Sometime around 16/9/08 (at 18:05 -0400) rob jillson said:
I don’t really understand how that works in word and pages. If I
hit return once in those programs in returns me one line just as it
did with my old typewriter.
One important thing you need to do when dealing with creating layouts
and handling content for the web is that it is NOT just about how
things look.
When you type a return in a DTP app (forget typewriters, they’ve not
advanced much since the beginning of the 20th century when the Shift
key was invented) you create a logical string of text. When you type
a return, that string is ended and a new one is begun.
Each string is a self-contained paragraph. Each paragraph can be
styled up independently, and you can choose things such as
inter-paragraph spacing and so on.
In the web, things are similar - except that in this potentially
highly interactive and dynamic environment - that is rendered on the
fly in a dozen different browsers - the way paragraphs are normally
handled is somewhat different. For one thing, the default is to get
extra space between paragraphs.
You seem to want to be able to presss Return and not get a paragraph
break. But this is normal behaviour in the web. What you have to make
sure you’ve grokked is why you break text up into different
paragraphs and where the soft-return linebreak would be better.
If I return twice, then I get a new paragraph.
Actually, every time you hit Return you get a new paragraph. If you
type a word and then two returns you’ll have three paragraphs, as
you’ll see if you look at whatever your apps use to show you such
stats about your work.
And, in those programs, I can control my line space on the return,
single, one and a half, or double.
That’s line spacing, not paragraph spacing. A whole different kettle
of fish! 
I hope someone else can step in here - I know I’m rushing this
somewhat, but I’m off to Rotterdam first thing in the morning. I
might be away from the Internet for a few days!
if I were in an html editor - what would the code be for getting a
soft return versus a hard return.
is paragraph return (I'm not going into details about enclosing
tags etc.), and
is for a line break.
k
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