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TheBlackFeather

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For some reason this keeps happening to any .rtf file that I submit. The first chunk of the story is fine, then it begins to have center alignment, usually after a chapter break.

Now I've removed all indentions from the file, everything is set to left, but somehow it keeps ending up like this.

What's goin' on?!

TBF
 
You might want to try copy/pasting your story directly into the submission form instead. That way you can check the formatting when you preview. It'll post faster, too. :)
 
You also need to put a note in the Editor's box telling them to maintian the formatting. Frankly, I never send stories by email. It seems to get screwed up a lot.
 
Paste it into the text box for the submission, or just save it to a plain .txt file. Either one posts a lot quicker, and you can preview them with all the formatting before hitting submit.

You can go through and add your tags for the formatting in raw code, and they'll come out in the preview fine, without slowing down your submission.

<b>bold text</b> | <i>italic text</i> <blockquote> </blockquote> also works. I'm not sure about <center> I think that might mess with Lit's formatting and get stripped.
 
Darkniciad said:
Paste it into the text box for the submission, or just save it to a plain .txt file. Either one posts a lot quicker, and you can preview them with all the formatting before hitting submit.

You can go through and add your tags for the formatting in raw code, and they'll come out in the preview fine, without slowing down your submission.

<b>bold text</b> | <i>italic text</i> <blockquote> </blockquote> also works. I'm not sure about <center> I think that might mess with Lit's formatting and get stripped.
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Yep, <center> works.
 
Jenny_Jackson said:
You also need to put a note in the Editor's box telling them to maintian the formatting. Frankly, I never send stories by email. It seems to get screwed up a lot.
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<sudden memory of the old days where every story was sent by e-mail and Laurel wrote your story-blurbs for you>

By god, hasn't Lit grown?

The Earl
 
TheEarl said:
<sudden memory of the old days where every story was sent by e-mail and Laurel wrote your story-blurbs for you>

By god, hasn't Lit grown?

The Earl
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Wow - was it really like that?
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Vermilion said:
Wow - was it really like that?
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That would've been about 6 or 7 years ago, back when I wrote my very first Lit story (under an uncomfortably-close-to-RL pseudonym). Of course, I was 18 at the time. And was for the next two and a half years.

The Earl
 
TheEarl said:
That would've been about 6 or 7 years ago, back when I wrote my very first Lit story (under an uncomfortably-close-to-RL pseudonym). Of course, I was 18 at the time. And was for the next two and a half years.

The Earl
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<snigger>
You know how the US dress sizes are numbered lower than the UK ones? Well it works that way with ages too. I find that, legally, 18 over here = 20 over there... :)

when I was *18* I was too busy having cyber sex with unsuitable strangers over the net to think of writing about it...

Am impressed at how long you've been here.

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Wow! And at just going on 4 years, I feel like I've been here 4-ever.

What everyone else said. Cut & paste is best. Your Microsoft Word formatting just gets in the way.
 
I'm doing cut and paste myself these days.

I format the story, adding the <i> <b> etc. and lines between the paragraphs myself.

I found that there were just too many 'surprises' the other way.
 
TheEarl said:
That would've been about 6 or 7 years ago, back when I wrote my very first Lit story (under an uncomfortably-close-to-RL pseudonym). Of course, I was 18 at the time. And was for the next two and a half years.

The Earl
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The Earl: So was it the pseudonym that caused you to remain 18 for the next two and a half years, or the Lit story?
 
SlickTony said:
What everyone else said. Cut & paste is best. Your Microsoft Word formatting just gets in the way.
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MS Word formatting isn't realy the problem -- stories submitted in MS Word or WordPad's .DOC format usually don't have any problems, but I've seen several complaints about .RTF format files causing problems.

If you change the extension of an RTF file to TXT or open it with Notepad (or other plain text editor) you'll see all of the formatting garbage that is in a RTF file. All of those formating codes in a RTF file apparently cause problems for Lit's conversion scripts.

Plain text with embedded HTML tags for permitted formatting, is the best choice for submissions -- either as a file or as C&P into the submission form. The next best choice is MS Word's . DOC format.

Given the number of complaints I see about formatting problems I would NOT consider submitting anything in RTF -- here or anywhere else where you have some other choice.
 
I only do .doc files. Haven't had any problems with formatting (except for the occasional extra line of dead space here and there) and all I have to do is upload from my floppy.
 
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