Paragraph line spacing test

@admin  Thanks for providing that info, Tammy.  It occurs to me that it might be worthwhile for you to call the fix I described earlier to the attention of the developers.  If a simple change like that can resolve the problem at the user end, perhaps it would be suggestive to them of a correspondingly simple change that could be implemented at their end, that would allow the issue to be resolved for everyone without waiting for the future upgrade you referred to.

Thanks.  Best regards,
-- Al

Erik -- See my post just above. It appears that a very simple (although very obscure) change to a setting in Firefox resolves the problem.

Best,

-- Al
 

I think I may have found a solution.

First, I found the following thread. It involves using Firefox on other forums, and the symptoms it describes are not the same as what we’ve been seeing here. But it adds credence to my observation that the problem began when Firefox 60 was introduced, and it appears to confirm that the issue involves interactions between Firefox and the characteristics of the specific software that is used by specific forums.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3040337

I’m posting this with Firefox, composed in a normal manner, after first running some tests using the Preview function under the response box, the tests involving changing an obscure Firefox setting which was referred to in that thread. That being as follows:

In the Firefox address bar enter "about:config" (without the quotes). If a cautionary note appears bypass it by clicking "I accept the risk," or whatever such words appear. (I’ve routinely done that many times over the years for various reasons, without issue). In the search box which then appears enter "editor.use" (without the quotes). Right-click on the line that says "editor.use_div_for_default_newlines" and click "Toggle." That should change its value from "True" to "False."

Close Firefox, re-open it, and hopefully you’ll find that the problem is solved, with no side-effects. That appears to be the case for me, as far as I have been able to tell based on some preliminary tests and on composing and submitting this post. And if any undesirable side-effects subsequently appear, here or elsewhere, it’s easy enough to change the value back to "True."

Best regards,

-- Al

I’ve noticed this issue running Firefox on Windows 10 ever since the update of Firefox to version 60 about a year or so ago. The issue was discussed in one or two threads around that time.

To get paragraph spacing to come out properly what I’ve had to do is to initially put a second space between paragraphs, then click the Preview button to see what that produces, and then usually for just some of the paragraphs eliminate the extra space based on what I see in the preview. Followed by an additional preview to verify that everything looks right. There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to where the extra spaces are necessary and where they aren’t.

Recently I’ve changed to Chrome, for reasons unrelated to Audiogon, and I don’t have that problem with it.

BTW, Uberwaltz, you’re probably already aware of it, but re Windows 7 I’ll mention that Microsoft will be discontinuing security patches and other forms of support for it in about 8 months, on 1/14/2020. It’s possible to purchase a W10 license and upgrade 7 to 10 without having to reinstall all of your other software and data, although a "clean install" of 10 followed by installation of programs and data from scratch might be preferable in terms of performance.

Best regards,

-- Al