Posting Illustrated Stories

[ElectricBlue]

So the 'pretty cover page' I spent time getting to look like a book cover is out the window.

I appreciate your time and help. Dmallord

I think you have to shed the notion, "I want it to look like a book," and adopt the mind set, "It's going to be a Lit page with some images in it." Conceptually, they're two quite different things.

 

[HeyAll]

Thank you for your response.

I will keep the litupload info in my writing folder as a 'golden nugget info item.'

From Electricblue66 I followed another link and found the centering command:

• Align Center - center aligned text. Please use <p align="center">Center Aligned Text Here</p> tags.
• This should be an example of that: <p align="center"> Hey All's Next Great Title Centered on the Page </p>

Lit's page also says that it supports the legacy HTML code for centering text. I have and use that one and it works:
<center> Title of my Story </center>

Hope this helps you out as well.

Dmallord

I use that centering (and bolding) when submitting stories with copy/paste.

But when submitting Illustrated stories with Word, the centering doesn't work for me. Others might know the technique for it.

Also, brackets don't work for Word. Just bold and/or italics the Word text and it appears in the final product.

 

[dmallord]

I use that centering (and bolding) when submitting stories with copy/paste.

But when submitting Illustrated stories with Word, the centering doesn't work for me. Others might know the technique for it.

Also, brackets don't work for Word. Just bold and/or italics the Word text and it appears in the final product.

Hey ... HeyAll, or as I've learned the Plural form is 'Hey ... HeyAll of Y'all'

I wasn't aware that bold and/or italics would transfer to Lit w/o the brackets, e.g., <b></b> or <I></I> commands. I write in MS Word for Mac. Perhaps your version is different and is read differently by Lit than my version. Not sure of that. The Lit resource page I found says that the commands I quoted in another part of this thread work in all three: stories, illustrations, and illustrated stories. That they don't work for you points out that Lit's statement is not entirely accurate, it seems.

I haven't submitted an actual MS Word document for a very long time. It used to take forever to get them posted. I learned that I could just copy and paste them instead as you noted. That method is reviewed and posted much faster; even the 30K word stories.

When finished, I copy paste them [stories only] into the Lit Window using the legacy commands below. When I click on 'submit and preview' those elements show up as they are supposed to when posted. I have trouble with the Mac's 'long hyphen to indicate a pause between thoughts. I use the key stokes - option/hyphen and it looks good in the preview window; however, when it actually gets posted, it comes out as --. From another thread, I learned to substitute the HTML symbol &mdash; and that works. It has to be exactly &mdash; the semicolon must be there, and it has to be lowercase or it doesn't work. Now I write the story as I would using the Mac command, then during the final editing, I go back and do a find/replace to change that to read &mdash; It looks like a mess, but it works out when published on Lit. This is an extract I submitted and it was posted correctly.

<center><B> A Hunting We Will Go! </B></center>
<center><B> Written by </b></center>
<center><B> Dmallord </b></center>

<center>Copyright by dmallord, 2022, USA. All rights reserved. </center>

<center> 13,300 &mdash; MS Words </center>
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It certainly would be nice if the posted version looked like the MS Word version w/o all the added commands.

Thanks again for the info. Dmallord

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