Lost formatting of Forum Posts

[johnmd]

Hi There Can anyone explain to me how to produce properly formatted posts on this forum, with blank lines and tabs etc to make things clearer to read. Whether I write things directly on the forum or copy and paste in from a text editor, somehow before it is posted [even in the preview] all the lines are run together so it is difficult to read. What am I doing wrongly please? Best wishes, John

[Werner P. Schulz]

The short answer: use double "new line" for new paragraph.

The long answer:
format my posts
BB Code

Greetings Werner

[utu]

Hi, johnmd

Wait 'til you meet the ten-minute limit,
You'll really be disgruntled then.
After you have posted, you only have so long to look it
over and correct it before it's too late.

I usually use leafpad to compose stuff and look it over
before posting and I don't count on being able to control
the whitespace with tabs.

An alternative might be to post the material as code, thusly:

I started a little thread you might use to try things out.
You can probably find that with 'whitespace' in the search box.

I appreciate some of your helpful replies I've run across.

Cheers.

ps: NoScript can also contribute to the problem.

[utu]

Whitespaces are preserved
            this way
                   would have been a better
                                example.

[johnmd]

Hi Werner and Utu

Thanks to both of you for your replies. Much appreciated. Not just the ones in this thread I mean - though I have to admit some areas you get into are way over my head.

I think you scored the bullseye with your ps Utu - probably NoScript is the culprit - I had tried reading through all the help about formatting posts but it didn't seem to work at all for putting in whitespace. BUT - now i have turned off NoScript for this site and all is well - and it had better stay well too - or else!!

This explains the most puzzling thing for me that once I did achieve a formatted post - I remember it clearly because it was the only one - one of a kind - made it seem like a sporadic fault - always the hardest to trace. I must have happened to once have NoScript turned off.

Best wishes, John

ps and here's to lots more readable posts!!

[utu]

Greetings again, John.

Werner's comments are often way beyond my abilities, but he's very patient.

wrt NoScript: I use AdBlock instead.