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Irene
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It's not a facility that I find any use for. You can see what you have typed, so personally I cannot understand why you would need to see it in a different Window before posting. However, just to be of assistance I will try previewing this reply before I post it.

P.S. A post preview appeared in a long line above the actual typing. I will now add reply.

EDIT. That worked fine.

P.S. I am assuming that when you said WILL NOW ALLOW as above, you actually meant WILL NOT ALLOW.

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I've just been replying to another thread and the system will now allow me to preview the reply! :0

It just throws me out of the reply and puts me out at the main menu. :unsure:

"the system will now allow me to preview the reply" - just checking that you mean't not :unsure:

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I am replying to this thread and I am now going to preview it.

I have previewed it and the preview has stayed above the panel upon which I am now typing.

I shall now preview again...

Second part of this message was added and now stares at me from higher up my screen.

edit :- I have brought it back to edit and it came back, so I will send it again.

Shoo! Off you go

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I am replying to this thread and I am now going to preview it.

I have previewed it and the preview has stayed above the panel upon which I am now typing.

I shall now preview again...

Second part of this message was added and now stares at me from higher up my screen.

edit :- I have brought it back to edit and it came back, so I will send it again.

Shoo! Off you go

It went. :lol:

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It's not a facility that I find any use for. You can see what you have typed, so personally I cannot understand why you would need to see it in a different Window before posting.

Just personal preference. :D

I like to check that I think that what I have presented is 'reader friendly'.

Nothing worse than a long string of print without meaningful spacing.

Speaking of which, spacing that is, I do wish that WF would leave in my double space following a full stop.

That is the correct way to present. It is a minor iritant to me. :angry:

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Speaking of which, spacing that is, I do wish that WF would leave in my double space following a full stop.

That is the correct way to present. It is a minor iritant to me. :angry:

That is not WF's doing; that is the behavior of HTML in general. White space is reduced to a single blank character.

The exception is when you use No-break Space characters ( ) - these should be retained exactly as input. Unfortunately it is here where this forum interferes, and replaces al No-break Spaces by ordinary blanks.

So, there is really nothing you can do about the double spaces after the full stop.

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That is not WF's doing; that is the behavior of HTML in general. White space is reduced to a single blank character.

The exception is when you use No-break Space characters ( ) - these should be retained exactly as input. Unfortunately it is here where this forum interferes, and replaces al No-break Spaces by ordinary blanks.

So, there is really nothing you can do about the double spaces after the full stop.

Thanks for the explanation, Pat.. Interesting..

The HTML option on this reply page (lower down on the left) is set to off, so why does it still apply? :unsure:

I suppose you could cheat and use two full stops.. Like this.
As you can see above, Alan, I've given your suggestion a try..

So for .. read, full stop! :lol:

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The HTML option on this reply page (lower down on the left) is set to off, so why does it still apply? :unsure:

Ah, but the final rendering is still in HTML, or in this case, the more advanced XHTML.

The HTML posting option let's you post in HTML, as opposed to the forum-specific BBCode. But once a post is displayed, everything is converted to HTML. All websites on the entire Internet display in HTML.

When you read this post, click 'View' on your browser's toolbar, then 'Page Source', you will see that everything is in beautiful HTML code. If you view your own post, you may even see the two blank characters you typed after the full stop, but once the HTML code is rendered, the blank characters are reduced to one.

I was almost tempted to write "C'est la vie", but it's really "That's HTML". B)

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