Control Codes?

[WAT456]

Friends, a knowledge question from a noob editor. When an author wants to use italics or bold font (or, perhaps, other features...), do they just format the text and the formatting is picked up along with the submitted text, or do they have to use an html-like control coding, to activate them: <i>...</i>, for example. Any reference thread would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers, Tim

 

[RejectReality]

Depends upon how they're submitting.

You can upload a document with formatting in some specified formats, and Laurel will process the allowed formatting from that. This takes a little longer, and the author can't preview the story during submission.

Or, you can cut-n-paste the story, with the html codes for the formatting where needed. The author can then preview the story to make sure they haven't forgotten to close a tag or something, and give it one final read to check for other errors before clicking the submit button. The preview will display any formatting as it will appear in the posted version. The story needs no additional tinkering from Laurel, so it will go through a little more quickly.

 

[WAT456]

Text Formatting

I found this link, which gives a short instruction on using html tags to format text. Authors can save the reviewers time by doing this themselves, so whatever is pasted into the story text field will be what is seen by readers. Otherwise the reviewers have to take time to add this and the the publication will be delayed.

https://www.literotica.com/s/basic-text-formatting-101

Cheers, Tim

 

[Zeb_Carter]

You can also use <center> text </center> but you should beware that the bot scanning the text of tags will change that tag as it has been degraded in HTML 5.0 to a a complex tag that willl automatically place a hard line feed after the line with the tag that you can't change as the original text will still be the <center> tag. Just remove any paragraph marks between the line with the center tag and the next line after the centered text.

So, it will look like this...

<center><b> My Title Text </b></center>
<b>Chapter 1</b>

It will then preview like...

My Title Text ​

Chapter 1

 

[WAT456]

Thanks!

You can also use <center> text </center> but you should beware that the bot scanning the text of tags will change that tag as it has been degraded in HTML 5.0 to a a complex tag that willl automatically place a hard line feed after the line with the tag that you can't change as the original text will still be the <center> tag. Just remove any paragraph marks between the line with the center tag and the next line after the centered text.

So, it will look like this...

<center><b> My Title Text </b></center>
<b>Chapter 1</b>

It will then preview like...

My Title Text ​

Chapter 1

Thank you, Zeb!

 

[GroverLang]

I write using MS Word and use it without having to allow for any changes that might be made before publication because there never have been any. I was told .rtf would get the story published quicker so for a short time I converted each story to .rtf but it didn’t make any difference. So I changed back to MS Word. When the story did appear, in whichever format, nothing was changed. I don’t copy and paste I prefer to upload the file instead and it’s never been a problem.

 

[astuffedshirt_perv]

So I changed back to MS Word. When the story did appear, in whichever format, nothing was changed. I don’t copy and paste I prefer to upload the file instead and it’s never been a problem.

For me, MS Word files hold too much hidden information. I copy out of the doc and paste the text. YMMV