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I've never found it more challenging to create a newline...

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flfederation:
Using three newlines solves the problem-- if I can train myself to do that here. If not, edit works!

On any other forum, two newlines accomplish the same. I have noticed that some formatting depends on Javascript (for example, we discovered in another thread that posts by ignored users will show anyway if Javascript is not enabled) so it's possible that this is the "magic" responsible for my experience.

I have Javascript enabled, though it is selective. At any rate if I had figured out he workarounds before posting this thread, I likely wouldn't have posted it.

pwhodges:
This is clearly some inconsistency in handling LF (or possibly in some situations CR) on its own as opposed to the CRLF combination, specifically when multiples (maybe not always the same!) are adjacent.  Such problems have been around for over thirty years, and have mostly been shaken out - but the code base of SMF is rather old (the current version 2.0 is twelve years old, though patched at least once a year).  However, I'm not inclined to scan the whole code of the forum looking for a possible reason.

Sorry about that - but if someone cares enough, the code is open, so you can try for yourself!

It may also be relevant that the forum is running on a very old and unsupported version of PHP whose string handling may be a bit cranky; there's actually nothing I can do about that (I tried pressing for an update a couple of years ago).

flfederation:
I assure you it isn't that big of a problem, I only started the thread to try to work out what was going on. I'm happy with the workarounds.

With that said, it's certainly interesting as a puzzle. I've never had this sort of trouble with SMF; I switched exclusively to LF-based (vs CRLF-based) operating systems more than a decade ago. I'm sure that Mac users are not uncommon here-- I've owned a couple old ones, but never purchased or relied on one. On a timeframe-related note I started reading QC more than a decade ago as well, and used to own a TEH shirt-- but now I can't imagine QC without Bubs and Claire.

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