I don't speak html

[flemmings]

So here is my story The Funeral. It seems I hand coded it instead of using word's save as html function. Go me. I inserted p's and /p's as needed. This resulted in paragraph breaks but no single space between paragraphs which (sniff) the purists of online reading insist must exist.

If I add an extra br between paragraphs I get double-spacing.

Why is this? An oddity of my browsers? Should I have used two br's instead?

Comments

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

It looks great on my browser.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

The paragraph breaks are there? Because they aren't in my IE or Firefox.

[incandescens]

I was too busy reading it to pay that much attention to the paragraph breaks. :)

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

I think the paragraph breaks are there ... in anycase the format was fine by me. The text flowed well enough and the breaks were just right. And yes I too was too busy to notice any discrepancies if there were indeed any.

I was gripped from start to finish. I did have to stop here and there and it's taken me nigh on three hours I think perhaps three and a half.

And I am truly awed, amazed, and anything else that says the same but that it's 2:30 am and I cannot think really.

The tears flowed freely and I needed tissues oh yes and I was captivated. By everything. Every detail, every nuance, every intrigue, every feeling. The mourning and the anger, the loss and the feeling that it isn't truly loss. But oh so exquisite a read. (Even if I did get the family mixed up several times here and there and even if I had to go over some things, in some part several times)

And I am missing him all over again.

But O.... an exquisite, melancholic, perfect read.

Thank you so much for being you. *sniffles into tissues* o ermm yeah Good night. ^_^ *HUGS* just because. *sniffles some more*

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

You mean you hadn't read it before? It's six years old...

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

I have read it before .. but reading it last night was a totallydifferent experience than when I came upon it.

I recall I was awed but I knew less about Gaiden then and had less knowledge about 'the Family' then too. I think the experience was a more complete one last night. Also I didn't have the closure on Gaiden then as we do now.

So it was like reading it anew. If that makes sense. ^_^

[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

The /P is not strictly necessary unless you are defining some extra stuff in the P tag.

If you switch the /p to P, you should get the single space between paragraphs.
Alternatively, replacing the /p with br br will do the same.

sez he who has not hand-coded in a while, but believes he is correct.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

So basically, P at beginning *and* end of para will get me breaks? Thanks. (goes to try)

ETA-- but my understanding was that p = br br, and that one p alone would get you a space between paragraphs. In this case I'd have p p between paragraphs, which ought to get me double spacing.

[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

You are right. If you take out the /P and just have one P between paragraphs, it should space properly. It's the /P that does weird things.