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Comment author: jimrandomh 07 August 2014 05:40:38PM 2 points [-]

Your web browser's copy-paste is broken: you wanted "paste and match style" (ctrl+shift+V) rather than "paste" (ctrl+V).

Comment author: Stefan_Schubert 07 August 2014 05:54:28PM 2 points [-]

Thanks. I tried to fix it but using your advice but it doesn't seem to work. What does it look like for you?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 07 August 2014 08:58:37PM *  3 points [-]

Fixed. (If you open HTML view, you could see the code that overrides default style settings.)

Comment author: Stefan_Schubert 07 August 2014 10:48:15PM 2 points [-]

Many thanks. I'll just type directly on LW next time to avoid problems.

Comment author: VAuroch 09 August 2014 11:27:46PM *  1 point [-]

Better is to paste into a plaintext editor(Notepad etc.), then copy from there to LW; this removes all formatting.

Comment author: Lumifer 07 August 2014 08:13:55PM 2 points [-]

Basically, you're pasting in text with HTML tags which force a particular style.

Specifically, your paragraphs look like this:

<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">On questions of simple fact (for example, whether Earthly life arose by natural selection)
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