Spacing between poetry verses.
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Recently I cannot seem to get breaks between verses to load when publishing poetry. The spaces are showing in the editor but note once published. They used to always publish correctly but now it seems impossible even after multiple edits.
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@stephendallen – Does this previous forum thread help answer your question? https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/formats-for-poetry?replies=4#post-2126941
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I still have the same problem. I have 2 blogs on WordPress and the same poem was posted to both. Nothing was different in each posting yet the spacing issue appeared on one posting and not the other????
I typically write in Scrivener or Word and copy/paste the posting into the WordPress editor and thought that might be the issue but writing directly in WordPress results in the same issue. Below are links to the same poem on the 2 sites.
http://throughthecrackedwindow.wordpress.com/2014/11/04/coffee-shop-3/
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If you are copying and pasting from a word processing document like Microsoft WORD please read this https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/the-paste-as-word-button-has-been-removed-from-the-visual-editor?replies=3
Go to > Dashboard > Settings > Writing and enable this setting:
Formatting
__ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
“save changes”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://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/09/13/wordpress-formatting-and-spacing/
See also: http://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/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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I appreciate the help everyone but I am still stuck with the same issue. It is beyond me why this is only an issue on the one blog and not the other when all settings on both sites are exactly the same.
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Have you enabled the setting I pointed to on both blogs?
Go to > Dashboard > Settings > Writing and enable this setting:
Formatting
__ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
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Yes I did, both sites are set up the same. When I edit the post and put the blank line between verses it reverts to no space when updated. I even deleted the post and recreated it as a new post and got the same result.
Note: This is a blog I have had for several years and have never had this issue, even when posting from a mobile device. So it seems something has changed recently. -
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Hi there,
If you are really concerned about the formatting for your poetry, you will probably want to familiarize yourself with the code for the “empty space.” This is literally a tiny snippet of code which allows for a single space, and is a placeholder which allows a double-hard-return. In the poem which had paragraph breaks, there were spacers present, but in the one without paragraph breaks there were none.
That empty space is this code:
I took the liberty of fixing the poem on your site, but here’s the code as it needed to look:
My eyes close, the sweet scent playfully teases Freshly baked, soft and fragrant Vanilla I think, with just a hint of cinnamon The strong coffee is warm in my hand Sitting alone, the magazine lies open More a way to avoid the occasional stares Music, aromas, mixed conversations, just one perfect moment Problems with spacing can happen at any time, so it’s great to get to know tricks like this. You can edit the code at any time by switching over to the Text/HTML version of your post by clicking the tab in the upper right hand corner of the compose window.
I hope this helps!
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Well shoot. Looks like our forum software wanted to process that space code as a space even though it was set to just display the code.
Well, this is what it looks like:
Sorry about that!
So your poetry looked like this:
My eyes close, the sweet scent playfully teases
Freshly baked, soft and fragrant
Vanilla I think, with just a hint of cinnamon
The strong coffee is warm in my hand
Sitting alone, the magazine lies open
More a way to avoid the occasional stares
Music, aromas, mixed conversations, just one perfect moment
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Well there you go! I used the code to fix another post and it works very well. Still odd that adds the space sometimes and other times not when entered in the visual editor.
Great to know how to correct it though! Thank you everyone very much.
Stephen.
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@amightywp – might it be possible to adjust something somewhere so that when one does a search on the word “poetry” in the Support search, the snippet for the Advanced HTML Support doc mentions it? It is not entirely obvious. Thanks!
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