like Microsoft WORD? Microsoft Word is a word processing program that’s not compliant with web standards. The result of copy and pasting from Microsoft Word into the Tiny MCE editor in WordPress blogs can be unexpected, and contain a lot of formatting code that’s not compliant unless you know how to use the built-in features in the Visual editor for using Word cleanly.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text
Row 2 icon number 6Go here and enable this > Settings > Writing
Formatting
_ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
“save changes”I recommend using Windows Live Writer for posting to your blog > http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/
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