Why can't I no longer begin lines with spaces?
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you have taken
the art
out of my art,severed
the poetry
from my poetry.no longer can i use
the gentle spacebar
to punctuate
a line–
give
beautiful form
to my
beautiful work.why
the fuck
have i been
deprived of the
formatting freedom
that i once knew
here at wordpress?why is every
new
poem
edited
without my permission
upon the instant of posting
to remove all
seemingly
unnecessary
spaces?please return my
prized artist’s autonomy.best,
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Why can’t I no longer begin lines with spaces?
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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