Excessive gaps between paragraphs

[Victor]

Hello.
I have just started my first blog, thescreamingabdabs.com. I think Serendipity is great, and I'm enjoying learning about it. A problem I have is that I am getting very large spaces between paragraphs. I'm using wysiwyg, and I think I need to step up my learning of html but, in the meantime, could somebody tell me how I could reduce this gap please.
Many thanks.

[yellowled]

A problem I have is that I am getting very large spaces between paragraphs. I'm using wysiwyg, and I think I need to step up my learning of html but, in the meantime, could somebody tell me how I could reduce this gap please.

Check if you have the NL2BR event plugin installed. This usually isn't needed with proper HTML markup. Basically, if you would write your entries as plain text (which some people do, but the WYGIWYS editor prevents), it inserts line breaks. You can also check the plugin's configuration to turn it off for certain parts of your blog.

YL

[Victor]

Thank you so much for your help. I think it may have been that plus the fact, possibly, that I copied and pasted from a word file. I've turned off the NL2BR event plugin for now, and the wysiwyg option, and I've got it looking how I want. Mnay thanks.

[yellowled]

plus the fact, possibly, that I copied and pasted from a word file

Trust me, you do not want to do that. Word inserts various HTML tags, a lot of them deprecated, which will make a reasonable formatting via your template's CSS almost impossible.

The much more sensible approach for writing your content offline (I guess that's your intention) is to write it in a text editor like i.e. notepad++, paste in into your WYGIWYS editor from there and do any formatting in the WYGIWYS editor.

YL

[Victor]

Thanks... I get it. I'm going to persevere with html now. It's the only way I'm going to learn. I'm really grateful for your help and advice.

V

[frontier psychiatrist]

If you're using Firefox, you might find ScribeFire (http://www.scribefire.com/) useful. Within the ScribeFire Window, you can switch to Source Code View and then paste content from Word into it. After switching back to normal view, all tags are removed, and you can publish your entry.