Splash and Dash Searey Seaplane Delights                            Sep 20 8:53 Guest User - Request Membership Layout | Log In | Help | Videos | Site | Emails  Search:   Front Page Calendar Photos Add Photos News Add News File Cabinet Add File Cabinet History Add History * Searey Info * Add * Searey Info * Polls Add Polls Classifieds Add Classifieds Utilities Create a New Site  News View All News | Add News | Emoticons | Mark Unread Search News:      Category: Misc Previous Item - Splashing in Puddle for Adults This will go to the previous thread in this topic.       Favorite option: If you want this item to be marked as a favorite, click on the black heart.   Formatting         Next Item - Traveling Lessons Learned by a Novice Searey Owner This will go to the next thread in this topic.    Sauers, Jeff - May 21,2017   Viewers  | Reply     I'm trying to post a story about a recent trip that I took. And when I either copy the whole story from my word processor or copy one paragraph at a time, then post it, it just becomes one huge paragraph with no carriage returns. So then I delete it and try another way. Can someone give me a tip on how to get carriage returns when I post?          Sauers, Jeff - May 21,2017   Viewers  | Reply     As an example, i typed a carriage return prior to asking the question above, but it just continued on the same paragraph!          Donald White - May 22,2017   Viewers  | Reply     Jeff, Can you please send me the story in the word document so I can reproduce this issue? My email is: easyhouse at yahoo.com          Sauers, Jeff - May 22,2017   Viewers  | Reply     Don W., I think I just nailed it in my response to Don Maxwell. I think the combo of writing on a gmail (draft email) and posting on Google Chrome was causing a problem. Since I have some photos in my story, i'll just try posting again using Safari.          Don Maxwell - May 21,2017   Viewers  | Reply     Jeff, your word processor probably uses some other method for breaking paragraphs or starting new lines. Try copying the whole text and then pasting it into whatever basic text editor your computer happens to have. As I recall, Windows calls its Notepad. On a Mac, it's TextEdit. When your writing looks good to you there, copy and paste it here. Of course, it still might look funny here. For example, I'm writing this in Safari on my iPhone, which also has its own way of handling line feeds and paragraph breaks--as you see here. It's possible for a website to anticipate most various formatting schemes, but that isn't easy, and it's a real PIA for website designers. The only way to be certain that text will be formatted right is to save your writing as a simple .txt file with no text enhancements whatsoever. That works for most websites. This paragraph is copied from the Puffin iPhone browser, to test its formatting method. If it has normal looking paragraph breaks and NO odd looking extra breaks, then Puffin does it differently than Safari does. But I'm predicting that it's the same as the paragraphs above, which will mean that it's an operating system condition and not one limited to Apple's apps.          Don Maxwell - May 21,2017   Viewers  | Reply     Oho! That test paragraph looks normal in Puffin. But if I edit it in Puffin it has extra line breaks--looks in this site's editor the way most iOS postings look after they've been posted. So my hypothesis failed: it apparently IS caused by the app, not the OS. (It does have one formatting foible now, but only because I tried editing it in Safari--a mistake that added the one extra linefeed. I'm too lazy to repair that because it would require logging in with Puffin again.)          Don Maxwell - May 21,2017   Viewers  | Reply     Alas, in the Puffin iPhone browser, long lines don't get wrapped properly, so I have to pan from side to side to see what I'm writing.          Dennis Scearce - May 23,2017   Viewers  | Reply     Leme get this straight. So Mac went on a safari and saw a puffin??          Don Maxwell - May 23,2017   Viewers  | Reply     And a fox, too.          Don Maxwell - May 21,2017   Viewers  | Reply     I'm back in iOS Safari now, and lines wrap as usual on the iPhone. But they still don't wrap in the Edit or Adv. edit modes.          Don Maxwell - May 21,2017   Viewers  | Reply     ACK!!! Now I'm in Firefox on my Mac and see that some of what I wrote in iOS Safari looks normal here and some doesn't. And the paragraph I wrote in Puffin looks screwy on the Mac, but not on the iPhone. Bleaaah! (And I hope you know that this is all the fault of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. When they started pushing Microsoft Windows, they decided to sabotage all other Email programs. That was mainly Netscape, which was a free program that did both web pages and email and a few other things. Microsoft was selling Windows with their own (purchased) web browser, Explorer; and they wanted everyone to buy the Microsoft Word word processor, so they adapted it to handle email in Windows. When Windows wasn't the big seller they hoped, they deliberately set out to undermine the free competition by causing the competition's emails to look weird in Windows and Windows email to look weird in Netscape and Eudora (another free email program). Eventually, Windows won the war, but only because of unfair play. Apple wouldn't play Microsoft's dirty game, even after Steve Jobs and Bill Gates patched up their personal differences, so now we're stuck with these two systems that don't play together very well.)          Sauers, Jeff - May 22,2017   Viewers  | Reply     Thanks Don! Actually, I had typed the story in my Gmail and saved as a draft email. Then I copied and pasted into the post and was using Google Chrome on a Mac! Maybe I'll not use Chrome and try different combo's using a different WP program. This is posted using Safari. And I've added some carriage returns.          Shannon Moon - Jun 08,2017   Viewers  | Reply     This is probably a funcion of the fact that different operating systems use different characters to indicate the end of a line. Windows, and DOS before it, uses a CR and LF character to terminate lines. UNIX (Including Linux and FreeBSD) uses an LF character only. OS X also uses a single LF character, but the classic Mac operating system used a single CR character for line breaks. This can get messy when dealing with different applications that don't account for these different behaviors, and causes issues like the one you are describing (end of pretentious computer scientist explanation, lol).          Nickens, Dan - Jun 08,2017   Viewers  | Reply     Now that you've earned your doctorate, Shannon, pretentiousness is legitimately meritorious and welcome!          Dennis Scearce - Jun 08,2017   Viewers  | Reply     Are you showing off, Doctor Moon?

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