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For online reading, the standard formatting for prose is a blank line between paragraphs of single-spaced text, and no indents. This is for improved readability. Drag&drop/simple makes this adjustment automatically, or tries to. Leading/extra spaces are automatically compressed out for online display.

What I see in your item is no indents, as expected by readers, and a couple of blank lines between paragraphs (which may be scene breaks), while most paragraph breaks do not have a blank line.

Many members of this site will refuse to read such a wall of text, and some who do will include a reminder in their review that the formatting is incorrect.

Adding blank lines is very simple. Just put your cursor at the end of each paragraph and click the enter key. The resulting blank line in the edit page should hold in viewing the saved item. If your paragraphing style does not include a hard line break at the end of a paragraph, you will need to click enter twice. Note that a scene break should be three blank lines.

For longer texts, it would probably be easier to adjust the style setting in Word so you don't need to mess with it after the upload. Alternatively, some people use global search and replace to add the formatting codes in their word processor before moving it to the site.



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If you insist on using indents and no blank lines between paragraphs, you can edit that in with writingml codes after the drag&drop/simple upload.

With the edit item window open, in the WritingML button bar over the body text box, about 60% of the way over find the indent button. It has a picture of a right arrow at the top left corner of a page of lines. Position your cursor at the beginning of a paragraph and click the button. The single WritingML tag {indent} will be inserted at that position. Click elsewhere to turn off the highlighting so the tag stays there. Repeat for the next paragraph.

When using paired WritingML tags (such as the pre tags, which preserve the original formatting), the opening tag must go in front of the text to be affected and the closing tag must go after the text to be affected. Thus, when editing text, highlight the text to be affected, and then click the appropriate button on the button bar to insert the tags at both ends of the highlight. Click elsewhere to turn off the highlight. When typing new text, you may click the button first, and then click between the paired tags to start typing the text. If this does not turn off the highlight without removing the tags, you will need to click elsewhere to turn off the highlight first.

For more information about how to use the drag&drop upload system and the WritingML button bar, see:
Enhance Your Item With WritingML from Writing.Com 101 
How To Upload Writing from Writing.Com 101 
WritingML Help






Hope that helps.

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