blogspot dot com query atmo

[atmo]

i keep two blogs on blogger.com and one thing
continues to evade me: is there an absolute way
to control what people see "aesthetically"? my
point is that i work pretty diligently on the line
breaks in each entry yet sometimes i will view
the blogsite and see that there are arbitrary ragged
line breaks that appear in one browser but not
always in another, and there is no consistancy to
this. most times i view the blog and it looks like
i pasted it initially. other times it looks helter skelter.

is there either a setting i can use to make it look
exactly the same every time, or is it up to the viewer's
text size settings and other control panel shiite atmo?

hey thanks for reading.

ps where did tanita tikaram go.
discuss.

[zank]

I don't add any line breaks to mine and the format seems to be consistent entry to entry.I just let it wrap until I come to the end of a paragraph.

[William]

I have had that same problem pop up from time to time on my blogs. I'm no expert, but I've noticed sometimes that if I cut and paste from Word, the line breaks get messed up in the blog after you publish...even though it looked fine before you pushed the key. Then I have to go back and fix the problem in the blogspot window. That works most of the time, though I have had a couple of instances were that still didn't work and I couldn't fix it. I just aren't a puter exspirt. ;)



William

[William]

I don't add any line breaks to mine and the format seems to be consistent entry to entry.I just let it wrap until I come to the end of a paragraph.

Basically that's what I end up re-doing.

Good on ya mate! :beer:


William

[atmo]

i wonder if there is a setting thet is either on or off
that dictates what is seen once the text is pasted
in. i make my own line breaks, yet lately they seem
to have been taking a free-form vacation atmo.

[atmo]

Basically that's what I end up re-doing.

Good on ya mate! :beer:


William

but what is it that you re-did?

[William]

but what is it that you re-did?


In the blogspot browser:

1.) Go to the line break and put the cursor at the front of the sentence at the end of the break.

2.) Hit backspace key until the first letter is next to the last letter in the sentence at the front of the break.

3.) Hit the space bar.

4.) Re-publish blog.


That usually takes care of it. It doesn't address the root of the problem though.



William

[atmo]

In the blogspot browser:

1.) Go to the line break and put the cursor at the front of the sentance at the end of the break.

2.) Hit backspace key until the first letter is next to the last letter in the sence at the front of the break.

3.) Hit the space bar.

4.) Re-publish blog.


That usually takes care of it. It doesn't address the root of the problem though.



William
okay but will that create an entire new "look"
wrt line breaks versus the ones i pasted in
initially atmo? i got 46,000+ words and i want
them to look pretty.

[Ginger]

Do you use a hard return or a soft return on your line breaks?

To reverse engineer your issue, looking at the code can tell you a lot....(even if you don't understand it at all.)
If you are writing in word, turn your markers on, see what sort of breaks you're creating.
When you dump it into the blog, save it and look at the page source on a helter skelter page and see what the blog did with the breaks (just which type of break is causing the problem, which it is recognizing or not.) Then work backwards from there.

[William]

okay but will that create an entire new "look"
wrt line breaks versus the ones i pasted in
initially atmo? i got 46,000+ words and i want
them to look pretty.

It will give it correct sentence/paragraph structure instead of it being all chopped up.




William


PS: Am I still on the nws Ltr list?

[atmo]

It will give it correct sentence/paragraph structure instead of it being all chopped up.




William


PS: Am I still on the nws Ltr list?
1) correct based on software or based on how i paste it in?
2) email me and i'll add you to the bcc field atmo.

[Ginger]

Once again, turn markers on, or look at source. Select the offending set of characters, and do a search and replace.

Quicker and easier.

[William]

1) correct based on software or based on how i paste it in?
2) email me and i'll add you to the bcc field atmo.


1) Should be based on how you set it up.

2) Will do.



William

[gt6267a]

what word processor are you using for the initial document creation? you will notice a big difference copying and pasting from / to ms word versus notepad. lots of hidden info in word.

for example,
1) copy and paste something in bold from the internet to word, it remains in bold.
2) paste the same snippet to notepad, no more bold.
3) copy the snippet from notepad to word, still no bold.

do you have this problem in reverse?

[atmo]

Do you use a hard return or a soft return on your line breaks?

To reverse engineer your issue, looking at the code can tell you a lot....(even if you don't understand it at all.)
If you are writing in word, turn your markers on, see what sort of breaks you're creating.
When you dump it into the blog, save it and look at the page source on a helter skelter page and see what the blog did with the breaks (just which type of break is causing the problem, which it is recognizing or not.) Then work backwards from there.
i paste it in from either email or forum posts.
the html etc travels well. where it says "convert
line break" it says "yes". i'm afraid to change that
setting to "no" for fear that it'll scramble all the years
of entries. could that happen?