Spacing and Formatting

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    goldberrygreening · Member ·

    I am very unhappy with the current formatting options on wordpress and would appreciate either a plugin to override the mandatory double-spacing, or simply more formatting options in the “add a post” page. When I use shift+enter to override the double-spacing, the hanging indents in my post stop working. It is impossible to properly format poetry on wordpress – either a plugin that would allow single-spacing, or options for single/double spacing, hanginging indents, etc, on the post editor would be much appreciated. Thank you.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    The web, sadly, is pretty archaic when it comes to formatting. It just isn’t a word processor. WordPress.com isn’t alone in this. I design and work on Joomla and Drupal sites and they have the same issues. Even the TinyMCE advanced editor plugin will not give you the control you seek. It just isn’t currently available in web content editors.

    You can control this, but it requires you to write HTML to do it, such as this example (which you can see on my test blog at http://flippintestblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/indented-poetry-test/:

    <p style="margin-bottom:0;">This is the unindented first line</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-indent:20px;">This is the second indented line</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;">This is the unindented third line</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-indent:20px;">This is the forth indented line</p>
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