anybody else notice this?

[rexfelis]

I submitted a story in rich text format because it had special formatting. When it was put up, there were gaps in the lines, as though there were return characters where none had shown for me on my word processor. Is it because they were there and I just didn't see them, or is it because someone added them or something? Anybody know?

 

[KillerMuffin]

The stories are all posted in HTML, not RTF. If you have special formatting then use HTML to preserve it. The browser doesn't read word processor text or characters, it just does what it can with it.

If you emailed the story in, then I'm not sure why Laurel didn't the HTML squared away for you.

Here's my suggestion, paste your story into the submission box on the submit page and format it with HTML yourself. Then title it exactly the same as the badly formatted story and type ***EDIT*** next to the title. Put up the rest of it, key words, description, and category the same as the badly formatted one. Then submit it. It will replace the bad one in a couple of days.

If you don't know HTML then check out this site:

http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/

Some essential basics, and probably the only thing you're interested in anyway:

<B> this is for bold </B>
<I> this is for italics </I>
<U> this is for underline </U>

The first part <B> tells the page to start boldfaced type. </B> is the close command, it tells the page to stop boldfaced type.

Once you pasted it in the submission window, you can press Preview and see if you've got all your flags in the right places.

 

[rexfelis]

Hey, thanks!

 

[DRxBlue]

One more thought..

When you say "gaps in the lines" do you mean like a return in the middle of a sentence, or extra blank lines between paragraphs?

Sometimes, when a line ends EXACTLY at the right margin it will generate a return. Coupled with the return YOU would add at the end of a paragraph, you would see a gap.

KillerMuffin's suggestion is really good, the website is NEAT! (i gotta check it out myself)

Webmonkey also has some good HTML lessons at:

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/authoring/

Write On, King Cat!(if my Latin serves me)

 

[rexfelis]

Your meory serves you, Doctor.

I think it's the text editor I was writing my stories in that's causing this. I find that when I load another story, almost finished, that was written in the same text editor into one of my word processors, and change the margins, these "extra" return characters show up all over the place. It seems to only be from that one text editor.

Guess I'll have to start using a word processor. lol