Formatting question, has anyone heard of this?

[lovecraft68]

I just set up on All Romance and trying to upload a book. They have about 10 formats you can upload into and I have a cheat type formatting site that you dump your doc into and it converts for you.

However I am getting am error message that for PRC (kindle) and PDF. I am not allowed to have any punctuation in the document in order to upload it.

so first off has anyone ever heard of this? I'll admit I am not "techy" in anyway, but how the hell do you submit a book with no punctuation?

Second if that's how it would have to be done how would I remove it? Go into find and put in every punctuation mark and remove them one at a time?

I could find no "help" button on the page so scratching my head at the moment.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Could it be punctuation in the file title?

The fastest way to remove all instances of something-- which I hope is not the case-- is to use search and replace, leaving the 'replace with' field empty. Make sure it is really empty, no invisible spaces or anything...

 

[lovecraft68]

Could it be punctuation in the file title?

The fastest way to remove all instances of something-- which I hope is not the case-- is to use search and replace, leaving the 'replace with' field empty. Make sure it is really empty, no invisible spaces or anything...

That was my first thought, but there is none.

What's confusing is I started on a very small and fairly new site called "Erotic Escapes" and they have similar requirements. I uploaded the same docs to PDF and Mobi there with no issue.

Beyond the hassle of removing punctuation I just want to know what the hell the thing would read like? One big wall of text?

 

[Stella_Omega]

yeah it would look like something I would delete.

I don't get it!

 

[NaokoSmith]

If there's no help or contact for the site managers, is there any means of contacting another author on the site and asking them?

 

[Weird Harold]

That was my first thought, but there is none.

I've had various programs reject file names for "punctuation"--eg Illegal characters--when there is no visible reason for the filename to be rejected. The problem usually occurs when I C&P the filename and manually typing the name usually corrects the problem.

 

[slyc_willie]

I've had various programs reject file names for "punctuation"--eg Illegal characters--when there is no visible reason for the filename to be rejected. The problem usually occurs when I C&P the filename and manually typing the name usually corrects the problem.

Also, some programs read false spaces as characters. This is something I've learned through the various computer courses I've been taking. False spaces can occur before or after a file name, and aren't normally visible. If you highlight the filename and manually retype it, that might just fix the issue.