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Paragraphs, line breaks and white space
Paragraphs, line breaks and white space

Learn how to create paragraphs, line breaks and white space

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Creating paragraphs and linebreaks

To create a paragraph, press shift+enter (in both theory and exercises). In the resulting HTML (which can be accessed by clicking the <> button on the text editor menu), you will see that the editor inserts paragraph (p) tags.

To create a linebreak, press enter (also both in theory and exercises).. In the resulting HTML, you will see that the editor inserts linebreak (br) tags.

Examples:

Inside LaTeX equations, you can also use linebreaks to format the source, but you can’t use paragraphs.

Too much white space after a LaTeX equation environment

If you create an exercise that includes a LaTeX environment on a separate line (using \[ … \]), you may have noticed that you can get too much white space above and below the equation. You can solve this by pressing shift+enter instead of enter after a display equation. In the editor, this will look like there is more space, but the student will not get the extra line break.

Example:

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