Trouble properly composing forum posts

[Sue]

I am having trouble composing forum posts in that, even though I place line spacing to indicate breaks for paragraphs, after I submit the post, everything runs together like one giant paragraph.  I then have to go into ‘edit’ and put in line breaks again to make it look right.

For example, this sentence was typed following a blank line to indicate the start of a new paragraph. If it follows the way previous posts have appeared, after I submit, the words “right.” and “For” will run together with no space between, and this will all look like one huge paragraph.

Any ideas why this is happening, SCM Tech People?

[Sue]

Oh sure….this time it didn’t do it.  But I have had this problem more than once before, so if it’s not a total mystery, maybe one of you can address the issue.

If not, feel free to ignore this post.

[Sue]

Okay, here’s an example of what’s happening, and I’ve narrowed down the problem as well.

When I first wrote the last post I added to this thread, simplycharlottemason.com/scmforum/topic/agriculture-science-books/, and clicked “submit,” the post looked fine.  All of the paragraph breaks were there.

Then I realized I wanted to add one sentence as a new paragraph at the end of the post, so I clicked “edit.” My post came up to edit with no paragraph breaks whatsoever.  I put a paragraph break in at the end and added my sentence, clicking “submit.” What posted in that thread is what you see in the above link: no paragraph breaks within the previously written material but a paragraph break before the last sentence which I added during editing.

I think the moral of this story is that you should expect to edit your previously written material to show your paragraph breaks when you edit to add anything to a post….but I’m pretty sure that’s not how it’s supposed to be.

Of course, none of this matters in the grand scheme of things unless you are a visual person who has had to undergo serious therapy just to get used to using “u” instead of “you” while composing a text….;)

[Claire]

This cracks me up!  I’m a visual person too and would spend more time “making the post look right” than I’d spent composing it … forget completely whatever pressing discussion was at hand in said post.

[Sue]

Well, I’ve been known to compose, recompose, proofread, totally rewrite, and finally submit a post….only to discover that two other people said basically the same thing I did in the time it took me to do all that!

[Doug Smith]

Thanks for the testing to narrow it down to editing. I haven’t been able to make it do it so now I have to figure out what the difference is.

What web browser software are you using?

[Sue]

Google Chrome Version 41.0.2272.118 m

Just to be clear, the post I’m referring to in the link I gave you is the one that begins with “Thanks for the book recommendation. One of our local libraries has it!” Originally, I had place a paragraph break immediately following those two sentences. That break disappeared when I went in to edit the post.

[Doug Smith]

Does it take away paragraph breaks if you try to edit any other posts?

[Sue]

Yes, it was not just that particular post.  It has done that for other posts/threads as well.