Breaking the Line?

Subject: Breaking the Line?
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 28 May 99 - 08:16 AM

I confess, I am a MudKitten. I don't know how to do blue clicky things. I don't even know how to do line breaks. When I have submitted lyrics despite my best efforts to separate them the lines always seem to get together again. How can I keep them apart?

JAB

Subject: RE: Breaking the Line?
From: hank
Date: 28 May 99 - 08:23 AM

While I'm sure a resident html expert will pop in soon, but til then, to get a break you to <br> Which if I did that right will be a less than symbol, "br" and a greater than symbol. it is used like this:
This is on the next line even though I typed it on the same
And another line.

Your browser has a function burried in on of the menues called something like "View source" If your confused about what I just said, go to that funciton, and compare what I just said to the results.

There is also a html thread someplace you should look at. Good luck!

Subject: RE: Breaking the Line?
From: hank
Date: 28 May 99 - 08:23 AM

Opps, I forgot to mention that if you screw up horridly there are a couple people (not me) who will go in and fix the disaster.

Subject: RE: Breaking the Line?
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 28 May 99 - 11:23 AM

Jim,

Hank has given you the straight scoop. If you are doing lyrics, you might want to do them up on Windows' Notepad or some other word processor. Then you can cut and paste all those <br>'s off-line. You can do the same within the message blocks, but it takes up on-line time which is costly to some.

For most word processors, you just highlight what you want and then right-click your mouse and then left click on the word "copy" in the menu (list) that has appeared.

Then you can click your cursor on the spot you desire, right click your mouse, and then click on "paste" in the menu. The <br>'s will stay in your mouse until you "cut" or "copy" somethin' else, so you can just go through your song, left click, right click, and click on "paste" all the way through. I like to put two <br>'s at the end of verses, etc. to provide two (count 'em 2!) spaces.

Big RiB

Subject: RE: Breaking the Line?
From: Jeri
Date: 28 May 99 - 12:16 PM

Hey, Roger, that right-click copy-and-paste thing works in almost all Windows programs - including Netscape and MSIE. Works in some things that don't even have an "edit" whatsit up at the top pull-down menu. The only thing is, when you right click the mouse, you gotta have the cursor directly on the highlighted text someplace.

Also, you can use <p> - new paragraph - to do the same thing two <br>s. (Now, if that comes out right, it's 'cause I swiped it offa Hank's message up there.)

Subject: RE: Breaking the Line?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 May 99 - 12:28 PM

Hi, Jim - as has been said above, the HTML line break is:

<br>

For more advanced HTML, click here. -Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Breaking the Line?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 May 99 - 12:35 PM

Jeri, I try to encourage Mudcatteers to use two line breaks <br><br> instead of the Paragraph <p> mark. The paragraph mark doesn't always work as a double carriage return when you copy from the 'Cat and paste into another application. If a song is posted with paragraph marks to separate stanzas, it will look all right online. However, if you copy the song and paste it into a word processor, most likely there will be nothing to separate the stanzas and it will be all jumbled together. Make sense?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Breaking the Line?
From: Jeri
Date: 28 May 99 - 01:46 PM

If you're saying word processors recognize <br> but not <p>, or they do something unexpected, I understand. I don't understand why they would work with one of those dohickies but not the other, but I'll take your word for it that weird things can happen.

I shall <p> no more.

Subject: RE: Breaking the Line?
From: Llanfair
Date: 28 May 99 - 02:04 PM

Forgive the total ignorance, but how come you can put the symbols in the body of the thread without them doing what they are supposed to do. The symbol for line break is
. So why doesn't the line break when you do it? Hwyl, Bron.

Subject: RE: Breaking the Line?
From: Llanfair
Date: 28 May 99 - 02:06 PM

HAH!!!!!! What were you doing different???? Bron.

Subject: RE: Breaking the Line?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 May 99 - 02:13 PM

That's where it gets complicated, Bron, when you want to display HTML tags without having them work. Click here to find out how.
It takes four characters to display a left angle bracket, &lt;. That's ampersand - lt - semicolon. the right angle bracket is &gt;
Think of all the work Dan Mulligan did to make those display models of HTML tags at the beginning of the HTML thread. He did a great job.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Breaking the Line?
From: Jeri
Date: 28 May 99 - 11:16 PM

I didn't know how to do this, but Hank (way up near the top of this thread) did. I clicked on "view" then "source," then I read what he did and used it.