Spaces and returns ignored in post

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  wrjones · Member · Aug 31, 2009 at 1:24 am

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  In one of my pages “Landscapes”, when I type a space to move the title of the painting to the right. It is ignored. Likewise returns for a newline are ignored. If you look at the other pages, e.g. Portraits you will see the title lined up with the left side of the painting while in Landscapes the title is to the left of the painting. Also in Portraits you can see open lines between paintings while in Landscapes they are not there.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 31, 2009 at 1:28 am

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  That’s correct: WordPress.com doesn’t function like a word processor. In order to have those spaces, you’ll have to put in special HTML code or learn some workarounds like putting invisible images for indents, etc.

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/images-and-text-wrapping-new-lines-too?replies=6

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Aug 31, 2009 at 3:12 am

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  @ wrjones
  Sorry, I’m not seeing either a “Landscapes” or a “Portraits” page on the site linked to your name? ( http://onpainting.wordpress.com/ )

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  wrjones · Member · Aug 31, 2009 at 4:38 pm

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  Raincoaster – thanks for looking at this but it worked in the past as evidenced by the Portrait page.

  1tess – the blog is http://wrjones.wordpress.com/ Sorry – thought I included that information

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Aug 31, 2009 at 6:54 pm

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  I’m not sure what is going on. Which theme did you start with?
  It could be you have styled a theme which automatically adds a frame around each image unless you specify the border on each image to be “0”

  What I mean is that with images set to “alignnone” (or left), then the text below should all be within the same margin unless the images have frames. You should not have to add space before the text below the images.

  As for the line breaks, or lack of them, raincoaster is right. Sometimes switching from the visual editor to html and back will mess up the code for paragraph and lines. And if you work exclusively in the visual editor, your cursor could get between tags without your knowing and then the lines don’t break as you expect.

  If I were you, I’d look into formating with a little html. Here is a link that might help:
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/formatting-text-pt-1/
  Use divs or p with styling that includes padding for more consistent spacing.

  Hope this makes sense?

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 1, 2009 at 1:22 am

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  WordPress.com has been tinkering behind the scenes and many reportedly former workarounds no longer work.