Board Thread:A new Tardis, at last/@comment-188432-20141212015511/@comment-188432-20150106185235

Lhikan634 wrote:
 * Paragraph spacing is inconsistent (see River Song). Some have no lines in between, others 1 line, and the majority 2 lines. The source uniformly uses 1 line between paragraphs. This especially affects the Undated/unchronicled events section, resulting in a lot of negative space.

Thanks for your detailed responses. I've passed a lot of your thoughts along.

On the specific issue of the River Song undated events section, I don't think it's quite what you think. I've moved the entire contents of this page to a test wiki, and the spacing works the same way.

The space between paragraphs (that is the space after a  ) — as well as the line-height itself — is greater in Article Prototype than Oasis. But I'm not seeing actual inconsistency in Prototype's vertical spacing, save between the first and second paragraph in some articles. (And even that's not inconsistent — it's regularly reproducible, and therefore a bug we can get our hands around.) So I'd quite disagree that it is generally true to say that some paragraphs have 2 lines between them and others have 1.

The issue really is that the section has an unusual number of single-sentence paragraphs in a row, thus naturally increasing the total amount of white space in that area, and creating the illusion of extra inter-paragraph space. This sort of writing is not encouraged around here; we'd much prefer to see "proper" paragraphs, and there's no particular reason why this section couldn't be rewritten into just a few paragraphs.