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[ElectricBlue]

IN ADDITION to four songs, yeah, that would've been nice. "Blockquote" it is, for me even if not for all, in future.

BOLD just for you, eb. Is it necessary? You tell.

Caps and bold, and I get dismissed with lower case but underlined? I see what's going on here!

But look at all the extra key strokes. It's all too much effort, and they're still only words .

Colour is, by the way, possible. I've seen a few stories with pretty colours littered through (glittered through?). It was like reading a kaleidoscope, so I gave up.

 

[MetaBob]

Caps and bold, and I get dismissed with lower case but underlined?

That's a hyperlink. I didn't try to control its appearance. Hyperlinks are underlined because ... that's how the web works. It's lowercase because that's what you use in your nom. Respect.

So you know, I don't disagree that the words tell the story. I tell my students that all the time -- making it look pretty can often be a distraction. I edit in text-only mode, myself, though I do use Preview mode here (plus other methods) to give myself different looks, which sometimes helps me find issues. It's like having an extra pair of eyes. Useful. Practical. I'm a practical person, if nothing else.

But, as I and others know well, 85% of coding is user interface. Roughly. No sense insisting that everyone read from stone tablets, I say -- if I can do something that requires minimal effort but adds value, I'm not going to be a TOTAL purist about it.

I've used color in a couple chapters of Flightback when referring (via COLORED hyperlink) to other stories on another site where I cross-publish, where those colors are meaningful to that community. I didn't try here because they're not meaningful in the same way here. But I do underline the name of the story I'm referring to. Well, anyway, now I do -- I hadn't figured out in the first chapter that the hyperlink would be removed.

 

[sbrooks103]

Oh no. I'm resistant to specially formatted text, and I intend to remain that way. You will rarely find italics or boldface in my stories. That won't change.

But I AM considering adding short intros to my stories, possibly in italics, where appropriate. An example is at the beginning of my 750 word story, to remind the reader that the story must be no more than 750 words.

Some things SHOULD be in italics, like book titles and newspaper names.

 

[ElectricBlue]

That's a hyperlink. I didn't try to control its appearance. Hyperlinks are underlined because ... that's how the web works. It's lowercase because that's what you use in your nom. Respect.

Lol. I didn't even register it was a hyperlink back to my post - it didn't have a pretty colour.

eb from electricblue, gotcha. I wondered if it was a bit of a piss-take, since I refer to myself in forum land as EB. A capital fellow, don't you know .

 

[Kojak01]

Page breaks also breaks the formatting. So if you for some reason want several paragraphs formatted, you should do every paragraph separately.

 

[jsmiam]

....I might have to try "blockquote" in upcoming writing since "quote" doesn't work properly (equating to italics) here even though it does elsewhere....!

Blockquote is something different than quote, it's for things like including a snippet of Shakespeare or some other longer quotation (see 8letters song below) within other writing. Here's a 'dictionary' definition of it

"The HTML <blockquote> Element (or HTML Block Quotation Element) indicates that the enclosed text is an extended quotation. Usually, this is rendered visually by indentation (see Notes for how to change it)."​

If you click on "My European Summer Vacation" in my sig and then search for "four-loaf", you can see a blockquote. I could swear that LitE indented the blockquote when I published the story. Now, it doesn't look any different from using the "br" tag.

It actually does, but varies from one browser to the next. On my phone, I normally use an obscure 'privacy' browser, and the blockquoted text was italicized but not indented. On Safari on the phone, it was indented and italicized. On Chrome on my computer, italicized but not indented.

On a story note, "I'm looking over, a four leaf clover, that I overlooked before" was a cute reference, including your play on words. I don't think your story mentioned this, but for an entire generation +/- one or two, we first heard that as a song via Bugs Bunny / Looney Tunes. If a person were to go to youtube, and copy/paste this after the .com, it would lead them there: /watch?v=jJKoD3EDOZY