Problem with spacing between paragraphs

[astushkin]

Has the correct way to separate paragraphs recently changed? All my stories were written on Word with paragraphs separated by a single hard return and 8pts set after the paragraph. This has always worked in my submissions for the paragraphs to appear correctly on the site.

Recently I submitted an edited chapter in which I split some longer paragraphs for clarity. I split them as described above. When the edited chapter appeared online, the newly split paragraphs had no line between them, but are abutted together:

In towns and villages, he took any work he could find --- if any could be found...if anyone was sympathetic enough to give work to a ragged urchin. When naught but a wee lad, his various employments had included chimney sweep, mucking stalls at livery stables and inns, crawling through tunnels in a copper mine, and washing blood and offal from the floor in a butcher shop.
As he grew older and stronger, he loaded and unloaded guests' trunks at inns, carried bricks and wood for builders, hauled barrels and crates at distilleries and taverns, worked as a blacksmith's assistant, and toiled on road construction crews.

I hit enter after "butcher shop" to split the paragraph (what has ALWAYS worked in the past). How can this be fixed? It makes it much harder to read. Do I need to resubmit another edit, formatted differently? Can the spacing be restored by Lit?
Thanks!

 

[triane]

FWIW -- Paragraph separations in comments don't work either...

Typically, in entering online comments, a soft-CR (shift-ENTER) can be used to create ad-hoc, plaintext, paragraph separations, but, while it works perfectly well during entry of a comment here, it appears that they're then deleted / stripped-out of user comments in the back-end. I have no idea why that's the case, but since it seems to be at least tangentially related to the post above, I thought I'd point it out as well...

 

[ElectricBlue]

I hit enter after "butcher shop" to split the paragraph (what has ALWAYS worked in the past). How can this be fixed? It makes it much harder to read. Do I need to resubmit another edit, formatted differently? Can the spacing be restored by Lit?
Thanks!

Quickest way is to go through your text and hit two Returns at the end of each paragraph. The Word 8 pts is irrelevant - that's a Word spacing thing only. You need two Returns.

Then resubmit - exactly the same story title plus the word EDIT, include a Note to the Editor saying what you've done.

You'll need to do it - the site won't, and I'm a bit surprised it wasn't sent back in the first place. Be patient; edits take low priority - maybe longer than a week.

The forum side formatting is different to story side, but it's always two Returns to get a line space between paragraphs.

 

[PhiroEpsilon]

Quickest way is to go through your text and hit two Returns at the end of each paragraph. The Word 8 pts is irrelevant - that's a Word spacing thing only. You need two Returns.

Then resubmit - exactly the same story title plus the word EDIT, include a Note to the Editor saying what you've done.

You'll need to do it - the site won't, and I'm a bit surprised it wasn't sent back in the first place. Be patient; edits take low priority - maybe longer than a week.

The forum side formatting is different to story side, but it's always two Returns to get a line space between paragraphs.

There's also the search-and-replace thingy you can use...