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Rework on the linebreak

User Interface (UI) / User Experience (UX) · Editor: plato · Created by Raxafar
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What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?

  I love that Plato is a WYSIWYG editor, but the linebreak is really a pain for me:
  • typing "enter" does not linebreak, you have to "shift-enter" instead and for skipping a line you have to doble "enter".
  • there are also bugs with the linebreak and sometimes the linebreak doesn't produce the same effect, making the formatting annoying. The result is that you have to hit the "preview" button a lot, loosing the benefits of the WYSIWYG editor.

    • How does this feature request address the current situation?

      In a result it would be nice to have an option in the editor that makes the linebreak work as it is in Word for example: "enter" for line break, "double enter" for skipping a line.

    The Team's Response

    Hello there :)   So let's clear some things out first
  • In order to make text more readable in order to get a line break you need to leave a single empty line
  • You can achieve the same by using a [br] and the end of the line (the idea of a double space is also floated in the past to emulate the Markdown system)
  • Another way to have a line-break is to use paragraphs [p]...[/p] or any other text separator like center, left, right, justify that all leave space at the end of them.
    • Changing the way the system currently is will mean breaking the design of several tens of million articles so, it is out of the question - because ... I do not want to get killed by a raging hoard of angry people. (I think that is fair)
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    Current score

    43/300 Votes · +7950 points

    Votes Cast

    • +100

      by RobinMarlesuth
      on 2021-12-02 17:43

    • +200

      by Kelban
      on 2021-12-02 06:57

    • +300

      by BroodiestCone
      on 2021-12-02 01:47

    • +300

      by turtlelover5656
      on 2021-12-02 01:16

    • +300

      by SailingOcelot
      on 2021-12-01 13:28
      This would be very helpful! It is often inconsistent for me as well.

    • +100

      by Sicariouse
      on 2021-11-28 14:59

    • +300

      by InCeruleanInk
      on 2021-11-25 20:21

    • +300

      by Attacus
      on 2021-11-25 12:56

    • +100

      by Fungeonmasters
      on 2021-11-24 17:31

    • +300

      by ThePharaoh
      on 2021-11-24 08:38

    • +300

      by DerWächter
      on 2021-11-24 01:42

    • +300

      by beautanical
      on 2021-11-23 23:04

    • +200

      by Squanto
      on 2021-11-23 15:04

    • +300

      by Stabilo153
      on 2021-11-23 14:04

    • +300

      by The_Betrayer_Titan
      on 2021-11-23 10:25

    • +300

      by DMStretch
      on 2021-11-23 06:13

    • +300

      by Railynn
      on 2021-11-22 22:54

    • +100

      by PhntmDrgn
      on 2021-11-21 21:50

    • +300

      by xSpazztic
      on 2021-11-20 01:13
      I also have seen these results and would love to see it improved.

    • +100

      by NorthenSky
      on 2021-11-19 15:22
      Yes sometimes the linebreaks don't work consitent. It shows an extra line, even when there is none and the next and following line look ok. I tried to workaround with paragraphs

      &

      . But it did not help.

    • +20

      by Tchevy3
      on 2021-11-18 21:28

    • +300

      by Ilyena_Sylph
      on 2021-11-17 22:40

    • +100

      by StrayArya
      on 2021-11-17 13:22

    • +100

      by A Roaring Dragon
      on 2021-11-17 09:23

    • +50

      by cedes
      on 2021-11-16 19:44

    • +300

      by A Thundering Velociraptor
      on 2021-11-15 20:30

    • +10

      by SoulLink
      on 2021-11-15 17:13
      This option already exists. The BBCode makes everything inside have that behaviour you want.   For the future, I guess it would be possible to have the Plato editor add that by default.

    • +20

      by karhall
      on 2021-11-15 16:31

    • +300

      by M. A. E. Krawczyk
      on 2021-11-15 15:20

    • -300

      by A Rambunctious Kobold
      on 2021-11-15 14:16

    • +100

      by ethancochrane
      on 2021-11-15 03:54

    • +200

      by BCGR_Wurth
      on 2021-11-14 21:33

    • +300

      by Everwild
      on 2021-11-14 19:14
      I thought I was the only one getting inconsistent results with this; sorta good to know it's not something I'm doing wrong, but rather a product of buggy formatting options. Would be super nice if it were fixed and consistent.

    • +200

      by mastergentleman
      on 2021-11-14 16:57

    • +300

      by aithanir
      on 2021-11-14 14:38

    • +200

      by biomag
      on 2021-11-14 08:39

    • +300

      by NMan7496
      on 2021-11-14 03:39

    • +300

      by GMSeth
      on 2021-11-14 03:06

    • +50

      by Vantaj
      on 2021-11-13 15:08
      The paragraph functionality does seem to produce inconsistent results sometimes, probably a result of interactions with HTML and CSS.

    • +300

      by DiceJockeys
      on 2021-11-13 14:51

    • +300

      by Rahjar
      on 2021-11-13 12:49

    • -300

      by A Enfeebled Cthulhu
      on 2021-11-13 09:34

    • -300

      by Michael Chandra
      on 2021-11-13 09:32
      I like being able to type single-enters for easier-to-read grouping of bb-code and whatnot, it would become far more ugly and unreadable if formatting all has to be on the same line.

    • +300

      by Raxafar
      on 2021-11-13 09:21

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