Is there an easier way to makes paragraphs ? (Html)

Question

I'm writing a story, When ever I'm done with a chapter I place it in a HTML file for fun. I've been using the paragraph tag for each paragraph. But I have a lot of paragraphs and there's a lot more to come. I'm here to ask if there's a easier way to do so. Willing to use css.

So that's the easiest way? okay. Sorry for wasting your time then... — Dan, Sep 06 '15 at 17:46
I am not sure. Have a look at my answer below and if you think, it is what you are looking for, then feel free to ask more questions or accept it. — Praveen Kumar Purushothaman, Sep 06 '15 at 17:47
The P tags are what I'm currently using. I was just asking if there was another way besides it. — Dan, Sep 06 '15 at 17:49
What do you mean by any other way? `

`? AFAIK what you are doing is the right way. — Praveen Kumar Purushothaman, Sep 06 '15 at 17:50
Take a look at LaTeX, the first setup is not an easy process, but it's exactly what you're looking for. Feel free to ask more questions ;) Although it's not really programming. I highly recommand sharelatex for a first try ! — Fundhor, Sep 06 '15 at 18:02

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '15 at 17:46

This is not a programming question, but still, since I know the answer I am answering it. What you are looking for is, Markdown.

Markdown is a Wiki like syntax, specifically used for Rich Text Content. So now since you have an issue with writing too many paragraphs, Markdown makes it easy to convert all the double line breaks to paragraphs for you.

For eg., consider the below text:

Pages that you view in incognito tabs won’t stick around in your browser’s history, cookie store or search history after you’ve closed all of your incognito tabs. Any files that you download or bookmarks that you create will be kept.

Going incognito doesn’t hide your browsing from your employer, your internet service provider or the websites that you visit.

You can see that there are two line breaks after the word kept.. This will render in a browser, when you input the above text in a Markdown converter, this way:

<p>Pages that you view in incognito tabs won’t stick around in your browser’s history, cookie store or search history after you’ve closed all of your incognito tabs. Any files that you download or bookmarks that you create will be kept.</p>
<p>Going incognito doesn’t hide your browsing from your employer, your internet service provider or the websites that you visit.</p>

That's not what I meant either but what ever, Thanks anyway. — Dan, Sep 06 '15 at 17:48
@Dan Tell me more then. I am ready to help you out. Or may be you are looking for `white-space: pre-wrap;`. — Praveen Kumar Purushothaman, Sep 06 '15 at 17:49

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 06 '15 at 17:50

Depending on how picky you are about presentation, you may consider wrapping the entire thing in...

<div style="white-space: pre-wrap">
Epic story of epic unicorn epicness!
</div>

This will preserve all whitespace, not just newlines but also spaces between words. This means that if you have a large space in your text (conveying a pause through typography, or whatever) then you can just type a bunch of spaces and they will work.

However, you won't have the ability to control how much space there is between paragraphs, other than by adding more newlines. You can't make the space whatever size you want like you could with paragraphs. Consider what you need and choose a course of action.

Personally, I'd use Notepad++ (or a similar editor), and do a "Find and Replace" for all regex (.+) to be replaced with <p>\1<\/p>

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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You can use simple search and replace as Niet the Dark Absol has suggested. Depending upon your Notepad++ version, the replace may require $0 to refer to source match. (Here is a more discussion about it, Notepad++ Regex replace - \1 doesn't work?).

Here is how you can search for the paragraph and replace with a paragraph tag.