Italic tagging

[Salacious_Scribe]

What HTML can be used in stories. I Know
BOLD
Italics
Blockquote
What other html tags work.

 

[RejectReality]

Center ( though I've seen conflicting reports about that on new submissions )

Underline & Strikethrough have been used in the past, as demonstrated by examples on the story side, but it's always been hit and miss whether it actually goes through according to the few reports. Not exactly a commonly useful pair of tags in fiction.

You can also use HTML special character codes, though not all of them appear as expected in the final posting. Haven't checked under the new story pages, but the diamonds suit didn't work on the old ones for some reason. All of my EM dashes are displayed via special character codes, because the text processor hates Wordperfect EM dashes. I sometimes use others for fanciful scene breaks in my fantasy stories.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Read RubenR's post before yours. It contans a post by laurel from about a month ago where she says...

Hello,

Thanks for writing, and I hope you are well!

If the story has no bolds or italics, the best way to submit is to cut and paste the text into the text field. We assume any file submitted to us as an upload has formatting somewhere in it, and process accordingly. The software we use converts files from .rtf/.doc to HTML, but word processor templates often add weird tags which we must then remove or fix - even if the your story contains no special formatting (bolds or italics). The resulting text must be checked and corrected before posting live. So - if your work contains no special formatting at all, the best way to ensure there are not bugs or issues (and also the way to get your story posted quickly) is C&P.

If your story has formatting, there are two ways to handle this:
Hand code the HTML yourself - that is, add all the <strong> and <em> tags (or <b> and <i>) if you prefer) yourself. The advantage to this is that the story will be more likely to post exactly as you see it on your end. The disadvantages are 1) it's a massive hassle to do this on a long work, and 2) if you miss a closed tag, you could end up with a page full of italics or bolds.
Upload the file as an RTF or DOC with formatting. If you do it this way, then I strongly suggest avoiding Word styles and use only text bolding, italicizing, and centering. Word styles, for example, often add all sorts of HTML tags that cause problems when we convert the file. For this reason, uploaded files take a little longer to process on our side.

All this said - we have no preference as far as submission format. We want to accommodate whatever works for you as best as we can. In the future, we will have a more feature-rich editor which should allow you to write, format, and save long works in your control panel - as well as upload .docs/.rtfs, see how they will be displayed, make corrections, add images or audio from there, and then submit. This will 1) speed up the processing on our end, and 2) help to eliminate formatting goofs.

If you have any other questions, please let us know!

Thanks again, and stay safe and healthy in these crazy times!​

Doesn't sound automated to me.

Well unless you use styles it is. In goes the .doc out comes the .html.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Center ( though I've seen conflicting reports about that on new submissions )

Underline & Strikethrough have been used in the past, as demonstrated by examples on the story side, but it's always been hit and miss whether it actually goes through according to the few reports. Not exactly a commonly useful pair of tags in fiction.

You can also use HTML special character codes, though not all of them appear as expected in the final posting. Haven't checked under the new story pages, but the diamonds suit didn't work on the old ones for some reason. All of my EM dashes are displayed via special character codes, because the text processor hates Wordperfect EM dashes. I sometimes use others for fanciful scene breaks in my fantasy stories.

Laurel's conversion program takes care of <center> tags which have been discontinued in HTML5. It converts them to <p align=center></p> tags. Although the tag does add a hard line feed after the centered text. So if you only need one line between the next line of text you have to leave it out in the submission text.

Now I copy and paste mine into the text box in the submission form. She does have a piece of code she runs against even those, it's automatic that looks for a bunch of thing... the <center> tag is one of them.

 

[Brutal_One]

Chapter submitted! All good

Chapter 24 has been submitted today and the published result is what I wanted. I did not find it too much of an effort to add the required start and end tags where I wanted them.

It is probably better and clearer to treat each paragraph as a separate block. In the final edit before publishing I used copy for the opening tag e.g. <i> and tagged the start of each paragraph and then used copy for the closing tag </i> to do similar.

This seemed more efficient than adding the start and end tag pairs individually which would take more time.

I did similar with the <b> and </b> tags I wanted.

Thanks for the clear advice folks!

Brutal One