Posts insert extra paragraph spaces.

[bricabrach]

Forum URL: ombdinotopia.proboards.com

     A post I'm writing may appear as shown below:




     Yet upon posting, three line breaks appear everywhere I had just one:



     When I edit to remove the extra blank lines, they don't return.  This is a minor inconvenience since it's easy enough to edit them out.  Mostly, I'm wondering why this happens and how to prevent or work around it.

[yogibearbull]

Use Shift-Enter instead of Enter in WORD.

[Scott]

bricabrach -

Are you writing the post directly on the forum, or in another program first and then copying it over? Also are you switching between Preview/BBCode tabs while composing the post?

[bricabrach]

     Hi Scott,

     In this case I pasted the text from Notepad, entirely in Preview mode.  I typically work this way when posting whole chapters of fan fiction, for example.

[Scott]

bricabrach -

Some programs will have hidden characters - like line breaks - that copy over with the text, though I don't recall seeing that happening with Notepad. Next time try pasting over into the BBCode tab and see what happens.

[bricabrach]

     Scott,

     Pasting directly into the BBCode tab avoids the extra blank lines.  Thanks for the tip!

     -bricabrach