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Title: Why is forum software frequently cutting my paragraph breaks?
Post by: Mr. Peabody on April 30, 2019, 05:10:12 am
I have to modify, and often shift-enter to be sure. What gives?
Title: Re: Why is forum software frequently cutting my paragraph breaks?
Post by: PL1 on April 30, 2019, 11:57:07 am
I have to modify, and often shift-enter to be sure. What gives?
Two Carriage Returns (enter twice) or two Line Feeds (shift-enter twice) works fine for putting a blank line between separate paragraphs or chunks of text like in this post, or are you talking about something else?

Are you expecting auto-indenting on the first line of each paragraph and a gap with no blank line between paragraphs?   :dunno
- That type of auto-formatting is often found in word-processors, but AFAIK is not available in any forum software.

What keystroke(s) are you trying to use for paragraph breaks?

Are you typing on a keyboard or are you using tapatalk?


Scott
Title: Re: Why is forum software frequently cutting my paragraph breaks?
Post by: Mr. Peabody on May 02, 2019, 05:25:44 pm
Keyboard, wired. I enter twice to paragraph. Press 'post' and often it will clip the space between the lines. Modifying and pressing enter to re-make the space will often get clipped again on 'post'. Have to modify and shift-enter.
Title: Re: Why is forum software frequently cutting my paragraph breaks?
Post by: PL1 on May 02, 2019, 06:52:21 pm
I don't know why the forum is doing that to your posts.   :dunno

The oddest part is that it doesn't do it consistently.  If the forum software rejects/clips the ASCII keycode for enter (13), it seems like it would do that every time.   :banghead:

For further troubleshooting, the only things that I can think of are:

1.  Try posting with shift-enters. (Line Feeds)
-  Might be the easiest workaround.

2.  Try a different keyboard.
-  Your current keyboard may be sending some unusual/spurious keycodes or modifiers.
-- Enter is 13
-- Left-shift is 160
-- Right-shift is 161
-  You can view and compare keycodes using a keyboard test program like this one (http://kadevice.net/loader/utils/keyboard_tester_v0_1_0_8.zip) that Jon wrote for KADE.  Related thread here (http://www.kadevice.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=428).
(If the links in that thread don't work, change the link URL from kadevice.com to kadevice.net)


Scott
Title: Re: Why is forum software frequently cutting my paragraph breaks?
Post by: Mr. Peabody on May 07, 2019, 07:02:43 pm
All the codes are correct, with no drops. I don't know.
Title: Re: Why is forum software frequently cutting my paragraph breaks?
Post by: Howard_Casto on May 19, 2019, 10:55:20 pm
Just thought of something.  Could this be a keycode issue or some conversion of Unicode formatting?  Special events like an end line or carriage return are often a two byte code in some languages and certain file formats.  Mind you the first byte is typically empty but it'll cause issues for search and replace functions. 

I have no clue what's on the back-end... I'm just spit-balling. 
Title: Re: Why is forum software frequently cutting my paragraph breaks?
Post by: Mr. Peabody on May 20, 2019, 03:11:41 pm
Just thought of something.  Could this be a keycode issue or some conversion of Unicode formatting?  Special events like an end line or carriage return are often a two byte code in some languages and certain file formats.  Mind you the first byte is typically empty but it'll cause issues for search and replace functions. 

I have no clue what's on the back-end... I'm just spit-balling. 

Do you mean something different than PL1 mentioned?
Title: Re: Why is forum software frequently cutting my paragraph breaks?
Post by: Gilrock on May 20, 2019, 03:37:49 pm
I've noticed you tend to respond to posts like 3 to 4 after everyone quits talking.  So my thought was quit interacting with the forum using the WABAC machine. :)
Title: Re: Why is forum software frequently cutting my paragraph breaks?
Post by: saint on May 24, 2019, 08:53:41 am
Mr. Peabody - what OS and what browser are you using?
Title: Re: Why is forum software frequently cutting my paragraph breaks?
Post by: Mr. Peabody on May 24, 2019, 04:44:45 pm
Mr. Peabody - what OS and what browser are you using?

Windows 7 and Firefox latest (with Ghostery and https-everywhere). This happens only here, though I haven't tried another machine nor keyboard.


I've noticed you tend to respond to posts like 3 to 4 after everyone quits talking.  So my thought was quit interacting with the forum using the WABAC machine. :)

You silly. Depends on the topic and when I visit.
Title: Re: Why is forum software frequently cutting my paragraph breaks?
Post by: Mr. Peabody on June 08, 2019, 06:26:14 pm
No incident in the last few times. No incident on other machines. I will post if another occurrence.....