Help with writing format.

[chewymin]

I don't honestly know if this is the right place to ask this question. I believe I found it somewhere on this site a while back but now I can't seem to bring it again.
I have posted a couple stories, when I copy them in to save as a draft, italicized sections are no longer italicized. I use that to show internal thoughts for characters.
The majority of my work is done on mobile, so for whatever reason I don't have the option to italicized words unless I'm in a word document.
Does anybody have a suggestion to help me distinguish internal thoughts without using italics?

 

[StillStunned]

Take a look at this essay by @FrancesScott: https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-format-a-story-with-html

For italics, you need the <i>italics</i> tag, or the <em>emphasis</em> tag.

 

[chewymin]

Take a look at this essay by @FrancesScott: https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-format-a-story-with-html

For italics, you need the <i>italics</i> tag, or the <em>emphasis</em> tag.

Thank you so much, I knew I had read about it somewhere on here! I appreciate your help.

 

[StillStunned]

No problem. I had a story early on where telepathy played a role, and I had the same problem trying to format the italics.

If you have other questions, check in the Authors' Hangout. In between the nonsense there are some pearls of wisdom.

 

[HarryHill]

I wrote a story called Chosen Mate that used a lot of internal conversations between characters using a - before the thought. Something similar may work for you. Good luck.

 

[FrancesScott]

Take a look at this essay by @FrancesScott: https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-format-a-story-with-html

For italics, you need the <i>italics</i> tag, or the <em>emphasis</em> tag.

How cool is this? Thank you.

 

[StillStunned]

How cool is this? Thank you.

I'll tell you something even cooler (for a given definition of cool): your essay is the only story I've ever favourited here on Lit, so I had the link at my fingertips.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Bear in mind you need the tags at the start and end of every paragraph, or you'll have a 3-para section with the first and last ending up italicised but not the middle one.

 

[StillStunned]

Bear in mind you need the tags at the start and end of every paragraph, or you'll have a 3-para section with the first and last ending up italicised but not the middle one.

Been there, done that.

 

[HarryHill]

Bear in mind you need the tags at the start and end of every paragraph, or you'll have a 3-para section with the first and last ending up italicised but not the middle one.

Has anyone tried dropping HTML tags in a story? not sure

 

[ElectricBlue]

Has anyone tried dropping HTML tags in a story? not sure

You can use html, yes. If you copy paste coded text into the submission form, then Preview, you'll see whether it's rendered correctly. If not, you can edit in the form's text box.

 

[TheLobster]

Has anyone tried dropping HTML tags in a story? not sure

The essay linked above does a good job describing which HTML tags work and how. Since CSS is not allowed, you need to mostly stick to early web era, deprecated tags like <center>.

 

[FrancesScott]

I'll tell you something even cooler (for a given definition of cool): your essay is the only story I've ever favourited here on Lit, so I had the link at my fingertips.

That’s even cooler!

 

[FrancesScott]

Has anyone tried dropping HTML tags in a story? not sure

That’s precisely what my article - linked to by @StillStunned above - is about.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

If I start viewing a story that has that kind of stuff, I'll most likely back out rather quickly.

 

[FrancesScott]

Bear in mind you need the tags at the start and end of every paragraph, or you'll have a 3-para section with the first and last ending up italicised but not the middle one.

I wrote you a note saying thank you for getting my Ice Cream story. That was very gratifying.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I don't honestly know if this is the right place to ask this question.

This is precisely the right place to ask this question - and any others you might have.

Welcome to the AH. Hope to see you again.

 

[iwatchus]

We only occasionally snarl and bite.

 

[Djmac1031]

With the main question already answered, I figured I'd add a tip I figured out the hard way:

If you have a large chunk of story you want in italics, make sure to bracket each new paragraph and not just the entire piece you want in italics.

Depending on where the page break falls once published on LE, if your italisized section is split up by pages, the latter half will lose the italics.

 

[HordHolm]

With the main question already answered, I figured I'd add a tip I figured out the hard way:

If you have a large chunk of story you want in italics, make sure to bracket each new paragraph and not just the entire piece you want in italics.

Depending on where the page break falls once published on LE, if your italisized section is split up by pages, the latter half will lose the italics.

Good tip.

 

[FrancesScott]

With the main question already answered, I figured I'd add a tip I figured out the hard way:

If you have a large chunk of story you want in italics, make sure to bracket each new paragraph and not just the entire piece you want in italics.

Depending on where the page break falls once published on LE, if your italisized section is split up by pages, the latter half will lose the italics.

I cover this in my essay. And @8letters helpfully looked into the code for me. It’s not just page breaks that are the issue, it’s any paragraph.

<em>Paragraph #1

Paragraph #2</em>

Appears all in italics in Preview, but will publish as:

Paragraph #1

Paragraph #2

regardless of page breaks.

We jointly surmised that what happens is that @Manu’s script closes the dangling <em> after the first paragraph and then either deletes the closing </em> or it just has no effect.

You have to write:

<em>Paragraph #1</em>

<em>Paragraph #2</em>

in all cases, even if the text is in the middle of a page.

 

[iwatchus]

I suspect the script does not close the <em> tag. I think it simply wraps each paragraph in a <P></P> pair. Your browser will treat any tag opened inside that as closed when it sees the </P>

 

[FrancesScott]

I suspect the script does not close the <em> tag. I think it simply wraps each paragraph in a <P></P> pair. Your browser will treat any tag opened inside that as closed when it sees the </P>

Could be. I should go check the code he dug out.

 

[FrancesScott]

I suspect the script does not close the <em> tag. I think it simply wraps each paragraph in a <P></P> pair. Your browser will treat any tag opened inside that as closed when it sees the </P>

No, it appears to add an </em>, rather than copying here, this is what @8letters found:

Post in thread 'Hard to ask this without appearing to brag… but has anyone got back-to-back Editor’s Choice tags before?'
https://forum.literotica.com/thread...r’s-choice-tags-before.1638153/post-101328171

 

[FrancesScott]

To be clear, @Manu added a </em> to my first paragraph, and deleted the </em> from the last paragraph.