Can someone tell me how to set up my text format to look like a book?

  • I’m reasonably familiar with HTML, and I understand that there is a file that runs off HTML-like code which I can edit to change the text format of my page.

    I want the text to look like a book. No spaces between paragraphs-just indents. What code could I use, and where would I put it?

    Also, I know that it is suggested that you not write your posts in a text editor, but is there some way besides moving it to wordpad(which I find causes strange spaces between paragraphs and otherwise messes up the format) that I can paste it unchanged into WordPress?

    Thanks for your time.

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  • Use notepad2 from https://flos-freeware.ch It’s about as vanilla as you get….

    Thread Starter docholliday

    (@docholliday)

    Right, but would I just use that to write the HTML into the text?

    Or are you suggesting it because that is the text editor I should use?

    Thread Starter docholliday

    (@docholliday)

    I just found the way to turn off the rich text editor, but that got me nowhere. The paragraphs are still not present. I need a good way to transfer over text.

    My process is (leaving windowslivewriter and the FF performancing extension out of it for the moment) to write plain text into the write screen field, without using the stupid wysiwyg. That’s about as “plain” as you can get. The program itself adds paragraphing if you double space etc. I’ve never had any trouble doing it like so.

    Book-like, different story. The program has some in-built limitations with that. Even if you simply hard-enter after a line to start a new paragraph, the indent isn’t going to happen….

    The only thing that notepad2 is going to do is keep the compositing application from trashing the formatting. Making the display “booklike” is a whole other thing.

    And I don’t quite know how you’d go about that.

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