Italics in text editor vanish

[dadadadiox]

I'm attempting to post my first story. in my writing, I like to express the inner thoughts of characters using italics. When I cut and paste to the text editor, the italics change to a standard font. I see no way to fix that in the editor.

Any suggestions?

Is there a standard way authors here express inner voices without italics? I can't say I've seen any.

Thanks.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

I'm attempting to post my first story. in my writing, I like to express the inner thoughts of characters using italics. When I cut and paste to the text editor, the italics change to a standard font. I see no way to fix that in the editor.

Any suggestions?

Is there a standard way authors here express inner voices without italics? I can't say I've seen any.

Thanks.

"Why the hell is he trying to use italics," Jax thought to himself. "Man, I never use special editing when uploading stories."

 

[NotWise]

I'm attempting to post my first story. in my writing, I like to express the inner thoughts of characters using italics. When I cut and paste to the text editor, the italics change to a standard font. I see no way to fix that in the editor.

Any suggestions?

Is there a standard way authors here express inner voices without italics? I can't say I've seen any.

Thanks.

In order to preserve font changes like that you need to submit your story as a *.doc, or *.rtf file, or you need to include the html tags for the font change, as in <i>italicized text</i>.

I do the latter, because the site's documentation says that it will take longer to post a story uploaded as *.doc or *.rtf. I'm not sure that it actually does take longer. The site's documentation is old.

 

[Payne_Hall]

I'm attempting to post my first story. in my writing, I like to express the inner thoughts of characters using italics. When I cut and paste to the text editor, the italics change to a standard font. I see no way to fix that in the editor.

Any suggestions?

Is there a standard way authors here express inner voices without italics? I can't say I've seen any.

Thanks.

The text editor uses HTML, like stated above. You can also use the HTML coding to center pieces of text, bold chapter titles, etc. As a side note, the HTML code doesn’t carry over between lit pages. For instance, if you have an italicized few sentences and one sentence ends on page one, the next page will auto default to standard font, as it is technically a new web page. So whenever you space paragraphs, just make sure to code each one.

I just learned that last part with a skewed story xD.

 

[TxRad]

In order to preserve font changes like that you need to submit your story as a *.doc, or *.rtf file, or you need to include the html tags for the font change, as in <i>italicized text</i>.

I do the latter, because the site's documentation says that it will take longer to post a story uploaded as *.doc or *.rtf. I'm not sure that it actually does take longer. The site's documentation is old.

As far as I can tell, it does not take any longer.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

As far as I can tell, it does not take any longer.

Somebody in another thread basically about this same stuff, said Laurel has to manually add the special stuff like italics and bold. Since the formating box is not as advanced as what we use on the forum. The site is older than VBulletin itself, which came about in the early 00s as a mainstay versus html based sites.

 

[mynameisben]

In order to preserve font changes like that you need to submit your story as a *.doc, or *.rtf file, or you need to include the html tags for the font change, as in <i>italicized text</i>.

I submitted a story a couple of weeks ago using text I Copy & Pasted into the Story Editor's text window. The Editor would not accept HTML tags such as <i> and </i>. It did in the past, but it doesn't anymore.


Ben

 

[Bramblethorn]

I submitted a story a couple of weeks ago using text I Copy & Pasted into the Story Editor's text window. The Editor would not accept HTML tags such as <i> and </i>. It did in the past, but it doesn't anymore.

Hmm. Worked fine for me a couple of weeks ago.

 

[RejectReality]

Worked fine for me about four days ago. Bold, italic, cut-n-paste, plus I used special character codes for all my em dashes. No issues.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Worked fine for me about four days ago. Bold, italic, cut-n-paste, plus I used special character codes for all my em dashes. No issues.

Do you find it necessary to code the em-dashes? I've always just pasted those in, and they seem to come through okay.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I just paste plain text into the text editor, and add the HTML codes as needed. It's usually either italics or bold. If it shows up in the text editor, it should show up in the final product.

There are a few others that seem to work, or at least they did. <tt>, <var> and <kbd> make the text look like it came from a typewriter, which may once in a while be useful it you are trying to make it look like a document from somewhere else - like a letter from one of the characters. (Try a dummy file as an experiment; it's a little hard to explain.) It's quite rare to use any of those.

I don't know why yours didn't work.

P.S.: There are a few others, but I'm not going to mention them here. Well, <mark> will add a yellow background to the text, if that kind of thing has any purpose.