New here need tech help

[grannygdog]

I tried to post my first story but the preview looked greek. I writen with lotus word. Could that be the problem. Id like to post it but need help.

 

[SweetErika]

Did you go through this page , paying special attention to the Submission Guidelines, which specify what format/file types are acceptable? That should also tell you how to fix and resubmit it.

 

[Weird Harold]

I tried to post my first story but the preview looked greek. I writen with lotus word. Could that be the problem. Id like to post it but need help.

I'm not familiar with Lotus Word, but most full featured, WYIWYG word processors use embedded control codes that are incompatible with HTML.

Save your file as a plain text file and open it with Notepad, Wordpad or other plain text editor to find the places where Lotus Word doesn't translate into plain text formatting properly -- or copy and paste fron Lotus to Wordpad for your final formating before submission.

Lit's scripts expect a flat-text ASCII format with two CR/LF pairs (paragraph marks) separating paragraphs. They can handle a "text with fixed line length" format as long as the paragraphs have the double paragraph breaks between them.

"Special" characters, like what MS Word calls "Smart Quotes," single character codes for ellipses or Em-dashes, accented or "foreign" characters and the like have to be converted to the HTML codes for those characters from the Word processer codes if you need to use them.