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

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pwhodges:
What OS are you using?

flfederation:

--- Quote from: pwhodges on 29 Sep 2020, 01:45 ---What OS are you using?

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It varies. But on this forum, generally BSD. However, this does not happen on other forums.

N.N. Marf:

--- Quote from: flfederation on 27 Sep 2020, 21:24 ---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?

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I see 3 paragraphs there, but between the 1st and the 2nd is a double-newline. The double-newline between this and the next paragraph really shouldn't be there, but I'm using it as a typographical example. I'm padding this line out it out to give it a fuller paragraph form i.e. to have it wrap around probably at least once. It's just a matter of form, really. You can probably skip this completely. Don't worry, I'm not saying anything especially interesting.

This is the 2nd paragraph. It's really about something similar enough the the last prior paragraph that it shouldn't be part of a new `super'-paragraph. Just pretend I'm talking about something else right now. Maybe I'm discussing a separate point mentioned somewhere else in the same response-context.
This would be a 3rd paragraph, or the 2nd paragraph in this `super'-paragraph. Anyway, I'm just padding it out again. It doesn't really mean anything per se. The next graphic characters after the next newlines, I wouldn't even consider a paragraph, because it's just a line alone separated out from everything else. Maybe it's more like a punchline. I'm using a triple-newline between that or this paragraph, but a double-newline should suffice.


I like that rendering here preserves whitespace---even if it's annoying sometimes.

flfederation:

--- Quote from: N.N. Marf on 29 Sep 2020, 05:53 ---I like that rendering here preserves whitespace---even if it's annoying sometimes.

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It does on edit, even for me. It clearly does on initial post for most, or they wouldn't find this confusing. But let me demonstrate by adding a single newline with the enter key here:Newline created. Now let's try two newlines:
New paragraph not created. Now let's try three-- perhaps this will create a new paragraph: (now using enter three times)

Is this a new paragraph? If not, whitespace was not preserved. But it's not a real problem, if I click "Modify" the additional newlines will "take" on editing.

Edit: using three newlines (even on the first post) creates a new paragraph for me, while two newlines requires an edit first. So now there is an additional way to do this.

Tova:
I hope that someone works this out because I need answers.  :-o

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