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Percy
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Message 1 of 7 (886404)
05-19-2021 2:26 PM


Triple spaced:
There are two blank lines above this in the original. This line begins with two spaces.
Edited by Percy, : No reason given.

Edited by Percy, : No reason given.


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Message 2 of 7 (886405)
05-19-2021 2:33 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Percy
05-19-2021 2:26 PM


In order to insert blank lines, I normally use the non-blanking space HTML entity,  
Otherwise, I've found the forum software to suffer from a mild form of HTML-itis in which all extra spaces and extra lines get swallowed up.
I assume that you're experimenting with settings.
Edited by dwise1, : mild, not mind

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Percy
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Message 3 of 7 (886414)
05-19-2021 3:49 PM
Reply to: Message 2 by dwise1
05-19-2021 2:33 PM


Could I solicit some feedback/suggestions/etc? It requires a little explanation, so don't feel obligated.
I'm making a fix to something very minor that I find annoying. If I copy/paste the first two paragraphs of your message, then the blank line between them disappears, like this:
In order to insert blank lines, I normally use the non-blanking space HTML entity,  
Otherwise, I've found the forum software to suffer from a mild form of HTML-itis in which all extra spaces and extra lines get swallowed up.
But if I copy the last two paragraphs then the blank line is present:
Otherwise, I've found the forum software to suffer from a mild form of HTML-itis in which all extra spaces and extra lines get swallowed up.
I assume that you're experimenting with settings.
The copy/paste of all browsers now works this way, where all blank lines are copy/pasted faithfully except the first one, but they didn't used to until a few years ago. I finally got tired of adding the missing blank line back in manually and decided to fix it.
This brought me back to some code I wrote nearly a couple decades ago when I made the decisions that I think you're commenting on. All triple-spacing and quadruple-spacing and so forth becomes double spacing. If you want more than that then you could use  , but it would literally take me no longer than a minute to add a new code, [bl] for example, that would add a blank line. It would take me longer to add it to the doc page. You could then do [bl][bl][bl][bl][bl] to get five blank lines. This:
First line
[bl]
Second line
Would produce the same thing as this:
First line
Second line
But this:
First line
[bl][bl]
Second line
Would produce the same thing as this, which is what you have to do now:
First line
 
 
Second line
(An aside: please confirm for me that   only works if you disable smilies. That is what I'm seeing.)
But there's something else. The way the reduction of multiple blank lines to double spacing is carried out means that the extra blank lines are lost in the original copy of your message. So if you entered this in your original message text before clicking Submit:
First line
 
 
 
Second line
Then when you went back later to edit your message you'd instead see this:
First line

Second line
I'm wondering if when people edit their messages if it wouldn't be better to give them back the exact original, instead of the original minus the extra blank lines.
Any other comments/suggestions welcome.
--Percy

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Message 4 of 7 (886415)
05-19-2021 4:36 PM
Reply to: Message 3 by Percy
05-19-2021 3:49 PM


Really couldn't care less.
If you want to spend coding time on the forum, please introduce a 10 minute editing delay before all those edit messages appear.

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Percy
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Message 5 of 7 (886416)
05-19-2021 4:55 PM
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05-19-2021 4:36 PM


k
Edited by Percy, : Add details to the brief acknowledgement of what's to be implemented.

Edited by Percy, : Add a lot more detail and go into depth on all the relevant considerations.

Edited by Percy, : Typos.

Edited by Percy, : Grammar.

Edited by Percy, : Cut it back to a brief acknowledgement again.


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Message 6 of 7 (886417)
05-19-2021 5:02 PM
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05-19-2021 4:36 PM


Why should he, Tango?
I don't see any disruption of forum topics discussion by his tests.
What did I miss, Tango?

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Message 7 of 7 (886420)
05-19-2021 5:12 PM
Reply to: Message 3 by Percy
05-19-2021 3:49 PM


I'm wondering if when people edit their messages if it wouldn't be better to give them back the exact original, instead of the original minus the extra blank lines.
Yes, I would prefer to see the original.
Likewise, I prefer to see the original when replying and I set "Peek Mode".

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