'Nother Formatting Question

[TarnishedPenny]

In my Halloween contest entry, Love Long Gone, a large 'No Trespassing' sign was a central part of the story. It was five lines of centred, bold text.

When it was published, the lines were double spaced, which reduces its impact just a little, IMO.

That's happened before and I' m wondering if there's a way to avoid it in future, just have it single-spaced?

Thanks.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

In my Halloween contest entry, Love Long Gone, a large 'No Trespassing' sign was a central part of the story. It was five lines of centred, bold text.

When it was published, the lines were double spaced, which reduces its impact just a little, IMO.

That's happened before and I' m wondering if there's a way to avoid it in future, just have it single-spaced?

Thanks.

The <center></center> html tag is converted to <p="center"></p> tag, which puts two line feeds in after each <p> tag.

You might try this...

<center> Text
Text
Text
Text</center>

 

[TarnishedPenny]

The <center></center> html tag is converted to <p="center"></p> tag, which puts two line feeds in after each <p> tag.

You might try this...

<center> Text
Text
Text
Text</center>

That's what I did, but it still came out double-spaced.

 

[Blind_Justice]

That's what I did, but it still came out double-spaced.

I have just looked at the page source code. Whatever is in the <center> tages has double <br> tags behind it. Probably a quirk of the Lit HTML converter. Not sure if there is a manual formatting method which could override what Lit does to your text.*

* It has been 15+ years that I last tried to debug a style sheet.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

OK, thanks.

I guess in future I'll either have to avoid that sort of thing or include a note in the admin box and see if they can set it right ab ovo.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

That's what I did, but it still came out double-spaced.

Sorry. I have never done that, so I didn't know. You learn something new each day.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I knew I have seen this before... In my Orgasm Island Ch. 01, there is a letter included and the name, address, etc. all have extra line break between lines. It pissed me off.

 

[RejectReality]

You do have to specially request single spacing. Even if you manually code it, the text processor will change it to double spacing.

Naturally, you should both manually code it and make the request.

Even then, there's no guarantee it will happen. My track record is about 90% on single space requests for the rhyming couplets that form spells of witchcraft in my Danica's World stories. So it happens most of the time, but if Laurel is in a rush, it may get skipped over.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

How well do jpg’s transfer over? Turn it into an image, maybe?

 

[NotWise]

How well do jpg’s transfer over? Turn it into an image, maybe?

You can do that, though I'd probably use a PNG image for text. You might then have an illustrated story, which will take longer to approve.

One of my stories from a couple years ago started with the text of an invitation. It was supposed to be two lines separated by one break, a double space, and two more lines separated by one break. I was advised (here, I think) to use <blockquote><center></blockquote></center> to get that done.

It came out double-spaced.

 

[jaF0]

I was advised (here, I think) to use <blockquote><center></blockquote></center> to get that done.

It came out double-spaced.

On a web page, that would be improperly nested. It should be:

<blockquote><center> Text </center></blockquote>

But I don't know how relevant that would be here. Does anybody know if the <code> </code> tag pair works here, or if it would have the desired effect?

 

[JPGmvny]

The <center></center> html tag is converted to <p="center"></p> tag, which puts two line feeds in after each <p> tag.

You might try this...

<center> Text
Text
Text
Text</center>

It's been a while since I've done coding. I have one spot where centered and single-space was what I wanted.

I submit long stories as RTFs. What format should I use if I want to put codes in, as well as making a request? Should I cut-and-paste?

 

[TarnishedPenny]

It's been a while since I've done coding. I have one spot where centered and single-space was what I wanted.

I submit long stories as RTFs. What format should I use if I want to put codes in, as well as making a request? Should I cut-and-paste?

Oops, misread that. Don’t know, me.

 

[RejectReality]

Even if you tag it with <br> you still have to add a note requesting the single spacing be left in. Even then, there's no guarantee it will happen because it's outside the normal formatting.