How do I add an empty line in my guide?

[forestfey]

I'm writing a step-by-step tutorial with screenshots and would like to have an empty line inbetween each step+image. How do I do that?
I already tried creating a list, which only gives me bullet points, but not an empty line after the according text passages. Markdown formatting doesn't work, and I can't find anything HERE useful on BBcode formatting of empty lines. Please help!

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Cant remember what its called but you set another segment saving each one and then naming a new one . Here mine back from 2019 on the right is each segment . I have an actual space at the end of each segment
Viewers use the links on the right to read the segment they are interested in. Maybe someone else has achieved it.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1231748150

[Callahan420]

Try [br ][/br] without the spaces and see if that works.

[zaphodikus]

Basically the clever people who write guides (for fun, and because they are damn experienced at ait) keep a lot of the secrets to themselves. This creates a learning curve wall. I dont know why, perhaps because they find the broken bbcode frustrating and helping newbies has no reward for them in it.

So here is a tip. there is a Jimbob guide writing guide, but it does not cover this one wierd trick
1. create a png image of a horiz line , make the line about 2000px by 10 pixels high, make the line very pale/transparent (3000 pixels wide is better for when 5k screens come)
2. save it and add it as a guide image
3. place it in your guide everywhere you want a horizontal element that forces a new line

You can make the line actually visible, like a HR tag would be. That gives you nice dividers: like here which looks like a filmstrip in this guide.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2829923346

I am liking to make a custom horizontal divider that matches each game I write for that carries some element of the game or style. good luck.
For example this one i made for a space themed game
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2847095138
Unfortunately Steam posts convert png to jpeg, but guides let you upload png's , that image comes from this guide if you want an original png example to steal. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2838468079

Yeah, why the HR bbcode tag was implemented so thoughtlessly and without regard for ever upgrading it is a puzzler, but this workaround does it for me.

[forestfey]

I tried [br ][/br], but it doesn't work!
I worked around it with the unicode symbol for a blank space inserted into the line, THAT worked. Thanks everyone!

[zaphodikus]

Oh. How many blanks did you need, or does just one force a reflow of the page to a new line for all widths?

[forestfey]

@zaphodikus what do you mean with "does just one force a reflow of the page to a new line for all widths?"?
I needed 2 empty lines...

[DROSIS]

press ENTER

[zaphodikus]

Oh. I'm describing how to stop tables and images from being inline or jumbling when the screen is narrow or wide without needing a HR bbcode.

You just wanted a hard carriage return. Your solution works for you, so your solution is perfectly valid in your case. And I am going to try use that hard space unicode trick myself thanks.

(Yeah, sorry I was solving a different issue as usual not reading the question.)

[forestfey]

@DROSIS funny, i did that, like, twice after each image, and yet it didn't register? I even tried markdown's double-space at the end of the line. Weird that. And funny you think I'm stupid enough to ask HERE, when the solution would be SO SIMPLE. Ah well, this is steam community... potatopotatopotato ;)

[DROSIS]

Originally posted by forestfey:

@DROSIS funny, i did that, like, twice after each image, and yet it didn't register? I even tried markdown's double-space at the end of the line. Weird that. And funny you think I'm stupid enough to ask HERE, when the solution would be SO SIMPLE. Ah well, this is steam community... potatopotatopotato ;)

calm down

[DROSIS]

I just dont understand if you want a line like _______________________ or the space between something

[forestfey]

don't sit in the tree with the other apes if you're afraid to get flinged some ♥♥♥♥ at back... I wanted an empty line, with nothing in it. And I found a solution for it myself...Thanks again everybody!

[zaphodikus]

Hey! That was not called for or helpful.
It's half the reason we cannot have nice things, ... not giving them out.

[forestfey]

@DROSIS don't forget to enter enter TWICE AFTER INSERTING AN IMAGE. Otherwise it's another, totally unrelated usecase. If you even know what that word means. Or bbcode. Or markdown.
Let the grown ups talk :P
-But I'm sure you will come up with some generic comeback, because you can't just leave it be like that.

For anyone still interested, and having overread it over the trolling: You can insert a unicode symbol for "blank space" into a line to get a paragraph after an image! (not giving a link to a unicode database, because that might alert the anti-spam-bots)
Enter only seems to work as long as it's not supposed to make an empty line (or 2) after an image.