Desperate for answer to line spacing permanent configuration

[Kaye]

I have read all the old posts re line spacing in the General section. None
of these are useful to me For a start html suggestions are not specific and
I only use html to link. That is why i purchaed front page. Also I have an
entire website to fix up so i can use frontpage.All old pages revert to
double line spacing.
In the help menu they say to go down to design and into paragrah. I have
done that and shows lines as single. i have a prexisting wensite with about
30 pages
and I cant even edit these.
i find it incedible that there is not a default setting. People have talked
about temporary measures but no permant solution.

I just cannot get on with my website and it has been over two weeks. I have
the manual and have been through this and still no answer. Please please can
someone help with a PERMANENT SOLUTION..
Desperate
Kaye

 

[Murray]

i find it incedible that there is not a default setting.

But there is. You have set it. It is single spacing. And you will see
single spacing if you enter a long line of text on the page that wraps
within the container (i.e., without hitting the enter key). Those lines
will have a "single space" between them.

What you are struggling with now is how HTML treats adjacent paragraphs of
text. Line spacing does not affect that. Each paragraph has a default top
margin and bottom margin. It is the combination of these two margins that
gives the space between adjacent paragraphs of text - just as you would see
in a word processor.

The way to change that would be with CSS. You have been given that
solution. And the way to make that work across your entire site would be to
put the CSS into an external file and add a link to that external file to
each page. Even with 30 pages this is not such a big job, but using Find
and Replace to find -

</head>

and replace it with -

<link href="whatever.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>

is a bada bing, bada boom kinda thing....

 

[Mike Mueller]

As Murray says, their is a default line spacing- 100%. What
many people have issue with is starting new lines, and they
will just press the enter/return key. What happens when you
do that is that FP; like a word processor, starts a new
paragraph, which has borders and appears to be doublespaced.
To force a new line and avoid that, use Shift-Return, which
will insert a line-break

:I have read all the old posts re line spacing in the
General section. None
: of these are useful to me For a start html suggestions
are not specific and
: I only use html to link. That is why i purchaed front
page. Also I have an
: entire website to fix up so i can use frontpage.All old
pages revert to
: double line spacing.
: In the help menu they say to go down to design and into
paragrah. I have
: done that and shows lines as single. i have a prexisting
wensite with about
: 30 pages
: and I cant even edit these.
: i find it incedible that there is not a default setting.
People have talked
: about temporary measures but no permant solution.
:
: I just cannot get on with my website and it has been over
two weeks. I have
: the manual and have been through this and still no answer.
Please please can
: someone help with a PERMANENT SOLUTION..
: Desperate
: Kaye

 

[Murray]

Except don't do that either. A line break is a hard-coded thing and no
matter how your text wraps you will always get that break at that point.
Furthermore you destroy the "semantic" meaning of the end of one paragraph
and the beginning of another. Line breaks are not the right solution. CSS
is.