Formatting Glitch

[rvm45]

Friends,

I THINK that this has been covered before, but I can't find it.

I Paste a story and all the spaces between paragraphs disappear leaving me with a NASTY "WALL OF TEXT."

I have, in the past, gone through and manually inserted an extra space between each paragraph—but I am feeling lazy.

Anyway, I just downloaded TWO OTHER CHAPTERS and neither of them suffered from this digital pox…


…..RVM45

[papaof2]

I replace Paragraph Mark in Word with two Line Breaks to force a blank line. Seems to work reliably. You can do the same with the free "office" packages such as LibreOffice.

If you want double spaces between sentences (instead of the Forum's forced single space), always use two spaces when writing and then do a global search and replace, replacing two spaces with a single space and the HTML non-breakable space (listed here with extra spaces to prevent interpretation) " & n b s p".

Also beware using "[" as it's the character that begins HTML formatting and IF your sequence beginning with a "[" looks like the start of a formatting command, the rest of the line will be lost while the server is searching for the closing "]".