For the poets in Tips and Tricks
- July 12, 2013, 12:37 a.m.
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There's a little trick to getting single lines to come out right. You can type something like this:
*There once was a girl named Sue
Who was a student up at the U
She said, "Mama Mia!
I think me a mama
The pregnancy test just turned blue!*
And would expect it to look like this:
There once was a girl named Sue
Who was a student up at the U
She said, "Mama Mia!
I think me a mama
The pregnancy test just turned blue!
But instead it looks like this:
There once was a girl named Sue Who was a student up at the U She said, "Mama Mia! I think me a mama The pregnancy test just turned blue!
Markdown does have its quirks. An easy fix for this is to add two spaces at the end of each line. Then you should get single line formatting. :)
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Decayed Elvis ⋅ July 12, 2013
I was using the old line break html code for my WONDERFUL haiku submissions. Handy stuff. Thanks!
simple mind Decayed Elvis ⋅ July 12, 2013
when my haikus don't
wrap from one line to the next
two spaces solves it
Teflon Superhero Decayed Elvis ⋅ July 12, 2013
LINE BREAK! That's what I needed to do!! smashes head into left over pizza on desk
Linda ⋅ July 12, 2013
It's going to take awhile to get used to Markdown.
Rick ⋅ July 12, 2013
Thank you so much...I want to post some of my poetry and song lyrics here, and thanks to this handy trick of yours, I can do that easily. At least I hope I can. I haven't tried it yet, but will very soon. You are wonderful. Thank you.
Deleted user ⋅ July 12, 2013
Thanks, M'lord.
Krud ⋅ July 20, 2013
Good
to
know.
LivingWaterCreek ⋅ July 31, 2013
giving.. this.. a try..
LivingWaterCreek ⋅ July 31, 2013
ooops, spaces
and i learned
there is no way
to delete notes!
Deleted user ⋅ August 03, 2013
Awesome. Thank you so much for all of these Tips in advance. I think that it will save a lot of people a lot of stress lol.
Deleted user ⋅ August 16, 2013
Ha! I managed to figure something out on my own!
I'm no poet though.
My writing style has just evolved into one liners!!!
Deleted user ⋅ August 16, 2013
Hmmm...I guess I have to take that back.
I was only pressing enter twice.
That just creates a space between the lines.
Sigh...
Mood Swinger ⋅ October 10, 2013
Thank you so much; I've just been trying to figure out this very thing!
Deleted user ⋅ October 13, 2013
You know, p tags work strangely within blockquote tags. For some reason, they change the font. What's the best way to get a new line within blockquote tags?
Also, the "two spaces at the end of a line" thing didn't seem to work in a bockquote in a note. I like blockquotes because they give an easy way to set off text with an indent.
simple mind Deleted user ⋅ October 13, 2013
Mixing HTML and Markdown doesn't really work; it's best to go with one or the other. That's why the two spaces doesn't work in the blockquote tag. If you want to try it the Markdown way... and this is an experiment...
Which gives you... (and I hope this works since comments don't have a preview function....
Deleted user simple mind ⋅ October 14, 2013
Thanks. I'll experiment a bit. I do tend to avoid markdown because I'm more used to simple HTML for these purposes. I have been avoiding putting p's in blockquotes because they make the apparent font size too large for my taste (this does not happen in a blockquote without p's). I don't think you let users control/modify this with font or other tags, but I haven't really tried.
simple mind Deleted user ⋅ October 14, 2013
I'll probably tweak the styles so block quote fonts are consistent and not overly large.
Deleted user ⋅ October 14, 2013
Thanks, I'd appreciate it.
Dictynna ⋅ December 19, 2013
Awesome! I love your super simple solutions (woah that's a lotta s's) to things that at ... well, other sites ... require at times advanced html to fix!
Silverstar46 ⋅ March 03, 2014
Hey, is there a way to center things and I just missed the entry?
Writing To Escape ⋅ June 11, 2014
Thank you :)