Need help

[Kaje1234]

Maybe somebody can help me. I'm trying to submit my story and I need to italicize certain words. I added the html code, but it doesn't work properly. Here is what I did:

Jake just shook his head. <I>The mind of a pussy
hound. Thinking with his little head instead of
his big head.</I>

The problem is it ends up like this:

Jake just shook his head.
The mind of a pussy hound. Thinking with his little head instead of
his big head

The italicized words automatically end up below the non italicized words. I cant seem to get it to work. Any advice.

 

[RejectReality]

I had this problem in a few passages here and there. I've never really been able to figure out exactly what's causing it, other than it only seems to happen when you use it for character thoughts or other similar passages of more than one or two italicized words.

If I could ever find the common denominator, I'd pass along a report to Manu, but I'm stumped thusfar.

When it's happened to me, I've always ended up rewording the passage so having the character thought on its own line flows with the narrative somehow.

 

[Kaje1234]

That sucks. It's just so frustrating because I have a lot of internal dialogue/character thoughts. Guess I have a lot to change. Thanks.

 

[RejectReality]

One thing that seems to work fairly well is having the italic thoughts start a paragraph. The text processor doesn't seem to choke on that as badly as it does the passages in the middle of a sentence or at the end of one.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I think I had that problem last time and ended up just giving anything italicized its own paragraph.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

That sucks. It's just so frustrating because I have a lot of internal dialogue/character thoughts. Guess I have a lot to change. Thanks.

Copy the story to an .rtf document, apply actual italics, and submit that. It's nice to be able to see what you're actually submitting. Note: in one case for me, italics didn't come through correctly that way either.

 

[TxRad]

Try leaving out the space between the period and the first <.

I think it's reading that space as a break point for the next line.

Just a hunch.

 

[R. Richard]

try using [] jnstead of <>.

 

[sr71plt]

try using [] jnstead of <>.

I don't think that's going to work in the story file.

 

[TxRad]

I don't think that's going to work in the story file.

Nope, its not. [ /] is for the forum and < /> is for the story file.

 

[Hypoxia]

Try leaving out the space between the period and the first <.

I think it's reading that space as a break point for the next line.

Just a hunch.

I think this is the critical point. In all my text-mode HTML-tagged files I delimit tagged block with spaces or <CR>'s, like:

Blah blah blah. <x>Gorgonzola!</x> Bleh bleh bleh.

or

<y>Bluh bluh bluh.</y> Beulah! <z>Bloh bloh bloh.</z>​

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Try the lower case letters...

When in doubt <i>this is italic</i>.

 

[Kaje1234]

Try the lower case letters...

When in doubt <i>this is italic</i>.

It works. Thank you. Lowercase is the way to go.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

It works. Thank you. Lowercase is the way to go.

Your welcome. Good luck.