How to use space to create clearly defined paragraphs

Question

I have a suggestion for anyone who needs help translating or proofing a large amount of text: break it up into paragraphs with plenty of space between them.

Paragraphs help us to keep our place in the text and to digest the material a little at a time. They also help us show you where your mistakes are and how you can fix them.

Here's how to make paragraphs with plenty of breathing room between them. The sample paragraph in the box below is how each paragraph should look. Each paragraph needs a beginning "p" tag (<p style = "margin: 1.5em 0;" >) and an ending "p" tag (</p>). Make sure you enclose each paragraph inside these tags.

<p style = "margin: 1.5em 0;" >Your paragraph goes here. Place the bold line above before your paragraph, and the bold line below after each paragraph. </p>

• ps, you are missing a "d" in understanding. - Janice Nov 2, 2009
• Thanks for letting me know. Someone else tried to edit it for me and made a little mistake. No harm done though. It's fixed now. - Rex_W Nov 2, 2009

Answer 1

Oh...my earlier post is funny. The "p's" I was writing about did not show up. They are, after all, markup. How could I overlook something so obvious

To actually get these to appear you have to use "symbol entities/reserved characters" in your post, but if you go back and edit your post they will be converted to the appropriate markup and you will be forced to retype each symbol entity in its appropriate position. This is what happened when Heidita tried to edit the original question - the symbol entities were converted to markup.

Once &lt; and &gt; are typed in they appear as < and >, but if you go back to edit your post, they will be read as markup.

Here are some of the reserved characters that are useful when trying to give illustrative instructions for markup:

Symbol  Markup

<			&lt;
>			&gt;
&			&amp;

For example:

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[what you would type]

&lt;p style="margin: 1.5em 0;"&gt;

[what you would see]

<p style="margin: 1.5em 0;">

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• I like the way you explain things. That's pretty hard to do sometimes. - Rex_W Nov 2, 2009

Answer 2

Again, very helpful for allowing questions and answers to be more readily understood! Thanks.

Just a moment ago I was going to end a post with an apology for my poor formatting but decided against it when I realized that I wasn´t sure if I had to double that "t" at the end of the word "format". ..... Now would it not be nice to have a spell checker in the question/answer infrastructure!

I sure hope these kinds of tutorials are saved away in a reference section. I am afraid we will lose the information otherwise. Quentin has added some nice information in the past that I can never find, for example...:-(

Answer 3

....whoops...something seems to have happened to the "p" tag examples??

• My bad, janice, I have called Jason to fix the mess...sorry - Heidita Nov 2, 2009

Answer 4

hmmmm...about those missing "p" markup indicators mentioned earlier...

It seems that if one uses the

and then the

, any hyperlink entries between do not show up in the final post....

Answer 5

hmmmm...about those missing "p" markup indicators mentioned earlier...

It seems that if one uses the

and then the

, any hyperlink entries between do not show up in the final post....

Oh...my earlier post is funny. The "p's" I was writing about did not show up. They are, after all, markup. How could I overlook something so obvious

What I intended to point out was that hyperlinks do not seem to work when enclosed within such a marked up paragraph with a "p" (add the forward leanding slash in your imagination, please) and the "stop p" marks.

• by the way "p" is called a "paragraph tag" - Izanoni1 Nov 2, 2009