I contribute to several web site based forums and several weeks ago paragraphs suddenly began to be posted as double spaced paragraphs. An extra line space, just between the paragraphs.
Prior to sending a post the spacing is single spaced, once posted they show as double spaced. Editing and removing the extra lines then clicking send, they appear as I would like..
Any ideas please what has happened to change this?
In Thunderbird, which I note you dont use, it is usually a selection of 'paragraph' rather than 'body text' as a default.
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No, not in my newsreader, just the online web forums. Everytime I type a line after a paragraph, it appears to be fine on my screen, until posted. What I have typed and posted then becomes double line spaced between the paragraphs.
I cn go back ad re-edit, remove the extra line, repost and all is as I originally intended. If it were just one forum, I would blame the forum own software, but it affect all the forums I use, so it must be some oddity here on my computer. I'm using W10 plus Firefox for the forum's.
Your browser will be displaying what the forum(s) tell it to, can't see it's anything other than a problem at the far end, do they all use the same software? e.g vBulletin or PHPbb or whatever?
Have you asked other forum users how they see your posts, or their own posts, have you asked the admin?
Line lengths on the site changed, and spaces inserted instead of carriage returns? I see this when trying to cut and paste some content from web sites into word. I find at least one extra space pushes the thing to another line then a carriage return makes another new line creating the double space effect. Brian
Andy Burns submitted this idea :
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.6 is being used by two of the forums I see the problem in.
To answer Brian Gaff - Had it been something to do with a change of line length, then I would expect an extra line space to be added within the paragraphs. I will try talking to site admin...
Assume they started treating as a paragraph separator. On some I find that I have to use to signify a line break instead of a new paragraph.
When using a tablet I just ignore it or avoid using line breaks.
Cheers
Dave R
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