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flfederation:
I've used SMF for years, but this one in particular seems to be extremely selective about newlines.

This one will probably be a new paragraph.
This one should be as well, but probably won't be. At first I assumed it was some kind of "law of the land", though other people seem to have found a way around it. The first one seems to be ok, after that... let's see if this is three distinct paragraphs, or if it joins the 2nd and 3rd. EDIT: Aha! Why does it do this? And who is exempt?

pwhodges:
Newline should be produced by the return key.  If you want paragraph spacing you need to hit it twice.  This is different from Word (and a couple of forum packages) in which return gives a paragraph (spacing according to the style), and shift-return gives a newline without a paragraph break.

flfederation:

--- Quote from: pwhodges on 28 Sep 2020, 10:45 --- Newline should be produced by the return key.  If you want paragraph spacing you need to hit it twice.
--- End quote ---
This is an SMF forum-- I haven't used Word in years. I am hitting the return key twice. What's so odd is that it only works "the first time"-- note the first paragraph spacing in the first post.

I did the same thing consistently, but the results were not consistent. What's more is that this has happened on basically every post since I got here-- though not on other forums, including other SMF forums.

I seem to have found a workaround: on the initial post it will ignore most new paragraphs; when I click Modify I seem to be able to add them.

Tova:
I cannot for the life of me work out what you are doing.

Here is a second paragraph.

And here is a third...

It's working every time for me.

flfederation:

--- Quote from: Tova on 28 Sep 2020, 19:36 ---Here is a second paragraph.

And here is a third...

It's working every time for me.

--- End quote ---
Yes, that's what I would expect. It's very odd to me as well, I can assure you.
How about this one?
How about this one? Is it separate?
WEIRD! But I can fix it, using Modify. It also shows the post as coming from Cloudflare, not my IP, so maybe they're doing this. I reported my own post because the odd IP was strange, but someone already told me not to worry, they said they've seen that before.

It's not a problem if it's easy to fix. If anybody else has this happen they'll know how to fix it.

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