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8letters said:
1. You talked about tagging each paragraph. From what I've seen, the only time you lose the emphasis in the second paragraph is when Literotica puts a page break between the two paragraphs. As the previewer presents your story as one long page, you'll never catch there that you've lost the emphasis on the second page. So, if you put several paragraphs with italics at the start of your story, you should be okay not having <i> and </i> around each
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No, I’ve had the problem without page breaks. The thing I screwed up in my previous How To… is on page one and it still has the error (until an edit gets posted in the next few weeks). I understand that Manu took a look at the text and he didn’t correct this point.

But - as mentioned in the comments - if you don’t close an <em> then it applies to the end of the page.
 
FrancesScott said:
Based on my lengthy experience of <blockquote> here… aka one usage in one essay. It seems to italicize (as you mention) and to throw an extra line break before it.

<p>…</p> throws an extra line after it. So I always start the next paragraph on the next line. So:

<p>…</p>
Blah, blah, blah…

And not

<p>…</p>

Blah, blah, blah…
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Here's the HTML for that section of your story:
<p>Here goes nothing:</p>
<p></p>
<blockquote>
To be, or not to be, that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them. To die--to sleep, no more; and by a sleep to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; to sleep, perchance to dream--ay, there's the rub: for in that sleep of death what dreams may come.
</blockquote>
<p></p>
<p><u>Line Break</u></p>
 
8letters said:
This is getting into the weeds, but Literotica uses a program that strips out HTML and such from stories. I've seen inconsistent results with it over time. It used to let emdashes go by, but I've seen it convert emdashes into two dashes. Sometimes it does funky things.
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I’ll bow to your more extensive experience on the funky stuff.

I’ve found that if you use &mdash; it just gets published like that.
 
8letters said:
Here's the HTML for that section of your story:
<p>Here goes nothing:</p>
<p></p>
<blockquote>
To be, or not to be, that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them. To die--to sleep, no more; and by a sleep to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; to sleep, perchance to dream--ay, there's the rub: for in that sleep of death what dreams may come.
</blockquote>
<p></p>
<p><u>Line Break</u></p>
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Thanks for sharing.
 
mrs_mackenzie said:
Having a bookmarked reference for formatting is great, so thank you for putting that together.

The only thing missing (if this is even in the same area) for me is getting emojis to display in stories. As much as they're divisive, it can be done on Lit so it's nice to know how.
(Unless we're keeping it secret so people can't write entire stories made only of emojis. Which might make for an interesting authors' challenge...?)
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Emojis are just text (or at least Unicode). I’ve seen many people use them in stories, for example in text messages.
 
mrs_mackenzie said:
Having a bookmarked reference for formatting is great, so thank you for putting that together.

The only thing missing (if this is even in the same area) for me is getting emojis to display in stories. As much as they're divisive, it can be done on Lit so it's nice to know how.
(Unless we're keeping it secret so people can't write entire stories made only of emojis. Which might make for an interesting authors' challenge...?)
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This is from my own story, More Than Words. Stuff in <kbd>…</kbd> doesn’t render here in the forums, so I changed the relevant text to italics (in case it isn’t obvious out of context, Hailey is deaf).

Despite her wet fingers, she opened Note and typed, holding up the result for me to see.

Want to get a coffee?"

I nodded vigorously, and she typed some more.

There is a place down the street, can I finish my session?

I knew this one. I placed an index finger over my lips and moved it toward Hailey, getting a delighted grin. Again she typed:

Your accent sucks, but thanks for trying 😊

We both laughed, and Hailey gestured to the pool with her eyes. I did my, obviously lumpen, 'Sure' again and she dove in. Thinking I'd give her some space, I went and sat on a bench between the two changing room entrances, and tried to occupy myself with my phone.
 
FrancesScott said:
This is from my own story, More Than Words. Stuff in <kbd>…</kbd> doesn’t render here in the forums, so I changed the relevant text to italics (in case it isn’t obvious out of context, Hailey is deaf).

Despite her wet fingers, she opened Note and typed, holding up the result for me to see.

Want to get a coffee?"

I nodded vigorously, and she typed some more.

There is a place down the street, can I finish my session?

I knew this one. I placed an index finger over my lips and moved it toward Hailey, getting a delighted grin. Again she typed:

Your accent sucks, but thanks for trying 😊

We both laughed, and Hailey gestured to the pool with her eyes. I did my, obviously lumpen, 'Sure' again and she dove in. Thinking I'd give her some space, I went and sat on a bench between the two changing room entrances, and tried to occupy myself with my phone.
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I write on my phone, so I just entered 😊 like I might in a text message. There are emoji keyboards on PCs, and I assume also Macs. Or you can Google the emoji and copy paste.
 
8letters said:
1. You talked about tagging each paragraph. From what I've seen, the only time you lose the emphasis in the second paragraph is when Literotica puts a page break between the two paragraphs. As the previewer presents your story as one long page, you'll never catch there that you've lost the emphasis on the second page. So, if you put several paragraphs with italics at the start of your story, you should be okay not having <i> and </i> around each
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You need to close the <i> tag at the end of every paragraph you use it in. I have a story that didn't have the closing tags and it made everything after italic. It was sent back and I had to add the closing tags in.
 
^^ And this is why these 'tutorials' are flawed. Lit doesn't work consistently.

What you use to write and how you submit can also make a difference.
 
alohadave said:
You need to close the <i> tag at the end of every paragraph you use it in. I have a story that didn't have the closing tags and it made everything after italic. It was sent back and I had to add the closing tags in.
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You're agreeing with me. The OP in his article said that stories won't continue having italics after the first paragraph and you have to have an <i> at the start of each paragraph. I said that, in my experience, all text after an <i> tag will be in italics unless there's a page break, at which point it will be reset to plain text.

That being said, maybe the Literotica story processor now closes tags at the end of each paragraph, and my experience (and yours) is no longer relevant.

Edit: Looking at the OP's first "How To" article, apparently she intended for a six-paragraph Shakespeare quote to all be in italics. I am guessing she submitted the article with an opening EM tag at the start of the first paragraph and a close EM tag at the end of the paragraph six. What the published article has is that the first paragraph in the quote has an opening and closing EM tag, and there are no em tags until what looks like a section that was added by the Lit Editor.
 
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8letters said:
You're agreeing with me. The OP in his article said that stories won't continue having italics after the first paragraph and you have to have an <i> at the start of each paragraph. I said that, in my experience, all text after an <i> tag will be in italics unless there's a page break, at which point it will be reset to plain text.

That being said, maybe the Literotica story processor now closes tags at the end of each paragraph, and my experience (and yours) is no longer relevant.
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As you are on a computer that allows you to view source, take a look at:

https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-punctuate-dialogue

Scroll down to: Dialogue spanning more than one paragraph

I had an <em> before: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends,

but was stupid enough to not have the </em> until after: "Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'"

I.e. several paragraphs without either opening or closing tags.

You can see the result. And I’ve made this mistake before and ought to know better.

If the phenomenon is due to something else you can explain, then I’d be happy to learn about it.
 
FrancesScott said:
As you are on a computer that allows you to view source, take a look at:

https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-punctuate-dialogue

Scroll down to: Dialogue spanning more than one paragraph

I had an <em> before: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends,

but was stupid enough to not have the </em> until after: "Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'"

I.e. several paragraphs without either opening or closing tags.

You can see the result. And I’ve made this mistake before and ought to know better.

If the phenomenon is due to something else you can explain, then I’d be happy to learn about it.
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I added to my prior post:
>>>>>>>>
Looking at the OP's first "How To" article, apparently she intended for a six-paragraph Shakespeare quote to all be in italics. I am guessing she submitted the article with an opening EM tag at the start of the first paragraph and a close EM tag at the end of the paragraph six. What the published article has is that the first paragraph in the quote has an opening and closing EM tag, and there are no em tags until what looks like a section that was added by the Lit Editor.
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The HTML:
>>>>>>>>
<p>This might be some major speech by your protagonist at a critical juncture. It's all very Shakespearian and so [with adaptation and endless apologies]...</p>
<p><em>"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility: but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage.</em></p>
<p>"Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; let pry through the portage of the head like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it as fearfully as doth a galled rock o'erhang and jutty his confounded base, swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit to his full height.</p>
<p>"On, on, you noblest English. Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof! Fathers that, like so many Alexanders, have in these parts from morn till even fought and sheathed their swords for lack of argument.</p>
<p>"Dishonour not your mothers; now attest that those whom you call'd fathers did beget you. be copy now to men of grosser blood, and teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman, whose limbs were made in England, show us here the mettle of your pasture; let us swear that you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not.</p>
<p>"For there is none of you so mean and base, that hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. The game's afoot: follow your spirit, and upon this charge...</p>
<p>"Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'"</p>
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Again, this is different than my prior experience and that of alohadave. I can see why Literotica would change their story processor to put closing tags on every paragraph, and it's good to know that this change has been implemented.
 
8letters said:
Again, this is different than my prior experience and that of alohadave. I can see why Literotica would change their story processor to put closing tags on every paragraph, and it's good to know that this change has been implemented.
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It would make sense that they close the first paragraph with an </em>, and then strip out my dangling </em> later. That’s a perfect explanation of what I’ve had happen to me. Thanks for taking the time to look into it.
 
FrancesScott said:
You can see the result. And I’ve made this mistake before and ought to know better.
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Did you have the closing </em>, after the entire speech, in your submitted text? Because if you did, then this is evidence that Lit's processing sanitizes open/closed tags.

In the HTML source for your article, we have:
HTML: 
<p><em>"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility: but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage.</em></p>

This is the first paragraph of the speech. Note that the "missing" </em> is there, even though you haven't added it in the submission text. But there is no other </em> in the whole quote; it ends simply with:
HTML: 
<p>"Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'"</p>

So if that </em> was there when you submitted the text, it has been stripped out during processing.

But regardless, it's pretty clear that if you want to emphasize or otherwise format large chunks of text, you need to be super mindful of the Lit's paragraph breaking routine. Surround every paragraph with your chosen tags, maybe even every line if you're doing <br> tricks.
 
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