wordprocessing/paragraph formatting

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  woodspritevii · Member · Oct 21, 2016 at 5:54 pm

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  All of my careful spacing in lining out a poem disappear the moment I hit PREVIEW or PUBLISH. Why? How can I fix this? If I can’t post my poems the way they should look, I will have to find someplace other than WordPress to blog. This doesn’t make any sense. Also want to be able to adjust to single-space in line spacing. Default seems to be double and that wreaks havoc also on poem-formatting.
  Please help!

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  timethief · Member · Oct 21, 2016 at 6:02 pm

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  If you want to learn how to format and space your posts and pages in a wordpress.COM blog see: http://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/ Specifically see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/#extra-line-breaks

  You can also use the pre tag. See here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/can-i-get-rid-of-double-word-spacing?replies=21#post-2512371

  If you use the classic editor here Dashboard > Posts > Add New to create your posts what I provide below may be helpful.

  In the classic editor, 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 Text or HTML editor, a single click of ENTER will give you a single-spaced line, and two clicks of ENTER will result in double spaced lines.

  Whether or not you are copying and pasting go to > Dashboard > Settings > Writing and enable this setting:
  Formatting
  __ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
  “save changes”

  IMPORTANT NOTE: 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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  woodspritevii · Member · Oct 23, 2016 at 1:24 am

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  Thank you!!!!!!!!

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  timethief · Member · Oct 25, 2016 at 8:04 pm

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  You’re welcome.