Wysiwyg is NOT.
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Hello Friends!
A bit of trouble today that I cannot figure out. Thanks for being there. :)
Every now and then, at first unbeknownst to me, it seems the spacing between paragraphs is doubled when I hit “enter”.
“Enter” causes quadruple spacing between paragraphs, but NOT in the visual editor, but only in the display, after I Publish. Preview shows it how it should be, though. This is intermittent and I’m not sure what causes it. However, it does not seem to occur when I copypaste from Word. Here is today’s:
http://katharinetrauger.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/it-works-no-matter-what/
I’m a retired teacher, writer, and cannot guess what makes this happen. Maybe using Zemanta?
A couple of other instances:
http://katharinetrauger.wordpress.com/2013/09/28/need-to-blow-the-whistle/
http://katharinetrauger.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/adding-a-new-page-today-top-10/
(On this last one, the spacing after the first paragraph matches the edit page, but not on the rest.)
I have tried redoing a post entirely and it does not help. I have tried retyping it entirely in Word, then copypasting using the special Wordpaste window, and that seems to help sometimes, other times, not.
Thanks, in advance, for the help I know–from experience–I will receive in a timely and kindly way. :)
Katharine
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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://en.support.wordpress.com/writing-and-formatting-poetry/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 HTML (Text) editor, a single click of ENTER will give you a single-spaced line, and two clicks of ENTER will result in double spaced lines.
Read more here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/09/13/wordpress-formatting-and-spacing/
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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Microsoft Word is a word processing program that’s not compliant with web standards. The result of copy and pasting from Microsoft Word into the Tiny MCE editor in WordPress blogs can be unexpected, and contain a lot of formatting code that’s not compliant unless you know how to use the built-in features in the Visual editor for using Word cleanly. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text
Note you need to click the kitchen sink icon #15 at the end of Row 1 to have Row 2 appear. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-1
Go here and enable this > Settings > Writing
Formatting
_ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
“save changes”I recommend using Windows Live Writer for posting to your blog > http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/
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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.
Thanks! This above is the part I needed to know. I knew all the rest, just could not figure why I was getting quadruple spacing in the finished product, that did not show in the editor.
Always more to learn! Thanks again. :)
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