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Hello all ~
When I am creating an entry and press "enter" for a new line, it gives me a double space. I only want a single space. I tried to click shift + enter and that gives me a single space in the editor. But when I save the entry, Serendipity deletes the carriage return and shows that line as part of the previous paragraph.

Can someone tell me how I can change to single spacing for carriage returns?

Thanks!! I hope this makes sense.

Hi!

Could you show us a URL of your blog where you have an entry with that phenomenon? We would need to see the HTML source code of this.

HTH,
Garvin

Thanks Garvin! I was about to bump this post up Here's my blog URL:

http://www.homemakerinprogress.com

This is happening anytime I create an entry and I only want a single spaced line. If you especially look at my entries with any bullet points, you'll see a big double space between the prior sentance and the bullet points. There are times when I only want a single space between there, not double. Anytime I press enter in the post editor, it automatically gives me a double space.

I appreciate your help with this! Thought I could deal with it as is, but it's driving me a little crazy at times because I'm so into "appearance". LOL!

Hi!

hm, if I look at that page and the "Day 10 ~ Raw Food Log" posting for example, I have no extra spacing between bulleted points, neither in IE nor in Firefox?!

Best regards,
Garvin

Hello Garvin -- I apologize...I did not explain it very well...

There are no double spacing in between the individual bullets. For some reason, when I use bullets, the single spacing is fine.

BUT....it only occurs, when I am typing regular paragraph text. After I type my text and then hit 'enter', rather than just going to the next single spaced line, it automatically gives me a double space. THis is fine on some occasions, especially if I need to create a new paragraph. But there are times when I want a single space.

Does this clarify it better?? I apologize if I'm not doing a great job explaining this! My husband has looked at it briefly (he's a programmer) and he's not sure why it's happening.

Thanks for any other help and for your time!

OKay...I think I am going CRAZY. Now everything works just fine!

I just went and created a new test entry and then hit 'shift' + 'enter' to give me a single space and it worked fine even after I saved it. In the past when I did this (used shift+enter) and then saved the entry, Serendipity would bring the line back up to the previous line. (with no spacing!) But I am still having the issue of serendipity giving me a double space after I hit 'enter'. But as long as the shift+enter is working and I can get a single space then it's all good.

I am so sorry to have wasted your time! I don't know what changed because this was happening from the time I started using Serendipity the end of March! Now today, it worked fine. Oh well....thank God!

This newbie greatly appreciates your assistance!

Hi!

Hehe, no problem. All is well that ends well

Shift-Enter should be the perfectly fine way to handle things, yes.

HTH,
Garvin

Hi,

I got same experience with WYSIWYG Editor. I solve this problem with off line entry using Kate (using OpenSuSE 10.2) and copy-paste to the WYSIWYG Editor.

It's OK due to my slow internet connection in my country. I have a bad experience while writing a long post without using regular "save as draft", and while trying to publish this post, it show "Error connection" . Sadly, I tried "Back" button and my post gone away successfully .

You may solve this problem by using FCKEditor as your WYSIWYG Editor.

Best Regards,


Vavai