Ongoing problem of no space between paragraphs…
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I’m waiting for a fix too. External blog posting programs don’t recognize wordpress’s cool ability to affix a password to individual posts, so I have to use the WordPress editor. When I first started using this service, paragraphs worked fine, then recently stopped working. I don’t want to have to type code in.
Do they not know about the problem?
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I’ve had this problem for months and have found it to be a consistent issue with every theme used and with every browser I’ve used it on. It is the single most annoying problem that should be addressed immediately! Trying to post anything takes about 10 minutes, because I’m futzing with p and br tags with every post. I’m about ready to switch back to MT4! C’mon guys and gals—fix this!
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I too am having problems with this. Not only can I choose to have something single spaced when hitting enter, I can not add extra spacing– which makes things particularly frustrating when trying to post something like a poem where I need to be able to separate the stanzas. I tried entering
into the code and that did not work either. Theme: Ambiru by Phu http://dlmtleart.wordpress.com -
To get just a return at the end of a block of text, without the blank line, you hold shift and press return/enter. In the graphic design/page layout world it is called a soft return.
I’ve just tried several of the tricks I had used before to get two lines between blocks of text, and none of them work (actually they didn’t work all that well before).
The only thing I can suggest to get two lines between stanzas is to use shift-enter and then on the blank lines, put a period and then change the color of the period to the background color of your text area.
You have to remember, the web is NOT a word processor or a page layout program and is subject to the rules of HTML. In HTML, an additional paragraph return will be stripped out as will two spaces between words or sentences. That’s HTML, that is how it is.
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For poem formatting, you should be able to use the “pre” tags, but although the editor will keep extra spaces between words in a line, it will not keep extra spaces at the beginning of a line, and it will also not keep extra lines between blocks of text. This sort of goes against the use of the intent with the “pre” tags which is to keep the formatting of text inserted into an HTML document.
It looks like there are some changes coming on the editor handling of the “pre” tag down the road a little.
The only drawback on the pre tags is that they force a monospaced font which some may not like.
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I’ve played a little, and what you have to do is turn off the visual editor and then do the pre tags and formatting by hand. WordPress still will not honor an extra line between stanzas or paragraphs, but there is a workaround that works as long as you have the visual editor off. Put`<p> </p> on a separate line between and it will give you two blank lines between the stanzas.
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You don’t have to do any of this. Go to perma link and bringt he post up for editing in visual. Highlight the post. Go to format. Choose paragraph. Go to justify and justify the text. Go to Save. Hit save. Go to view post. View post. It worked for me and I am virtually clueless.
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