Friday, June 1, 2007

Carriage Return Issue Solved

Okay, so now I've figured out how to get the carriage returns to show up in the text. You have to go in and edit the Html, which is actually easier than it sounds. When you are typing a post, you are normally under the "Compose" tab and you've got a window that looks much like an email composer window, complete with the standard editing tools. The other tab at the top is labeled "Edit Html". When you click on that, almost nothing happens, except that your fonts go to a generic font, with a bunch of code at the front of the paragraph stating what the font is. When you enter a carriage return (Enter), the program needs to know that you really want a back return and new line. I changed the settings in the program to automatically enter a "(br)" (actually, not parends, but <> around the br) into the Html when you hit the Enter key and it works. In the future, things should be WYSIWYG, though those settings will have to be incorporated for each new blog set up.

It worked this time. Too well, as it urns out - the code I quoted actually functioned.