A technical question

[soflabbwlvr]

Does anyone know how to make symbols like "`" and "~" appear over letters in a document, rather than occupying a space? Do they show up on a Lit. page? I've just left them out in the past, but this time the meaning is completely different with and without. Any help?

 

[TxRad]

Does anyone know how to make symbols like "`" and "~" appear over letters in a document, rather than occupying a space? Do they show up on a Lit. page? I've just left them out in the past, but this time the meaning is completely different with and without. Any help?

Character map comes to mind in windblows.

 

[sr71plt]

I do them from the symbols list in my Word program. Admit that I don't go back to see if they've taken in the Literotica view, and probably some of them haven't. The marks in something like naïve and façade have in the past, though (and now I have an opportunity to see if they view on the forum).

 

[PennLady]

Does anyone know how to make symbols like "`" and "~" appear over letters in a document, rather than occupying a space? Do they show up on a Lit. page? I've just left them out in the past, but this time the meaning is completely different with and without. Any help?

In Word for Windows (not sure what versions this may apply to), you can do certain things like: Ctrl-tilde, then press "N", and you will get n with a tilde over it. It might be ctrl, shift, alt, or some combination of the mark and letter you're looking at. Once you know those, it's easier (to me) than going into Insert, Symbol, etc.

You could always make a macro to do it, as well.

Here's a link that might help. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/120085

If I come up with anything more helpful I'll post it.

I wish I could demonstrate myself here, but I'm using Firefox on a Mac and I haven't figured out all the tricks. In Word on the Mac, I can just hold down a letter like "n" or "e" and get options, but it doesn't work in Firefox.

 

[jdnunyer]

This website tells you how to produce various accents and diacritics in PC, Mac, and HTML. I think for Lit submissions, the best bet is HTML.

http://desktoppub.about.com/od/expertcharacters/a/Chart-Of-Common-Diacriticals-Type-Accent-Marks.htm

 

[PennLady]

I forgot to say that if you get those characters in Word -- via the insert option or whatever -- you can usually just copy them into the Lit submission box. At least, I've never had a problem with it.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

Thanks for all of the suggestions so far. Next writing session I'll experiment and see which works for me.

 

[RejectReality]

Just a word of warning, do NOT use any accented characters in your title if you can avoid it. I think I've seen a few that come through properly, but almost everything that uses accented characters ( or even smart quotes/curly apostrophes ) displays as a garble of numbers and letters in several places on the site wherever those characters occur -- including the New Stories list.

I can't say for sure, but I'm willing to bet that the description line is the same. I know I've seen author names with accents go wonky in the same places as well.

Several pages on Lit simply don't handle them well. Story text ( especially if you use the HTML special character code ) usually does okay, but anything else is a crapshoot.

 

[sr71plt]

I agree. I've had apostrophes go off in the title. Not always, just enough to irritate.

 

[Darkniciad]

A good rule of thumb is that if you can't type it from a standard keyboard without hitting the alt key, then don't use it in the title, description, author name, keywords, etc.

That includes cut-n-pasting anything from a text editing program. Those pages that fail don't like anything except bare-bones plain text, so any formatting done by the program is a potential problem.

Type them into the submission form fields.

 

[CDWilder]

Character map comes to mind in windblows.

Amen brotha!

I'm often using Character Map for extended characters. Just go to the Start Menu and type "character map", or Start > Run, "charmap" if earlier Wingdoze and there you go. In the lower corner you'll see a number, often it's as easy as holding ALT and typing the four digit number on the NUMERIC keypad, and the character will be inserted, so you don't need to open charmap every time.

HTH

 

[patientlee]

Alt Codes

As long as you have a number pad, use alt codes.

http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codealt.html

I teach French and Spanish. I know what I'm talking about.

(If you don't have a number pad, PM me, and I'll send you a handout on using the Windows shortcuts.)

Patientlee

 

[patientlee]

As long as you have a number pad, use alt codes.

http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codealt.html

I teach French and Spanish. I know what I'm talking about.

(If you don't have a number pad, PM me, and I'll send you a handout on using the Windows shortcuts.)

Patientlee

Word shortcuts, not Windows.

 

[sr71plt]

The question would be then whether the Lit. system would accept them.

 

[patientlee]

The question would be then whether the Lit. system would accept them.

They have. I've used accents in the text of more than one story.

I haven't used them in titles or descriptions. That has given me trouble in publishing to more than one educational site (a HUGE problem that I have wasted HOURS troubleshooting), so I make a rule of that now.

 

[patientlee]

They have. I've used accents in the text of more than one story.

I haven't used them in titles or descriptions. That has given me trouble in publishing to more than one educational site (a HUGE problem that I have wasted HOURS troubleshooting), so I make a rule of that now.

And by hours, I literally mean days. Accents are the bane of my existence.

 

[Tx Tall Tales]

I cut and paste from a webpage.

For instance Fiancee - I google fiancee, and paste: fiancée

Señor, Façade, Führer are other examples.

From my story Love Your Readers:

In Windows, ALT-0145 (on the number pad) results in a ‘, and ALT-0146 gives a ’.

ALT-0151 gives an em dash —

ALT-0133 gives an elipses as a single character …


As Darkniciad and Reject Reality both mentioned - Keep titles to simple text. Even Curly quotes get messed up. If you can't type it in a plain text editor, don't use it in the title.

 

[patientlee]

I cut and paste from a webpage.

For instance Fiancee - I google fiancee, and paste: fiancée

Señor, Façade, Führer are other examples.

From my story Love Your Readers:

In Windows, ALT-0145 (on the number pad) results in a ‘, and ALT-0146 gives a ’.

ALT-0151 gives an em dash —

ALT-0133 gives an elipses as a single character …


As Darkniciad and Reject Reality both mentioned - Keep titles to simple text. Even Curly quotes get messed up. If you can't type it in a plain text editor, don't use it in the title.

http://www.typeit.org

This is the site my students use. Should have said that first. I am CLEARLY not ready for the first day of school.

 

[Darkniciad]

As Darkniciad and Reject Reality both mentioned - Keep titles to simple text. Even Curly quotes get messed up. If you can't type it in a plain text editor, don't use it in the title.

The "and" is a bit misleading *laugh* One and the same. I've gotten to the point that I don't stop when I accidently begin a post in one of my alternate pen names and transfer it to my main "posting" account as Dark. Just not worth the trouble any more, and I use Chrome ( the browser RR is logged in under ) fairly regularly on Lit while I'm doing other things in IE.

 

[Tx Tall Tales]

The "and" is a bit misleading *laugh* One and the same. I've gotten to the point that I don't stop when I accidently begin a post in one of my alternate pen names and transfer it to my main "posting" account as Dark. Just not worth the trouble any more, and I use Chrome ( the browser RR is logged in under ) fairly regularly on Lit while I'm doing other things in IE.

I'm such a friggin' dolt. Like I didn't know that. I'm going to claim extenuating circumstances based on the other thread I'm in (FAWC) and where's it's been treading...

 

[WifeWatchman]

Google "character map" to get a list. Usually it's the "Alt" key and a letter to create the characters... IF the editing box you're using supports said exotic characters...

 

[horrorotica]

just do a search on letter accents and you'll find heaps of info. There are even sites that have pdf files you can download and keep for reference. It's not that hard.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

Thanks everyone, I got it worked out for now. The next step is to see if Lit. displays them, but that won't happen for a few weeks. Thanks for all the advice.