MillieDynamite
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If you use a hard break, there will be space between it and the following line. It's just how the system works.
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This site has, or at least had, a pretty thriving group of original poets. Speaking as one who is one, and whose had multiple pieces first published on Lit go on to be in more professional anthologies. I've never actually written an entire book of poetry because I feel like a book of poetry should have a common denominator in addition to the author. I rarely stick with a certain subject beyond a page length or so. Never attempted "epic" poetry, though someday I might. But the only subject common to most of my poetry is that it is almost all free verse... it's not even all erotica.It certain does allow the <br> code, which works fine. Somebody here suggested it for poetry, but I don't think we can reproduce huge pieces of poems unless they are in the public domain.
If you type:If you use a hard break, there will be space between it and the following line. It's just how the system works.
Something working in the preview doesn't mean it will get published that way. You can change the font face, color, and all sorts of things with HTML in the preview that will never see the light of day in the final version.If you type:
I’m Nobody! Who are you? <br>Are you – Nobody – too? <br>Then there’s a pair of us! <br>Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
you should get:
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
I just tried it again on a test file.
It has worked for me in published stories. Some other aspects of HTML don't, especially font and color. In fact, they mostly don't show up in the preview mode at all.Something working in the preview doesn't mean it will get published that way. You can change the font face, color, and all sorts of things with HTML in the preview that will never see the light of day in the final version.
I remember Word Perfect being the big thing. I even remember Wang word processing, which seemed impenetrable to me when I friend showed it to me. Maybe it would seem easy to me now. So I've been using MS Word for at least two decades now.I never submit a word or rtf file. I write in google docs, format it there and use html, then copy and paste it into the submissions box on the Lit submissions page. You get that preview option there so you can see what your story looks like before you hit publish.
I've always done that and it does let you see formatting errors before you fire it off. That said, it's still not great with the line breaks. If you don't do hard line breaks with a space inbetween, it will run them together.
The preview allows many tags and displays them.It has worked for me in published stories. Some other aspects of HTML don't, especially font and color. In fact, the mostly don't show up in the preview mode at all.
The preview allows many tags and displays them.
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They absolutely will not emerge in the published story. <br> is not in the list of tags excluded from the HTML-stripping of the text processor. If it works in the published story, it's because Laurel allowed it. It's not standard, and if Laurel processes it without making an exception, the text processor is going to strip those tags and replace them with double-spacing. Including a note pointing them out and requesting the single-spacing be maintained isn't a guarantee either. I've had those requests ignored once or twice.
They're far more likely to be honored in poetry from what I've heard, however. ( Not poems within stories, actual poems submitted to the poetry categories )
Now I'm not sure if I ever did this on Lit, or was in on another site? I guess I could go through all 138 submissions on here and take a look.The preview allows many tags and displays them.
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They absolutely will not emerge in the published story. <br> is not in the list of tags excluded from the HTML-stripping of the text processor. If it works in the published story, it's because Laurel allowed it. It's not standard, and if Laurel processes it without making an exception, the text processor is going to strip those tags and replace them with double-spacing. Including a note pointing them out and requesting the single-spacing be maintained isn't a guarantee either. I've had those requests ignored once or twice.
They're far more likely to be honored in poetry from what I've heard, however. ( Not poems within stories, actual poems submitted to the poetry categories )
In my six years here I only ran into problems caused by my own HTML mistakes.If you depend on the preview as the arbiter of what is allowed in published work, you're going to find yourself greatly disappointed.
I haven't needed single-spacing in anything for a while, so I suppose it's possible they've made it a normally allowed tag. Doesn't seem likely, because it would allow people to severely break the standard formatting if passed unvetted. Doesn't change the fact that the preview is not representative of what's allowed in published stories.
I haven't used that iMac in at least six years. My sister, who is big into ebay, claims that there are Apple fans who will but it, working or not.I remember Word Perfect being the big thing. I even remember Wang word processing, which seemed impenetrable to me when I friend showed it to me. Maybe it would seem easy to me now. So I've been using MS Word for at least two decades now.
I had (still do) a 2003 iMac. Apple's word processing files could be converted to Word, but not the other way around.