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John S.

Hello Stuart.

I'm sorry in my previous message I failed miserably to explain myself to you what I meant.

If you hit the Return key somewhere in a line, the next line will be written after a blank line.
If you want to create a new line without a blank line before it, please press simultaneously the keys Shift + Return.

The editor in this forum used to work that way.

Best regards
Dias Costa

P.S.: To create each of the blank lines you see in theis message I pressed Shift+Return twice.

Hi Stuart, I know it is of not much help but I recently use Windows 8 and IE 10 and have the same problem. If you find a solution please let me know.

No it isn't.

This reply is using Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10 and it works just fine.
Shift + Return from the above line = no gap.

Return on its own = a gap.

Martin.

Hello John Shepherd.

Thank you for calling my attention to this.

I also don't know if other people has the same difficulty to read my messages using that font.
I know can read it without difficulty (and I have vision problems…).

I use that font in my messages because I write my messages in LibreOffice Writer (part of a Open source and free package) and then copy and paste it to the forum editor. And I configured LibreOffice to use Comic Sans MS font by default.

I can, however, and ever I remember it, use the same font with a little larger size like I do in this very message.

Please let me know if this benefits your reading.

Best regards
Dias Costa

Dias

I have just realised that the problem with reading your posts is on my Ipad. The font displayed is definitely not comic sans and is more like a handwritten scipt similar to the 'Edwardian Script' font.

It displays fine as comic sans MS on Windows.
I have tried to cut and paste into this post to show what the problem is but it reverts to this standard font.

Regards

John,

Thanks for mentioning the iPad

… I have dug a little deeper and found this useful explanation.

… The short paragraph directly under Font Family explains all.

iPad cannot display "Comic Sans MS", so it picks the the next on the list, which is "cursive".

Dangerous stuff, HTML

MichaelG.

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Just to clarify my earlier post … it's not a "cursive version" of "Comic Sans MS" that we are finding difficult to read; it's the iPad's default/generic cursive font; which it appears to be substituting.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 07/12/2012 21:49:27

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 07/12/2012 21:50:38

Dias,

It looks like the iPad is using "Snell Roundhand" as its generic "cursive"

… if you have a look at that font, I think you will appreciate our difficulty.

MichaelG.

You'r welcome…. but it wasn't me. It works fine here on Linux/Firefox and with XP/IE6.

Russell