bold and italics in stories

[tanyachrs]

I just had a story rejected because I used the greater and less than signs. I used them to insert bold and italics tags, which worked correctly in preview and which I've done before. I didn't use them expecting the signs themselves to appear. So now I'm confused. Do I just resubmit with a note explaining that or is there some other way I'm supposed to be inserting bold and italics tags?

 

[jehoram]

I just had a story rejected because I used the greater and less than signs. I used them to insert bold and italics tags, which worked correctly in preview and which I've done before. I didn't use them expecting the signs themselves to appear. So now I'm confused. Do I just resubmit with a note explaining that or is there some other way I'm supposed to be inserting bold and italics tags?

When I've wanted bold or italics, I submit the story in RTF (Rich Text Format). Never had any problems that way.

 

[sr71plt]

What was the exact wording of the rejection? The angle brackets are correct for depicting bold and italics, so the rejection may have been for something else.

 

[tanyachrs]

That was the wording. Guess I'd better check the story again. Maybe I didn't close a tag somewhere. It previewed ok.

lease do not use the characters < or > in your text unless you are using HTML. These characters are reserved by HTML--which runs the web pages--and neither they or anything between them will appear in the posted story. If you must have these characters in your story, then replace every "<" with "<" (without the quotes) and ">" with ">" (also without the quotes).

 

[sr71plt]

Yes, that could mean that slash marks were omitted to close the bold/italics and the system assumed you were trying to us French quote marks.

 

[tanyachrs]

My mistake. I did use greater than signs in there. Sorry.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Acceptable HTML tags....

<center> text </center>
<b> text </b>
<i> text </i>
<u> text </u>
<blockquote> text </blockquote> although there is some contention as to the validity of the use of blockquote. Sometimes Laurel lets it through and other times she doen't.