a formatting question - I should already know this

[cloudy]

If I want certain sentences in a story to be in italics, how do I do that when I submit it?

I feel really stupid for asking, but can't remember for the life of me.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I believe the code is <i> whatever you want </i>

But I could be wrong

 

[Svenskaflicka]

To be on the safe side, add a note and ask that the text between the tags is indeed written in italics.

 

[cloudy]

thanks, y'all.

 

[mismused]

What Colly said

thanks, y'all.

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Use that all the time, save that I use I instead of i, but understand that it makes no difference. Try it, then preview it.

mismused

 

[gauchecritic]

quote this to see, these are italics in posts and I believe it is the same for story submissions, seemed to work last time anyway

Gauche <--- bold, same principle (but not principal)

 

[Guest]

Good golly, I hate to disagree with the gauche critic but when I submit stories and use bold or italic it's the <'s and >'s that do it. I also state in the "note" that my text includes formatting code.

Perdita

 

[rgraham666]

Hmm. I just bold or italicize in my original document.

I make sure I save my story as a PC Word 6 document.

When I submit the story, using the button on the submission screen under the window you can paste the text of the story into, the italics etc. are transferred over.

 

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

I posted a story that had a great deal of italics and I just typed that portion in the italics and submitted already formated that way and it went through just fine.


Wicked

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I recently pasted a story with italics into the submission window and they were lost when the story was switched to Lit format.

Sometimes it seems to work, others not. I don't know a guaranteed way.

---dr.M.

 

[cantdog]

I believe Alex de Kok wrote the how-to article in the Resources section. It is <i>and then the text, then</i> , within the window in the submit a story page, just like it's the same with square brackets in the write-a-post page.

<b> and then </b> will give bold, but you won't want bold anyway. In either case,
capitals make no difference, and in either case, preview to be sure you didn't screw up.

cantdog

 

[sailorm72003]

I recently pasted a story with italics into the submission window and they were lost when the story was switched to Lit format.

Sometimes it seems to work, others not. I don't know a guaranteed way.

Dr M, perhaps this will help...

The <> form of bracket is for html, the display of the stories as pages on lit;

The [] is for vb code, which is what is used here in the forums.

So, use <> if you are going to submit in text, as opposed to a "formatted" document such as word, or other word processing output- the "code" for italics, bold, underline, etc are built into the document as you send it.

These are called "tags", each has the opening code inside a set of <> and a close to end the formatting, </> with a letter to signal what should happen-upper or lower case.

So, for italics, you can use:
<i>italics on a web page</i>

For underline, use:
<u>this would underline</u>

And for bold:
<b>this would display bold</b>

You can see the way the bold text for the forums area such as AH differs only in using the [] form instead of the <> as in a web page.

Hope this helps,
Sailor

edited to add:
If you copy formatted text from word into the text submission window, you will most likely lose your italics, bold, etc- as those documents use their own method to format the text, not the html tag system.

 

[SlickTony]

I recently pasted a story with italics into the submission window and they were lost when the story was switched to Lit format.

That happened to me with the first story I sent up. Afterwards, I made sure to put my html code in.