Why did my post appear correctly in the editor, but when posted to the site, lose the spaces just before an apparently random selection of my hyperlinks?
I will vouch for the fact that div-tags are the work of the devil. They impede my formatting on Blogger too. Very evil. I destroy all such tags and then I do my victory laugh.
One way to avoid formatting problems is to write your article in an external word processor (such as Microsoft Word) and then copy/paste it into the Website:LessWrong.com article entry field. (You cannot add the summary break this way, so that must be done afterward.)
This seems to always occur around hyperlinks for me- and some other formatting too (e.g. “I’ve said almostnothing that is original.”) I don’t know why; I usually manually input an extra space.
For now, I simply added two spaces where Less Wrong wanted to collapse my single space into nothing. Hopefully someone will be able to figure out a more elegant solution.
You could try using the HTML character entity reference for a non-breaking space, &*nbsp; (remove the asterisk). It’s not really more elegant, but it will look nicer.
Why did my post appear correctly in the editor, but when posted to the site, lose the spaces just before an apparently random selection of my hyperlinks?
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I will vouch for the fact that div-tags are the work of the devil. They impede my formatting on Blogger too. Very evil. I destroy all such tags and then I do my victory laugh.
Sweet! Thanks.
I certainly didn’t add div tags on purpose, so I’ll be sure to watch out for them in the future.
One way to avoid formatting problems is to write your article in an external word processor (such as Microsoft Word) and then copy/paste it into the Website:LessWrong.com article entry field. (You cannot add the summary break this way, so that must be done afterward.)
This seems to always occur around hyperlinks for me- and some other formatting too (e.g. “I’ve said almostnothing that is original.”) I don’t know why; I usually manually input an extra space.
That happened to me as well.........
Lots of extra effort...… isn’t this meta-fixable?
I don’t know. It’s a great post, though: go fix it!
For now, I simply added two spaces where Less Wrong wanted to collapse my single space into nothing. Hopefully someone will be able to figure out a more elegant solution.
I’m on Snow Leopard, Google Chrome.
You could try using the HTML character entity reference for a non-breaking space, &*nbsp; (remove the asterisk). It’s not really more elegant, but it will look nicer.