Author Topic: Curly Quotes, Emdashes, Linefeeds, Oh My!  (Read 1871 times)

Al Macy (aka TromboneAl)

Curly Quotes, Emdashes, Linefeeds, Oh My!
« on: September 25, 2018, 02:02:51 AM »
“Quotes seem to work on this forum.”
There is no linefeed bug—emdashes display correctly also.
Well, linefeeds aren't perfect.
There should be a blank line between these last two sentences.

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Re: Curly Quotes, Emdashes, Linefeeds, Oh My!
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2018, 02:13:06 AM »
“Quotes seem to work on this forum.”
There is no linefeed bug—emdashes display correctly also.
Well, linefeeds aren't perfect.
There should be a blank line between these last two sentences.

Odd.

Are you using the WYSIWYG editor? I'm not and I dont have a line feed problem. You can turn that off in your profile.

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Al Macy (aka TromboneAl)

Re: Curly Quotes, Emdashes, Linefeeds, Oh My!
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2018, 02:58:40 AM »

Odd.

Are you using the WYSIWYG editor? I'm not and I don't have a line feed problem. You can turn that off in your profile.
That seems to be a problem that some Mac owners experience, and I've seen variations of it on many forums. Some double the linefeeds, some, like KBoards eliminate them altogether ( https://www.kboards.com/index.php?topic=263883.25). I'll experiment with the WYSIWIG option ...

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Al Macy (aka TromboneAl)

Re: Curly Quotes, Emdashes, Linefeeds, Oh My!
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2018, 03:00:36 AM »
Here's a post not in the WYSIWIG editor (that is, after clicking Toggle View).

There should be a blank line before this one.

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Al Macy (aka TromboneAl)

Re: Curly Quotes, Emdashes, Linefeeds, Oh My!
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2018, 03:01:39 AM »
And here's with the WYSIWYG toggled back on.
There should be a blank line above this.

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Al Macy (aka TromboneAl)

Re: Curly Quotes, Emdashes, Linefeeds, Oh My!
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2018, 03:02:53 AM »
Conclusion: This problem occurs when the WYSIWYG option is turned on.
« Last Edit: September 29, 2018, 12:36:18 AM by Al Macy (aka TromboneAl) »

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Re: Curly Quotes, Emdashes, Linefeeds, Oh My!
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2018, 05:48:54 AM »
Conclusion: This problem occurs when the WYSIWYG option turned on.

Yes! 

This must be a bug in SMF. I've been having a problem with line spacing on KBs for a few weeks at least and haven't been able to figure it out. I was just turning off notifications here and turned on WYSIWYG too while I was at it. Immediately started having line space issues, remembered this post, turned it off here and on KB and all is working as it should again.

Thanks, Al. This has been driving me crazy every time I post on KBs. (There's no "blow a kiss" emoji. How wrong is that??)