newbie question

[meris]

Hi all. I have a story that i'm almost ready to post but after reading the submission guidelines, the FAQs and looking at the submission page, I still have a question. The submission page states that Literotica would prefer the story to be submitted as a txt. file. I wrote my story in word but when I save it as a plain text file, it removes all the lines between paragraphs, leaving the story looking like one big blurb. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

 

[Couture]

I've seen this before. Word has formatted them as paragraphs which is not the same a carraige return. The easiest thing to do, is to copy it all and paste it back into word as text. Edit/Paste Special/Text.

Then add returns where Word deleted them.

I would probabably recommend you not mess around with the styles option when posting stuff to the net. It works great to select things as headings and paragraphs for papers etc. and greatly reduces your time, but it plays hell when dealing with text.

BTW, I would also recommend you go into Options and uncheck automatic paragraph selection under the edit tab.

Hope this helps.

 

[Weird Harold]

I wrote my story in word but when I save it as a plain text file, it removes all the lines between paragraphs, leaving the story looking like one big blurb. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Lit prefers a "flat text" file with two carriage return/line feed pairs between each paragraph. Word normally puts one pair as paragraph mark and displays a set number of "points" gap between paragraphs.

To convert a word document to falt text, turn on the "display invisible characters" function. (a sort of backwards "P" on the standard tool bar.) that will show you all of the paragraph breaks, tab characters, and spaces in your document.

Insure that there is only one paragraph break in each paragraph -- delete any extra paragraph marks.

Call up find and replace (Ctrl-H) and search for "Special/Paragraph break" (or ^p), Replace with "Special/paragraph break, special/paragraph break" (or ^p^p) and "replace all"

"Save As" text file and close the file.

Open the file with WordPad or Notepad if it's small enough and confirm that you have blank lines between paragraphs and close without making any changes.

Submit file to Lit.

 

[abashed-dreamer]

Or more simply

(speaking as one whose paras have disappeared)
Submit the story as rtf or MS Word. It only takes a couple days longer.

Jack.

 

[meris]

thanks all

Thanks for the help. It's very much appreciated. Hopefully, I'll be in the position to answer some questions on this board one day!