How does one get single-line spacing if one wants to do a list? Alternately put, how does one avoid paragraph spacing when going to the next line?
Use
The
Space
Bar
ETA: Nevermind. I’m not sure I understand the question.
I
Have
No
Problem
With
Single
Space
Lists
I don’t think that worked.
The easiest way is to skip the “real” bullet points and add a preformatted text block instead, surrounding your list with the <pre> tag, like:
<pre>
- Step 1: Post
- Step 2: ???
- Step 3: Profit!
</pre>
That becomes:
- Step 1: Post - Step 2: ??? - Step 3: Profit!
Though you do lose out on the automatic bullet-point-ing (or numbering) that way.
Use shift-enter (or shift-return on some keyboards).
- Wait, aren’t the default bullet points
- Already “single”-spaced?
* I don't think these preformatted lines * Are actually any closer together 🤔
The theme just sets the line height to something favoring more line-height and whitespace, I suppose, even between lines of the same paragraph. The bullet points don’t really look any further apart than these lines, at least to me. Do they look different to you?
(oops, accidentally posted)
I’m not understanding the question. End the line / paragraph with a Enter and the subsequent line is single-spaced below the one just ended . On my screen this paragraph is single spaced. I’ll end it now with a single [enter] right here:
And this second paragraph is equally single-spaced below the paragraph just above.
Now if you want more vertical space between paragraphs, you need EnterEnter. Which I did at the end of the second paragraph above. I see an extra blank line below it and above this paragraph.
What does the OP see that I’m not?
Here’s a list of short phrases.
Here’s a list of short phrases.
Here’s a list of short phrases.
Here’s a list of short phrases.
Here’s a list of short phrases.
Here’s a list of short phrases.
Here’s a list of short phrases.
Here’s a list of short phrases.
They each end with a single Enter and the whole list is single-spaced.
In the WYSIWYG editor mode, it’s reversed. A regular Enter causes a new paragraph.
It works differently than in the Markdown mode of yore (which I prefer too).
Boy I wish we’d disable that thing. Confuses everyone who uses it.
Test to see if shift+enter works for me:
Line1
Line2
Line 3 (with plain enter).
So are some people still using that mode? I have an answer to my question (shift+enter works fine for my purposes) but I’m puzzled about this point.
At least two, apparently. LSLGuy and I will clutch it to our ASCII-art-illustrated graves!!
But how does one get to and use that mode?
Click the button with the “Markdown” logo that looks like M↓A:
The WYSIWYG editor is evil, and doesn’t allow you to control the formatting of your post.
OK, not something I probably want to do, but it’s nice to know it’s there. Thanks for the education.
It really should be called the WYGIWJTYW mode: What You Get Is What Jeff Thinks You Want™. Jeff Atwood was one of the co-founders of Discourse.
So now I see that this is a toggle situation, you don’t have to do it every time you want to use Markdown mode. Also good to know.
Indeed. What is doubly confusing is that you can still use Markdown (and other formatting tags) even in WYSIWYG mode. That is also confusing to people: Question about dollar sign coding
It’s also not super clear which mode you’re in. They both look mostly the same, except the edit window gets a bit narrower (because there’s not a side-by-side preview in WYSIWYG mode).
I think it’s just one of those things that happen when a forum is made by a bunch of coders instead of regular people, and many of their users are power users. Discourse has a bias towards advanced usage and an ongoing tendency towards feature creep, as opposed to trying to keep things simple.
It’s not a choice I agree with, but it’s not up to me (or even us, as Dopers who’ve complained on the official Discourse boards about various things).
My visual experience in this place matches that of LSLGuy. I’m using Sam’s Simple Theme or whatever it’s called.
How a post looks after it’s posted depends on your theme (like I have dark mode on in mine), but while you’re composing a post, the editor mode is just a toggle you can switch between with a button. (See above.)
Paragraph spacing is a function of that editor mode more than the theme.