Live Writer: New paragraph & new line

Windows Live Writer is an excellent tool for writing blog post, especially the long ones like my last post, Writer saves a draft intermittently so that you don't lose your work in case of computer catastrophe.

Some of my friends who use Live Writer as their main blog composing tool, noticed as an issue that when hitting the <Enter> key in the compose window, Writer introduces double line space instead of a single line space. I found out today the reason and a workaround (actually a feature).

Whenever, you hit the <Enter> key, Writer introduces a new <p> (paragraph) tag to your blog HTML. This depending on your blog style shows as double line space. For a single line space, you actually need a <br> (break) tag in HTML and not the <p> tag. To insert a new line you can use <Shift>+<Enter>, when Writer encounters this key combination, it introduces a <br> tag. Some examples...

This line and the next line are separated with a <Enter> key

--This is the next line--

This and the next line are separated with a <Shift>+<Enter> key combination
--This is the next line--

In conclusion...

<Enter> for introducing a new paragraph
<Shift>+<Enter> for introducing a new line

Enjoy writing with Writer
later...