Post comes out different to what was on screen prior to publishing.

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    rogerswritings · Member ·

    Posted poem “Release me from my chains” on my blog. Onscreen it came out as 4 seperate verses, however after you hit publish it bunches up into one verse … can you help me?

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    thistimethisspace · Member ·

    Hello there,
    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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    chaos48 · Member ·

    I have a post that looks great, but on the Homepage there are numerous formatting issues. I tried your suggestions above and they did not work. Would you please take a look and make a suggestion or five?

    Blog: http://ohmsweetohmdotme.wordpress.com/
    Post: http://wp.me/p24idL-1Pe
    Theme: Twenty Eleven
    Browser: Firefox 26.0
    Macintosh OS X v10.7.5

    Thank you,
    Allan

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    Are you typing straight into the Write Post box, or copy/pasting from somewhere else?

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    justpi · Member ·

    @rogerswritings:
    The poem looks wrong because each line is formatted as a separate paragraph, with lots of extra and redundant code at that. Each and every line is like this:
    <p align="center"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-size:large;"><i>LINE HERE</i></span></span></p>
    Edit the post, copy all the text in the Visual editor, switch the editor to Text, select all, delete, paste the text you copied, delete the blank lines that shouldn’t be there, then switch back to Visual to re-insert the image and the link.

    In the future never copypaste from other sources into the Visual editor. When you need to paste, switch the editor to Text first.

    @Allan:
    Edit the post, switch the editor to Text, cut this:
    <!--more-->
    and paste it after this:
    </ul>
    then set the post format to standard and click Update.

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    And stop using Microsoft Word!!!

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    chaos48 · Member ·

    Dear justpi,

    Your solution worked! Thank you so much and my thanks to raincoaster and thistimethisspace for their help.

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