(September 3, 2018 at 8:01 pm)negatio Wrote:emjay Wrote:I just meant 'old' in the sense of 'not modern'... not 'tech savvy'... more likely to be surrounded by books and records than computers and smartphones.Records ?! I have not seen a record in decades, and my last album was the White Album by the Beatles. I had records as a boy, but none are around here. I have four desktops awaiting me finding the time to trouble shoot and repair them, I employ two smartphones constantly, and a third needs a new battery.
I was just now simply trying to please Abaddon, and use double spacing, and what you see is the mess that was simply the result of hitting the enter key twice, and that is all that it is;----I am not acting in pursuit of some clandestine acts whereby I am attempting to place everyone in a schizophrenogenic double bind, and, make fools of you, and all that absurd nonsense. Jesus fucking Christ !
Of course I have a small series of theoretical works, i.e., books which I peruse and or read intently for days on end.
I am plenty tech savvy when it comes to repairing computers and overcoming software problems.
Yes, you have been beautiful to me, just beautiful. It absolutely astonishes me that both you and Abaddon are throwing me away on account of double spacing, paragraphs ! I do nothing in all my writing other than double space, always. This site is horridly difficult, impossible, see what it just did to my post, when I simply pressed the enter button, normally, to achieve double spacing. Wow, such an absolutistic reaction to failure to double space; so here I am again, in a bind with someone who has been wonderful to me because he thinks I am purposely fucking with him when, in this instance, I was using the keyboard normally, and, the resultant is what you see. Negatio.
Look, I'm sorry I was abrupt, but I just don't have the patience for this... I thought I did, but clearly I don't. It would be different if I was standing over your shoulder and could thus physically point to things etc, but trying to teach this stuff without the benefit of visual aids is nigh on impossible... and we could be here for weeks trying to get anywhere.
As to the rest I don't care whether you use double spacing or not, but I've just looked it up and I think I know what might be the root of the problem here. You keep saying you're using the Enter button to create double spaces and I didn't know what you were talking about, since in my world the 'Enter' button and 'Return' button are somewhat synonymous and most of the time do the same thing; create a carriage return line feed, as in like on a typewriter; that is the cursor moves from wherever it is to the beginning of the next line.
But from Googling it, there is a precedent for the Enter button creating doublespaces, both in Microsoft and LibreOffice. So I'm guessing that's what's going on here... ie do you use the Enter button for double-spaces in either Microsoft Office... probably Microsoft Word... or LibreOffice? It would make sense for those programs... word processors... to have that feature because they can be used for writing formal, printable letters... which often would use the double-spacing custom, both for paragraph indentation and after full stops, so it would make sense to have a shortcut key for them. I can't test it cos I don't have Microsoft Office or LibreOffice, or for that matter an Enter button on my laptop keyboard
only a Return button, but my guess is that this is what is causing the problem for you. Suffice it to say then that if this is the case, you should stop using the Enter button to create double spaces on this site, because this site doesn't have that feature; it just does the default thing with the Enter button; create a carriage return line feed, just the same as the Return button. So in other words, if you want double spaces, you'll just have to press the Space Bar twice.
