[thelist] Last line of paragraph has 'deeper' line break - why?

Kelvin Markham km at km.com.au
Thu Nov 22 00:34:25 CST 2001


Page produced in Frontpage 2000, browsers Netscape 4.7 and/or Explorer
5.5

normal old text entry in webpage looks like this; 
<p><font size="2" face="Arial">Devonport is gateway to Cradle Mountain
National Park and other wilderness attractions. Marketed in conjunction
with Devonport City, the Australian
Tourist Commission and the Cruising Down Under Association, a variety of
shore excursions have been developed to cater for the interests of
cruise ship passengers.</font>
</p>

as expected the page reads
"Devonport is gateway to Cradle Mountain National Park and other
wilderness attractions. Marketed in conjunction with Devonport City, the
Australian Tourist Commission and the Cruising Down Under Association, a
variety of shore excursions have been developed to cater for the
interests of cruise ship passengers."

BUT, the text is in a table that restricts the length of each line so
four line breaks occur, thus;
Devonport is gateway to Cradle Mountain National Park and other
wilderness attractions. Marketed in conjunction with Devonport
City, the Australian Tourist Commission and the Cruising Down
Under Association, a variety of shore excursions have been
developed to cater for the interests of cruise ship passengers.

the first three line breaks evenly space the lines from each other but
the last one is about 20% MORE! The variation is more pronounced when
the page is printed out. This seems to occur in lots of paras on all
sorts of sites and there's nothing in the html code that seems to cause
it.

The baffling thing is that some paragraphs on the same page still turn
out fine! If the problem occurred consistently there would be some ryme
or reason indicated but it's got me stumped, does anyone know how or why
this happens and is there a solution?

KM

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