LAUREL QUESTION!!! HTML formatting the thing to save you some time

[KillerMuffin]

#3 I have a story with alot of italicizing in it. I would like to do it for you, if it'll come over, so you don't have to worry about it. Can I and whats the code?

#2 I'd like to stick a hyperlink in it to another story on the site (where the italicized text comes from) is that possible?

#3 The author of the other story has already given me permission to reprint, though he'll need to give it to you as well, he said he'd email it whenever you're ready for it. Do you have something specific you'd like him to put in the subject line for that?

#4 Did you have any guac? I'm hungry.

 

[Laurel]

#1 I have a story with alot of italicizing in it. I would like to do it for you, if it'll come over, so you don't have to worry about it. Can I and whats the code?

Certainly. You put <i> before the section to be italicized, and </i> after the section. To make bolds, you do <b> before and </b> after.

You don't have to put the tags at the beginning and end of every sentence if there are several sentences in a row, but if there are several paragraphs in a row with formatting through the whole paragraph, you'll need tags at the beginning and end of the paragraph.

For example:

<i> Damnit</i>, I thought.

will become

Damnit, I thought.

Here's a great tutorial which should help explain basic HTML stuff:
http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/

#2 I'd like to stick a hyperlink in it to another story on the site (where the italicized text comes from) is that possible?

Usually, the answer is no. We discourage the use of hyperlinks for anti-spam reasons, but we will allow the links if we feel there's a reason for it and that it adds to the story. Email me with the link to the site & we'll talk.

#3 The author of the other story has already given me permission to reprint, though he'll need to give it to you as well, he said he'd email it whenever you're ready for it. Do you have something specific you'd like him to put in the subject line for that?

Yes. Put "Here's the $100 I owe you." No, don't put that - I'll think it's spam. Just put something like "KillerMuffin's story - approval" or something like that.

#4 Did you have any guac? I'm hungry.

No, but I've got some killer salsa in the fridge. Made with habanero chiles. It'll grow hair on your chest for sure.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Essentially it's the story of a story. The hyperlink is to: http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=3500 specifically and only to. It's not necessary since I've listed the name and author in the beginning of the thing. However, I thought it might be nice to generate a link. I didn't know your take on it.

Habanero chiles. Oh my. I'm drooling. I'll trade you a slightly used Cadbury's Creme Egg for some.

 

[Laurel]

Oh yeah, that's fine. Links to other parts of Lit are fine. I just don't want some wacko putting a link that looks fine when I approve it, but then suspiciously changes to a kiddie porn or spam link afterward, know what I'm sayin'?

 

[Bob Peale]

No, but I've got some killer salsa in the fridge. Made with habanero chiles. It'll grow hair on your chest for sure.

People always say that, but they never have anything to take it OFF!

 

[Sateema Lunasi]

my really fucking stoopid question

Okay, don't laugh.

I submit stories by copy and paste into the little form given. When I do that, though my story was originally formatted and all that good stuff, it shows up in the box as screwed up...lines REALLY long and such. Does it show up to you as normal, or what? I want to make it easy for the editors, less time. How do I do that?

I am stoooopid when it comes to this stuff.
Sorry.

Luv,
S

 

[Weird Harold]

Re: my really fucking stoopid question

I submit stories by copy and paste into the little form given. When I do that, though my story was originally formatted and all that good stuff, it shows up in the box as screwed up...lines REALLY long and such.

Part of the answer to your question depends on what word processer you use. MS Word 97, for example has several formatting tools that don't translate to text format -- things like paragraph indents, centered text, etc.

Another part of your question has to do with "invisible characters" like line feeds, carriage returns, tabs, and paragraph breaks. Because you normally can't see these characters, you often don't know where the true end of the line is.

Again using MS Word as an example, If your paragraphs are properly formmatted, they are acutally one long string of text, ending with a paragraph break (which you can't see.) When you cut an paste into the form, the text wrapps at the edges of the box, and then expands to fit the screen when you preview the submission. It will wrap again to a different length when displayed to fit in the background image literotica uses. That is the normal and correct formatting for Lit.

If you find that paragraphs run together, lines break in the middle of a sentence, indents disappear, etc, then you probably have invisible characters causing the problems.

The submission form does NOT accept italics, bold face, or anything else that cannot be done in a pure text format. To get those kinds of formatting, you need to insert the appropriate tags (<i>,</i> for italics and <b>,</b> for boldface) in the text you are cutting and pasting into the box.

Word 97 and later can insert them automatically by saving the file in HTML format, but it also adds several other things that have to be edited out before you submit the result. If you aren't familiar with HTML then you're better off adding the tags manually.

 

[Laurel]

WH, you rock.

No, but I've got some killer salsa in the fridge. Made with habanero chiles. It'll grow hair on your chest for sure.

People always say that, but they never have anything to take it OFF!

LOL! How about Nair?

 

[Ulyssa]

I do not recommend Nair in salsa!

On the other hand it won't hurt the guacamole too bad.

(Or is it the other way around?)

[Edited by Ulyssa on 03-31-2001 at 08:34 AM]