Found a cool tool for formatting submissions!

[MillieDynamite]

Ha, ha, he's 68 and very smart! After all, he was intelligent enough to adopt me, what further proof is necessary, hum?

 

[GrantBricksly]

Young-un's! I started on weird homemade versions of Basic - VIC Basic on the VIC20 and the Commodore 64, and TS Basic on the Timex Sinclair T/S1000. It wasn't an operating system, it was a programming language, there really wasn't an operating system available yet, so when DOS came out it was an amazing leap forward, and my entry into the world of windows was Windows 1.4 which I think only the military had at the time.

Ha! Yes. Basic was my first intro into programming. Still a favorite of mine actually. I think I still have some old discs around somewhere with some old programs and games that I wrote in Basic back in the day. My first computer was a commodore 64. It's in storage, but I still have it.

 

[Duleigh]

Ha! Yes. Basic was my first intro into programming. Still a favorite of mine actually. I think I still have some old discs around somewhere with some old programs and games that I wrote in Basic back in the day. My first computer was a commodore 64. It's in storage, but I still have it.

I still have my VIC-20, or I should say, my ex-wife has it. I wish I knew what happened to that T/S1000, that thing was far ahead of its time

 

[Kumquatqueen]

yea, I haven't run windows regularly since XP. But if we are talking about missing things.....I miss windows 3.0 (yes, I know I am dating myself here...) That was back before windows became the monstrosity it is today. It was not an Operating system, it was merely a Platform. DOS was the way of the world back then, and it was wonderful...lol (God I feel old.....)

I remember using Windows NT/3.0 and returning to the much-better OS/2, thinking this MS shit would never catch on, even if the clueless did want these modern WIMP environments because they couldn't cope with a proper command line.

I was young and naïve...

 

[Bramblethorn]

I don't understand what the issue is here, italicized, bolded, and underlined text in a .doc file come out italicized, bolded, and underlined in the story that the reader sees without all the work of adding HTML codes

Mostly, but occasionally it breaks. I'm fussy so I prefer to do the coding at my end and check that it displays properly in preview.

 

[SyleusSnow]

Instead of laborious search and replace, try Textfixer's free online convertor at https://www.textfixer.com/html/convert-word-to-html.php

Or if you're semi-tech savvy, there's a macro you can add to MS Word to convert bold, italic, etc to HTML tags in one go. Details are on my blog: https://syleussnow.wordpress.com/2022/01/21/ms-word-to-html-for-literotica/

 

[nice90sguy]

Does textfixer handle images? Illustrated stories are my big problem at the moment

 

[PennameWombat]

DOS is what PCs ran on before Windows existed, back in the 1980s.....Disc Operating System.

Young-un's! I started on weird homemade versions of Basic - VIC Basic on the VIC20 and the Commodore 64, and TS Basic on the Timex Sinclair T/S1000. It wasn't an operating system, it was a programming language, there really wasn't an operating system available yet, so when DOS came out it was an amazing leap forward, and my entry into the world of windows was Windows 1.4 which I think only the military had at the time.

I asked my daddy, and he said it is the Disk Operating System, which is old, so old it's antique, like him.

The whole saga around how precisely DOS, and more specifically ‘IBM PC DOS’, (later MS DOS) became the standard for PCs is, uh, interesting. But it’s enough to say that it sent Bill Gates and Paul Allen to their current position (well, Gates still one of the richest men alive, Allen is no longer counted among such being dead) - Microsoft had been engaged originally to only supply their BASIC interpreter and some other tools for IBM’s PC. A ‘miss’ between Gary Kildall’s DRI with their CP/M operating system and IBM led the latter to source an OS as well from Gates (who in turn acquired DOS from someone else). It wasn’t like Kildall died in poverty… but nothing like Gates and Allen.

And the modern world began to take shape. Neither IBM’s PCs nor Microsoft’s DOS were ‘the best’, but suddenly they were on business desks all over the world… so… they were the Standard.

And if you want more strangeness in this saga… speaking of his death, read up on Kildall’s demise in 1994.

 

[PennameWombat]

I'm right there with you.

I have heard some say that using the "Cut-and-paste" approach on the submissions page gets stories posted sooner, but having tried both, I haven't witnessed it myself.

I also find the review process tedious due to me typically submitting longer stories. Writing and formatting in Word and then submitting as a .doc file meets all my needs, including embedding hyperlinks within the text of the story.

I do the same. I submit the .doc file (I edit in Google Docs, then use Libre Office to do final proof and creation of the .doc file.) I simply format the .doc file using H3 (section headers), and italics or bold where needed. I’ve also created the occasional numbered list and it was converted without any issues.

I’ve never noticed any specific delay to posting using this method. I’ve had the occasional file move from me submitting to posting within 24 hours, usually contest entries. If text submission moves faster, I’ve no idea how. Normally it’s about 2-3 days, which seems the average (had a couple of outliers, one I submitted just as Lit did its last major site update , took near ten days, but based on AH postings, plenty of submissions got caught up at that time.)

The only downside might be the lack of a preview capability. But, by avoiding the need to muck with HTML I don’t mind that too much. So, if you HAVE your file in .doc format, why the hell are you needing to revert back?

 

[BobbyBrandt]

I do the same. I submit the .doc file (I edit in Google Docs, then use Libre Office to do final proof and creation of the .doc file.) I simply format the .doc file using H3 (section headers), and italics or bold where needed. I’ve also created the occasional numbered list and it was converted without any issues.

I’ve never noticed any specific delay to posting using this method. I’ve had the occasional file move from me submitting to posting within 24 hours, usually contest entries. If text submission moves faster, I’ve no idea how. Normally it’s about 2-3 days, which seems the average (had a couple of outliers, one I submitted just as Lit did its last major site update , took near ten days, but based on AH postings, plenty of submissions got caught up at that time.)

The only downside might be the lack of a preview capability. But, by avoiding the need to muck with HTML I don’t mind that too much. So, if you HAVE your file in .doc format, why the hell are you needing to revert back?

I use the H3 heading for section and chapter breaks too. I would like to find a way to get them centered using it, but that doesn't appear supported by Literotica.

There are so many tools and options available to review (preview) .doc file contents that I am usually pretty confident with just uploading the finished product.

 

[SyleusSnow]

Does textfixer handle images? Illustrated stories are my big problem at the moment

No. It puts in appropriate placeholder tags, but of course has nowhere to link images from.

 

[Duleigh]

And if you want more strangeness in this saga… speaking of his death, read up on Kildall’s demise in 1994.

I was in Korea at the time, I've got witnesses

 

[Duleigh]

I use the H3 heading for section and chapter breaks too. I would like to find a way to get them centered using it, but that doesn't appear supported by Literotica.

There are so many tools and options available to review (preview) .doc file contents that I am usually pretty confident with just uploading the finished product.

To center - in your word document highlight the paragraph and hit Ctrl + E. the formatting will carry over to Lit. It's worked for me quite well 100% of the time I used it

 

[BobbyBrandt]

To center - in your word document highlight the paragraph and hit Ctrl + E. the formatting will carry over to Lit. It's worked for me quite well 100% of the time I used it

Does that work with the H3 header?

 

[Duleigh]

Does that work with the H3 header?

I've never tried an H3 header. Bold Center is really all I've ever used, until Lauren started chopping the first line off my stories

 

[BobbyBrandt]

I've never tried an H3 header. Bold Center is really all I've ever used, until Lauren started chopping the first line off my stories

I'll try it and let you know what happens. Thanks

 

[MillieDynamite]

The whole saga around how precisely DOS, and more specifically ‘IBM PC DOS’, (later MS DOS) became the standard for PCs is, uh, interesting. But it’s enough to say that it sent Bill Gates and Paul Allen to their current position (well, Gates still one of the richest men alive, Allen is no longer counted among such being dead) - Microsoft had been engaged originally to only supply their BASIC interpreter and some other tools for IBM’s PC. A ‘miss’ between Gary Kildall’s DRI with their CP/M operating system and IBM led the latter to source an OS as well from Gates (who in turn acquired DOS from someone else). It wasn’t like Kildall died in poverty… but nothing like Gates and Allen.

And the modern world began to take shape. Neither IBM’s PCs nor Microsoft’s DOS were ‘the best’, but suddenly they were on business desks all over the world… so… they were the Standard.

And if you want more strangeness in this saga… speaking of his death, read up on Kildall’s demise in 1994.

My eyes glazed over while reading that, just a little. LOL