TinyMCE removes some spacing between paragraphs

I don't know, but I have noticed that sometimes previewing, or adding a chapter a second time seems to take away the paragraph breaks (or add them in). It doesn't happen often enough for me to figure out why that happens.

What I do, is I do a find and replace for the code. that is a tool found in some Word Processors, and Website editing software. Sometimes the paragraph tags have span coding in them, and sometimes the formatting coding is just strange.

I feel kind of stupid asking this, but is there "invisible" code integrated into a word.doc? I have searched word for some way to display code for the web without adding it myself (as I have to actually go through and manually code every italic in each chapter for mugglenet.) If something like this exists, it would be great if I was able to know about it. Save me tons of work. I could also clue in the people on my site who said they tried to post but it "didnt come out right, try again later" and they never do.

This can't happen to just me. I recall hpff.com used to have trouble with it as well, except thiers added spaces in every time you hit preview - and you had to hit preview.

It isnt too bad for me because I just find the four spaces where there was an indent, but most fan fiction writers dont set their docs up like a real story and then create a different version formatted for the web. They probably dont have the telltale indents and  so they get a block of text. Idk. Has anyone had any luck with this problem?

I think Word does have invisible code. If you ever copy something from Word, it has a lot of code stylizing every paragraph, sometimes every sentence. It's annoying and has been a problem for a lot of applications.

http://wordtips.vitalnews.com/Pages/T1514_Reveal_Codes_in_Word.html

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/msoffice/?p=208

http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2006/10/04/Blog-from-Word-2007-WITH-Code-Formatting.aspx

What I find helps, is if you copy your text from Word and paste it into the TinyMCE box. Then click the checkbox for TinyMCE off and you see the code. Then for code that needs to be reformatted, I just copy the code and paste it in something like Macromedia Dreamweaver where I can do a find and replace in the code. I usually copy all style tags inside the paragraph tags and replace them with nothing. You can also replace "<br />" with "<br/><br />" or "</p><p>" to get double spaces, or replace "<p>&nbsp;</p>" with nothing to get rid of extra spaces.

Thanks! I will see if I can get anywhere with the tips on those pages. I appreciate you taking the time to paste in the urls. I hope it works. No one wants to manually code a 15-20 page chapter, especially when you have about 70 chapters lol.

I'm not as handy with Go Live as you seem to be with Dreamweaver. Every line has a mile of font info and whatnot. I think the manual stuff with tinymce would prove easier for me.  😮 Anyway, I'll find a solution. I always do.

Well you don't manually code a chapter by typing in every little thing.

With the text pasted in a file and looking at the coding part, all you do is hold Control+F to open the Find and replace box. Then you just put what you want to replace, and with what. Then you tell it to do it, and it's done. You just have to know what you are replacing and that it will look alright.

Every line has a mile of font info and whatnot.

When I see that, I replace the mile of font info with nothing.

So I find <p style"miscrosoft blah blah 000 inches margin blah blah blah">

and replace it with <p>

It's helpful to know what to do, because sometimes the style of font will have nonexistent margins, and it smushes the lines of text together. If you get rid of the styled part, it will look the way its supposed to.

Use the "Paste from Word" option in tinyMCE.  It's the clipboard with the W on it.  As others have already said, HTML from Word is garbage. If you use that function though tinyMCE does a fairly decent job cleaning it up.

Yeah, paste from Word works well too. Somehow I always forget about that, tehe. XD Probably because I'm always fixing stories that have already been posted by other people.

Thanks Tammy. 🙂

I'll try the paste from word option and see if it comes out better. Thanks again for the help! (I'll let you know if this solves any problems)

I dont know how I never noticed that little icon, but I wanted to report back that "paste from word" solved all of my problems. I didn't have a single missing space. It did, however, add a few extra spaces in here and there but it took me less than 1 minute to scroll through and take them out. I'd hardly consider that a problem, or even an inconvenience. I could have even left those few lines double-spaced and it would have been fine. What a relief! Thanks so much, it was taking forever to post a chapter.

I posted this info on my homepage for my members. I'm sure they thank you as well.  🙂