Line breaks

Usually the WordPress Codex and support forums are brilliant….

(can you hear the ‘but’)

BUT….

I have just spent a fruitless time wading through threads about line breaks that all annunciate the issue but nothing solves it.

Including this priceless “what is a line break?” from someone who calls himself a tech ninja.

Now I gather than there are lots of workarounds for those of us that know html and css but (another one) the whole Point of WordPress is that I can design a site and allow a client to do their stuff. And telling them “go to the HTML editor, type in this gobbedlygeek and it will be OK” is seriously Not Professional.

So, come on, how do I, by modifying the php code of the editor change it so it does not strip out line breaks.

know as ‘soft returns’ ‘line breaks’ ‘linebreak’ ‘shift-return’

Which are used (are you listening ‘tech ninja’?) to present text in such a way as to avoid typographical errors such as orphans or ugly line breaks, to present semantic information in a more connected fashion and, most importantly, becasue people use them all the time.

so perhaps, with this topic, it could stay open until resolved?