1268926 - Thunderbird 45.0 has killed the single line spacing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1250051

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[janoskund]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0
Build ID: 20160421124000

Steps to reproduce:

After updating to Thunderbird  45.0,  I wanted to write an e-mail in the usual single line spacing manner


Actual results:

Unfortunately Thunderbird 45.0 permitted only double line spacing as a permanent setting


Expected results:

Thunderbird 45.0 should have permitted also the single line spacing as a pemanent setting

Comment 1

[janoskund]

Could you please restore the option of single line spacing.
Thank you.

Comment 2

[rsx11m]

It's an obscure setting you'd have to toggle. Click on the [≡] button and select "Options" then go into the "Composition" tab. Uncheck there "When using paragraph format, the enter key creates a new paragraph." Even though the label doesn't say so, this will also switch the default composition style from "Paragraph" back to "Body Text" and thus insert regular line breaks with the Enter key.

Comment 4

[Axel Grude [:realRaven]]

(In reply to janoskund from comment #0)
> User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101
> Firefox/46.0
> Build ID: 20160421124000
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> After updating to Thunderbird  45.0,  I wanted to write an e-mail in the
> usual single line spacing manner
> 
> 
> Actual results:
> 
> Unfortunately Thunderbird 45.0 permitted only double line spacing as a
> permanent setting
> 
> 
> Expected results:
> 
> Thunderbird 45.0 should have permitted also the single line spacing as a
> pemanent setting

Apart from toggling the option back, you should try and use paragraph mode and not double <br> for getting a paragraph in html. <br> should not be abused as a layout tool unless you are in a really basic text mode. You can still get the occasional single line break (which is needed much less often) by hitting SHIFT+Enter. In my own usage I find I need i maybe 1 out of 4 times. More often I need a paragraph.