Formatting Gone Kaflooey (A Technical Term)
Posted by Steven Richardson on January 31, 2008
In my last few attempts at posting to this blog and my legal technology blog, I have had some problems with the formatting, mainly with generating a blank line between paragraphs. This lends a great degree of readability to a post, and thus resulted in the text not looking right to my eye.
I use the online text editor for wordpress.com, so when it happened I went to the “Code” tab and noticed that there were no <p> tags (there had been when I had posted in the past) and the use of the <div> tag, which I had never seen before. Odd. I would put them in and save them, only to have them disappear later when I made another change to the blog. I have tried hitting Enter twice, as well as <shift> Enter, but the extra lines would disappear after saving. The same happened when I chose “Paragraph” from the pull down formatting list.
I contacted WordPress tech support, and they are working on it, but I thought this post would help them to get an idea of what I am dealing with here. Perhaps it is my obsessive compulsive nature, but I have lost a lot of time (and productivity) trying to post entries that will be easy to read and follow, and will look professional. Hopefully, Mark, Alex, and the gang at WordPress will figure it out!
