Hard Returns

[Green_Knight]

I'll again point out that maybe half of LIT readers use the Android app which does NOT support formatting -- no bolds, italics, underlines, centers, or blockquotes, nothing but plain text. Your efforts will be wasted on much of your audience.

That's a bit like saying to a film-maker, don't worry too much about the quality – lots of people will be watching in on a 5-inch smartphone screen.

 

[Hypoxia]

That's a bit like saying to a film-maker, don't worry too much about the quality – lots of people will be watching in on a 5-inch smartphone screen.

Was a time when "high-fidelity" was a craze, with wonks blowing vast sums on superb amps, monster woofers, zero-g carts, etc. But smart commercial music producers mixed their stuff to sound good on 2-inch scratchy speakers in tiny (and tinny) cheap transistor radios and blown-out car consoles. Sure, it also sounded good on such costly nerdy super-systems (when they deigned to play it) but that was a by-product.

Quality *is* important -- but how much of your audience will notice the frills? Make it as good a possible for the low end; the high-end will still be able to read it. Clarity is the key IMHO.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Zeb, if you change the spacing after: to 12pt you only have to put in a single space between paragraphs.

If you do that and copy and paste into the text box the space after is lost making your story a wall of text.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

When you copy/paste the text into the text box of your submission, you can preview the end result before submitting it. To see if everything is up to your liking.

But with .doc/.docx you can't

Also I've never had problems with .docx format. It's basically not that different from .doc to begin with, as long as you don't use formilas and images (and stuff!), witch you don't do anyway on LE.

A .docx file is very different from a .doc file. A .docx file is a modified XML file. A .doc file is...well it's a .doc file.

 

[CarlusMagnus]

A .docx file is very different from a .doc file. A .docx file is a modified XML file. A .doc file is...well it's a .doc file.

Thirty posts on hard returns?

And I always thought that a hard return was getting shot back at.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Thirty posts on hard returns?

And I always thought that a hard return was getting shot back at.

Or a punch in the face.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Do you realize that it is a bad habit of using word like this. Instead of using proper styles with properly set up inter paragraph spacings, you create an informational garbage in your text.

Really? I've had no complaint from anyone. All my for pay stories use the exact same paragraph format and they all turn out just fine at Smashwords and Amazon.

So, I use Word as a word processor, not a page layout program, as I'm not creating specialized documents for print, but words for eBooks.

 

[My I]

A hard return is when you insult someone during a "peaceful" protest (soft attack) and they knock half a dozen of your teeth out for it ( hard return).

 

[uksnowy]

OK thanks, we are not expert at text and all this techie stuff, but will try and fix. Thanks again Bramblethorn and Electricblue66. I think I may have just clicked somewhere to upset the most recent text.
I don't copy from emails for use in Lit.