Centering without paragraph gaps on a multi-line title?

[SerenaSteeleMonroe]

Can someone tell me how to center a title where the lines are close together?

Love and Loyalty
in a
Tangled BNWO Triangle
​

Doctor of type, wherever and whoever you are, HELP ME.

 

[TheLobster]

<center><strong>Love and Loyalty</strong><br><strong>in a</strong><br><strong>Tangled BNWO Triangle</strong></center>

<strong> tags are for bold typeface; they are optional. What matters are the <br> ones, putting it all in one line, and of course the <center> tag for alignment.

 

[SerenaSteeleMonroe]

I upload in the .RTF file format will that still work?

<strong> tags are for bold typeface; they are optional. What matters are the <br> ones, putting it all in one line, and of course the <center> tag for alignment.

 

[onehitwanda]

Lit's proofing and publishing system mangles formatting. It will look fine in preview and will be glorped when live.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I upload in the .RTF file format will that still work?

Copy paste into the submission box and hit Preview. That should display the text as it will display when it's published.

Years ago I submitted .rtf and subsequently .txt and in both cases, following site upgrades, both messed up formatting. I don't know why. The last five years, though, I've used the submission box, and with small amounts of html, I've never had format issues.

Don't worry about format, would my suggestion. Words tell the story, not layout.

 

[SerenaSteeleMonroe]

Well, so far, my .RTFs have been perfect. Other than gapping out titles.

 

[Bramblethorn]

RTF is fine for most submissions, but if you want to micromanage style like this, you're better off coding the HTML yourself and pasting it into the text box as described above.

(Or saying "that sounds way too annoying, I don't care that much about exactly how my title appears". That's valid too.)

 

[SerenaSteeleMonroe]

RTF is fine for most submissions, but if you want to micromanage style like this, you're better off coding the HTML yourself and pasting it into the text box as described above.

(Or saying "that sounds way too annoying, I don't care that much about exactly how my title appears". That's valid too.)

That sounds like where I'm heading.

 

[TheLobster]

I upload in the .RTF file format will that still work?

No, this is for direct submissions, where you put the story content in the large textbox on the form.

If you upload an .rtf or .doc or whatever, then presumably you could just use the formatting options of the text editor you created the file in. I've never tried that, though, so can't tell if it works for manual line breaks and centering.

 

[GrushaVashnadze]

<br>

Ooh! I never knew about this option. Every line of my centred text has a space after it, and I never knew how to close the gap. So, thanks for the tip: I will try it out!

 

[TheLobster]

Ooh! I never knew about this option. Every line of my centred text has a space after it, and I never knew how to close the gap. So, thanks for the tip: I will try it out!

Just make sure you don’t put in any actual line breaks when using <br>. Lit may turn newline characters into paragraph separators, which is why you see those gaps.

 

[MetaBob]

I tried uploading .rtf and had trouble getting it to work reliably. I don't use MS Word. For a while I composed in .txt and copied and pasted into Lit's preview window. I've since switched to Apple Pages, but continue to Select All, Copy, and Paste my source text into the preview window rather than trying to upload.

I use several markdown tags, including <b>, <i>, <br> (which is the previously-supplied answer to your original question), and <center>. Laurel doesn't like <b>, sometimes changing it to <i>, but seems to have given up doing so for my submissions, if not for others. I don't rely on any other word processor formatting, because I know it might not work.

 

[MetaBob]

Ooh! I never knew about this option. Every line of my centred text has a space after it, and I never knew how to close the gap. So, thanks for the tip: I will try it out!

I found out about <br>when trying to include snippets of song lyrics or multi-line quotes from other works, where it doesn't make sense to have a blank line separating each line of text. <br> works perfectly for that. Example:

<i>I met a woman, she had a mouth like yours<br>She knew your life, she knew your devils and your deeds<br>She said "Go to him, stay with him if you can<br>But be prepared to bleed."</i>

The version of the song I cite here (Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You") is Diana Krall's, if you're interested. I credit Joni (as well as each other songwriter whose work I excerpt) at the end of the chapter, of course.