Line Spaces

[lckscknfck7]

Is there a way to prevent "the system" from adding line spaces, and leaving line spaces where I intentionally double-spaced?
The double-space problem is minor, but when I've started my recent stories, I start the text with a line from a poem or song, skip two lines, and then get on with the story. It's a small touch of what I thought was something interesting, but "the system" takes out one line space for some reason. How do I tell "the system" to leave it alone?
If I type something like:
<BR>
<BR>
Will that leave two line spaces, or will the story get published with two sets of <BR> gracing the text?

The other problem happens when I have a short exchange of dialogue usually following or preceding a paragraph. I leave a line space, start the dialogue, and then leave a space to give the dialogue a pause, or before continuing onto the next paragraph.

"Person one is saying," person one said.
"Person two is saying," person two said.

This usually worked and was as-intended in previous submissions, but now, line spaces are being added to anything that doesn't appear to be a paragraph. The result ends up not only taking up more room, but removes the ability to show a visual pause or delineation from one mode or action from another. How do I prevent "the system" from altering what was intended?

 

[Britva415]

You can put <br> tags in your text, but there are two issues:

The first issue is that the "preview" doesn't accurately represent how they'll appear in the final published story page.

This masks the second issue, which is that a <br> tag only works the way you want it to if there isn't whitespace around it.

For<br>example:

The above comes out looking
like this.

But <br> counter-example:

The above comes out looking

like this.

Another<br> counter example:

The above comes out looking

like this.

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example:

The above comes out looking

like this.

Every time a <br> tag touches whitespace on either the front end or the back end, the system treats it like a new paragraph with a linespace between the two paragraphs. The only way to get a <br> to work like a "carriage return," and break the line without jamming a blank linespace into the break, is to put the <br> in without space characters between it and the two lines you're trying to break.

In your case, it sounds like what you want, then, is:

Input:

Poem poem end of poem.<br>

Beginning of story

in order to get exactly two linespaces.

Output:

Poem poem end of poem.


Beginning of story

And remember that it won't look right when you Preview it. It will look like too many linespaces (one extra).

 

[lckscknfck7]

You can put <br> tags in your text, but there are two issues:

The first issue is that the "preview" doesn't accurately represent how they'll appear in the final published story page.

This masks the second issue, which is that a <br> tag only works the way you want it to if there isn't whitespace around it.

For<br>example:



But <br> counter-example:



Another<br> counter example:



Final counter
<br>
example:




Every time a <br> tag touches whitespace on either the front end or the back end, the system treats it like a new paragraph with a linespace between the two paragraphs. The only way to get a <br> to work like a "carriage return," and break the line without jamming a blank linespace into the break, is to put the <br> in without space characters between it and the two lines you're trying to break.

In your case, it sounds like what you want, then, is:

Input:


in order to get exactly two linespaces.

Output:


And remember that it won't look right when you Preview it. It will look like too many linespaces (one extra).

So, for the dialogue parts where I want just a carriage return, I'd write a line, place the <br> and start the next line (conversation text)?

"Person one saying something," person one said.<br>"Person two saying something," person two said.

And it should result in:

"Person one saying something," person one said.
"Person two saying something," person two said.

I'll try that and see how it works. If "the system" messes things up, I can always have the story removed and start over. Thanks!

 

[Britva415]

So, for the dialogue parts where I want just a carriage return, I'd write a line, place the <br> and start the next line (conversation text)?

"Person one saying something," person one said.<br>"Person two saying something," person two said.

And it should result in:

"Person one saying something," person one said.
"Person two saying something," person two said.

I'll try that and see how it works. If "the system" messes things up, I can always have the story removed and start over. Thanks!

I wouldn't recommend it, but, if that's really how you want to format it, then, yes, that's how you would achieve that.

Your typographic choices are none of my business

 

[SmilingLez]

This might help you out,

https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-format-a-story-with-html