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You may notice, if you're posting material from your WIP in Share Your Work or elsewhere, that paragraph indents disappear, i.e. text falls to the left margin, which can result in big blocks of text that are hard to read. This is a quirk of the message board software that's beyond our control.
The easy workaround is to manually insert a blank line between paragraphs -- like I'm doing as I write this message -- to break up the big text chunks that may put readers off. (If you only notice how bad things look after you post, no big deal, select the Edit button down in the lower right corner just below your message, you can add blank lines then save your changes.)
But there's a smarter way, which allows you to post your text with "indents" visible. Member Michael Parks has provided a text reformat utility that can be downloaded from his website. Read this thread for details and screenshots:
http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96696
And here's a quick link to the zip file, right-click then select Save Target As to download:
http://michaelparks.info/add-indent.zip
Alas the utility only runs in Windows.
-Derek
The easy workaround is to manually insert a blank line between paragraphs -- like I'm doing as I write this message -- to break up the big text chunks that may put readers off. (If you only notice how bad things look after you post, no big deal, select the Edit button down in the lower right corner just below your message, you can add blank lines then save your changes.)
But there's a smarter way, which allows you to post your text with "indents" visible. Member Michael Parks has provided a text reformat utility that can be downloaded from his website. Read this thread for details and screenshots:
http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96696
And here's a quick link to the zip file, right-click then select Save Target As to download:
http://michaelparks.info/add-indent.zip
Alas the utility only runs in Windows.
-Derek
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