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Formatting reviews. It's bugging me.
vigerous 26 Reviews 988 reads
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I've noticed that a lot of you have figured out how to add a blank line between paragraphs. I've tried putting a couple of spaces in the empty line. But is seems extra white spaces and linefeeds are stripped. I added a link to an example, though if you know the solution, you know the problem!
   
Anticipating the loss of the blank line, I started adding 5 spaces to start each para. Again, the extra white spaces are stripped.  
   
So, for me, extra white spaces and linefeeds are being stripped. Got any ideas? Is it a setting on my PC?
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Edit: I should add that I'm trying to avoid adding a '.' or some other character on that line to create the appearance of a blank line.

-- Modified on 4/12/2023 5:44:11 PM

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coeur-de-lion77 reads

just hit the "enter" (line space) key twice and type away.  If you are talking about posting on the discussion boards, you need to hit it three times in order to create a double-space.  

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vigerous70 reads

I'll give it a try....
 
Well, I'll be damned, I have one sitting in the queue that I just used the triple-cr on and it worked! (At least in preview mode.)
 
In Discussions, I hit cr->space->cr and that gets me a blank line. Weird that it works here but not in reviews.  
 
Bugs the hell out of me reading a review that's a 500-word paragraph. Sometimes I need to use my finger to go to the next line.😖 At least the guy left a review!

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36363jensen73 reads

Yep, one of those odd behaviors of the TER UI.  

 
On behalf of many here I'm sure, thanks for at least having the sense to notice.

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holystonethedeck65 reads

I find it very annoying that I always have to remember to throw extra CR/LFs in my reviews and board posts.  

 
Totally ridiculous that it's necessary. Once in a while I forget and whatever I write ends up looking like shit.

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vigerous64 reads

More that *looking* like shit, it *reads* like shit. When I open the example I provided of a review I wrote, it scares me! and I want to close it as fast a possible. For real. I even started using para headers as separators for the, what I thought was, inevitable scrunch.  
   
Annoying or not, I'm just glad I know how to do it. 👍

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BigPapasan76 reads

...the 's' from 'https' when posting a link in the body of a post in order to make it "clickable."

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lester_prairie75 reads

I've been putting periods as a spacer between lines.
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It seems to work.
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Easy to remember.

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impposter71 reads

Also, if TER switches their system again, it will interpret carriage return CR and line feed LF differently again. Currently, three CRs are equivalent (1) back to the beginning of the current line (2) go to the beginning of the next line (3) go to the beginning of the next next line leaving a blank line between "current" and "next next."  
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When the GUI starts to properly interpret a CR and a COMBINATION of a CR+LF, the displayed text will show TWO blank lines between the "current" line and where you start typing again.  
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OLD posts with a single CR-LF used to be displayed properly. When you view them in the current GUI, there are no paragraph breaks.
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Using the CR-period-CR = CR . CR method, text will be displayed properly today AND in the future when the GUI will still see CR+LF . CR+LF as one blank line with a dot (period) on it.

Posted By: lester_prairie
Re: Periods
I've been putting periods as a spacer between lines.  
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 It seems to work.  
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 Easy to remember.

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BigPapasan93 reads

And learn how to spell "gooey."  Carriage return??  I've got a carriage on my typewriter, not my computer.  No wonder I look like this when I use my computer:

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36363jensen65 reads

To be honest I find the single period as a paragraph break about as annoying as no breaks at all. Seems like it's just as much effort and demand on memory. But, if that works for you keep doing it.

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