So, in my mind, the ideal story format for online writing is left-aligned paragraphs with a space in between each.  Having putzed around the internets for a while, I'd say this seems to genuinely be the most readable way to look at stuff.

However, I do all my writing in Microsoft word, with tabbed paragraphs, like a print document, no space between paragraphs.  Partially out of habit, partially because I do a lot of academic writing and it just looks better that way when writing something that's going to be printed out or otherwise published.  The (admittedly very nice) Advanced Editor here can only handle about half of that.

So when I throw stuff up on this forum, I either have to do a ton of little edits on my lonesome, or find a way to cut & paste that both changes the paragraph format and preserves the text format of italics & etc.  My current solution:  the publishing thingamabob at fanfiction.net is pretty awesome.  I have an account there where I write stuff that is not mpreg.  So what I've been doing is copying what I write, pasting it into a temporary document there, and saving it.  It translates all of the paragraphs into a more readable format while keeping all of my style choices.  Then, after the document has been saved and reformatted, I copy the text and post it here. 

This works, I think, pretty well.  But I feel like I must be missing something obvious - like there's an easier way to do this that I'm not thinking of.  Now, some authors here don't mess with format much, but some seem to use/need the same kind of thing I do, so I was wondering how other people deal with the same issue.  Or am I the only one who grumbles about this?