paragraph appearance
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If I already posted this, please excuse me. I lost it!
I don’t like the spaces between lines and no ident. I did shift-enter to get single spacing, but how do I have regular paragraph indents, etc?
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Please see what Staff member designsimply says in this thread >
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/need-to-indent-ea-paragraph-in-short-story-how-so-that-it-stays-that-way?replies=2#post-607732 -
P.S. Did you see my answer to you in this thread?
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-tags-work?replies=3#post-715100 -
Oh, yeah, but then I couldn’t find the thread, but I got the email, thanks for that. Lots to learn with the OSE stuff!
The codes I had put in (italic, curly quotes) showed when I copied and pasted from Word to a page in my blog. How would I get the copy in if I put the coding for indent in?
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Microsoft WORD is not web compliant. It contains junk code that has to be stripped out.
Go to Settings > Writing and select “ ___ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and then scroll down and click “Save Changes.”
If you copy and paste from elsewhere without using either icon 5 or icon 6 in Row 2 of the visual editor, please see here so you know how to do this correctly in the future. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text
Using an offline blog editor like windowslivewriter is a far better choice than WORD.
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How would I get the copy in if I put the coding for indent in?
You would have to work in the HTML editor and use what designsimply supplied here for every paragraph https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/need-to-indent-ea-paragraph-in-short-story-how-so-that-it-stays-that-way?replies=2#post-607732
Alternatively if you have CSS editing skills and are willing to purchase an annually renewable custom design upgrade and make a rule so that indenting happens for all paragraphs site wide.
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This would give you indents on paragraphs, but when you use shift-return, that doesn’t start a new paragraph, it is only a line break, so until you actually hit return by itself, everything in between would be one long paragraph, so only the first line would be indented, nothing after the shift-returns.
<div style="text-indent: 20px;">All your paragraphs here</div>The other way to do this would be to code each paragraph separately such as this.
< p style=”text-indent: 20px; margin-bottom: 0;”>Paragraph text here</p>`
The above is very time consuming though as you have to hand code each paragraph after writing it (you would also have to play with the bottom margin to get things the way you wanted them).
The best way to do this would be via CSS, which would take the Custom Design Upgrade. That way you could set it once in the CSS and forget it.
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