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Miss Iconoclast
Topic: Really annoying issue
I wrote poetry. Yeah. Well, in poetry, you need to have seperate paragraphs for things to make sense. When I upload poems, I can't space them out properly as they were in Microsoft Word. Help?
#1 Feb 14th 2007, 10:10pm
Midnight In Eden
They're actually "stanzas" or "strophes" in poetry, the former being the more popular name.

To get them on here, go to quick edit/preview. Backspace all the little breaks that FP creates then enter in your own stanza breaks. It's tricky but it should work.

Otherwise let me know.

#2 Feb 15th 2007, 3:45am
Miss Iconoclast
I've done that and it doesn't work :/...
#3 Feb 17th 2007, 7:43pm
Midnight In Eden
It should.

You just need to backspace each line break.

Then enter in very carefully your own stanza breaks. If it messes up, start again.

#4 Feb 17th 2007, 10:55pm
Bitter Irony
To make stanza breaks:

Stanza 1 line one [shift + enter]

Stanza 1 line two [shift + enter]

Stanza 1 line three [shift + enter]

Stanza 1 line four [ENTER]

Stanza 2 line one [shift + enter]

Stanza 2 line two [shift + enter]

Stanza 2 line three [shift + enter]

Stanza 2 line 4 [ENTER]

And so on. Hope that's helpful.

~Bitter Irony

#5 Feb 18th 2007, 10:20am

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