Fonts within a story? Only Italics? or more options?

[seXenon]

I'm writing a story (magical world), and I'd like to make all the magical spells be in a "different" font than the text. I'm wondering if that is possible.

I know that Italics exists. But I'm using that for quotes and sections of the magical spell books.

I'm wondering if something like "smallcaps" or something else exists.

I'm hoping to make it clearer the spells from the book from the dialog, and reduce the number of quotes and double quotes and embedded quotes.

 

[Todger65]

Unless it has been changed, and I don’t think it has, then it is italics and bold only. You either have to add the tags yourself <I></I> <b></b> or use the word processor to type them and add a note when submitting it that it contains altered fonts and Laurel will add them, but that takes longer to publish.

 

[KeithD]

Nope, don't think so (use of different fonts in texts).

 

[Bramblethorn]

I'm writing a story (magical world), and I'd like to make all the magical spells be in a "different" font than the text. I'm wondering if that is possible.

I know that Italics exists. But I'm using that for quotes and sections of the magical spell books.

I'm wondering if something like "smallcaps" or something else exists.

I'm hoping to make it clearer the spells from the book from the dialog, and reduce the number of quotes and double quotes and embedded quotes.

In general Literotica doesn't allow you to change the font, but you might not need to.

Literotica supports Unicode, which gives you access to a vast assortment of fancy characters including small-caps versions for 25/26 English letters (the missing one being X). I tried pasting these into the new story form and they looked fine in preview, although that's not always a guarantee:

ᴀ ʙ ᴄ ᴅ ᴇ ꜰ ɢ ʜ ɪ ᴊ ᴋ ʟ ᴍ ɴ ᴏ ᴘ ꞯ ʀ ꜱ ᴛ ᴜ ᴠ ᴡ ʏ ᴢ

Be aware that these Unicode characters aren't really intended as a formatting option - they're there because of their use in things like phonetic alphabets. Some technology e.g. screen readers might not handle them as expected.

It's also possible to do a "code" styling on text (see the chat excerpts my story "Loss Function" for an example) but that's probably not the look you're after.

That said, unless you really really think the story needs formatting to distinguish the spells from the rest, it may be better to keep it simple.

 

[LexxRuthless]

Keep in mind that many readers now access the site through a Kindle reader or other mobile device, and many of those do not display even your italics. You may not want to expend all that extra effort for an appearance that will simply be wasted on a substantial portion of your audience.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Keep in mind that many readers now access the site through a Kindle reader or other mobile device, and many of those do not display even your italics. You may not want to expend all that extra effort for an appearance that will simply be wasted on a substantial portion of your audience.

Do Kindle readers really not do italics? I thought that was pretty standard these days, with the Literotica mobile app being an exception.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Do Kindle readers really not do italics? I thought that was pretty standard these days, with the Literotica mobile app being an exception.

My Kindle Fire can handle most fonts and font sizes. Older ones might not - those that were designed around early generation e-pubs, where the limitation was more the book than the reader.