Quick question on formatting

[Zetetic]

I'm having trouble with a formatting issue and was hoping I could get some help.

It's pretty straightforward, but I can't figure it out:

I want to have some sections of a story in italic (using <i> and </i> in various parts of the tale). I tried to Preview it (roughly 6,000 words) in the Submission window (using cut and paste) where the Preview engine broke it into two "pages." The font is in italic at the end of page 1 and should stay that way on page 2. At the beginning of page 2 though, the text reverted to standard font even though there was no end tag telling it to do so.

I know that the Preview window is not how it looks when it's actually posted, but is there something I can do when I submit the story to assure that the formatting will not change when it decides to split the story into pages? Or is this just a fault of the Preview function and when it's posted it will go from one page to the next in whatever format it was at the end of the previous page?

Thank you for any light you can shed on this question.

 

[missalyssa1929]

I'm having trouble with a formatting issue and was hoping I could get some help.

It's pretty straightforward, but I can't figure it out:

I want to have some sections of a story in italic (using <i> and </i> in various parts of the tale). I tried to Preview it (roughly 6,000 words) in the Submission window (using cut and paste) where the Preview engine broke it into two "pages." The font is in italic at the end of page 1 and should stay that way on page 2. At the beginning of page 2 though, the text reverted to standard font even though there was no end tag telling it to do so.

I know that the Preview window is not how it looks when it's actually posted, but is there something I can do when I submit the story to assure that the formatting will not change when it decides to split the story into pages? Or is this just a fault of the Preview function and when it's posted it will go from one page to the next in whatever format it was at the end of the previous page?

Thank you for any light you can shed on this question.

Yeah, I had the same problem before. Well, actually Lit uses a different set of codes called the "BBCode," if you wanna google it. Here, to make things italic, you put , for underlining it's , and bold is and to stop the italic/bolded/underlined font it's the same but w/ a "/" before the , I'm sorry I don't all of that to become italicized font so yeah lol. I hope that helped a bit.

 

[Zetetic]

missalyssa1929, thank you for the fast response. For clarification, if I use the backeted tags [] in my story and simply insert it as text, it should stay in italic (or bold) until it finds and bracketed end tag, irrespective of page breaks?

 

[missalyssa1929]

missalyssa1929, thank you for the fast response. For clarification, if I use the backeted tags [] in my story and simply insert it as text, it should stay in italic (or bold) until it finds and bracketed end tag, irrespective of page breaks?

I'm sorry hon, what did you mean by "insert it as text"?

 

[sr71plt]

Yeah, I had the same problem before. Well, actually Lit uses a different set of codes called the "BBCode," if you wanna google it. Here, to make things italic, you put , for underlining it's , and bold is and to stop the italic/bolded/underlined font it's the same but w/ a "/" before the , I'm sorry I don't all of that to become italicized font so yeah lol. I hope that helped a bit.

Strange, that's not the way it works for me on cut and paste story submissions. Although in this forum, I have to use the brackets [ ], in story text submissions what works for me are the side acute brackets < >.

Also, on the original question, it isn't the end code instructions that get a code started, it's the beginning code instructions. So, the code presumably should be ended at the end of your first page and then begun again at the start of your second page--although I've never tried doing that, because I can't imagine italics straddling two pages like that anyway. Wonder what you are using that much italics for.

 

[Weird Harold]

missalyssa1929, thank you for the fast response. For clarification, if I use the backeted tags [] in my story and simply insert it as text, it should stay in italic (or bold) until it finds and bracketed end tag, irrespective of page breaks?

Missy is confusing the Forums with Story submissions. Story submissions use HTML code and NOT vB Code.

The problem you're having is caused by HTML cloosing out all open tags when it reaches a </body> tag. and the second page then becomes a new and separate HTML page with no open tags to implement.

The solution to your problem is to tag each paragraph with the italics tags; <i> and </i>)

Since the Preview (and posted story) won't break the middle of a paragraph (or at least it isn't supposed to,) the Italics tag at the beginning of the first paragraph on page two should resume your Italics. properly.

 

[Zetetic]

One last attempt

I'm sorry to make this into a federal project, but let me try one more time. If I can't explain myself I'll leave it alone and try another approach. I promise.

First, for missalyssa1929, by "text" I mean standard ASCII characters. These are those you'll find in a text file, not in a file that is an RTF or a MS-Word DOC, which use additional data in the file (that don't display) to maintain all the fancy formatting.

When you paste characters into the Preview window you have no idea how Preview will break the story into pages (though I think it's around 2500 or 3000 words on a page). My concern is that if I start a section of a few paragraphs that are all supposed to be in italics (like a reminiscence), I know to put the <i> tag (to begin italics font) before the first paragraph of this section. When I tested it with a draft version of a story, those few paragraphs were right where a page break happened and though it ended page 1 in italics, it began on page 2 as normal text. It did this before the </i> (which turns italics off) later in the text.

I'm trying to prevent this from happening.

Thank you again for any help.

 

[Zetetic]

Got it!

Weird Harold, of course! That is the perfect solution. And it even makes good sense to me.

Thank you for the helpful response.

 

[Weird Harold]

Weird Harold, of course! That is the perfect solution. And it even makes good sense to me.

Thank you for the helpful response.

You'rr welcome.

FWIW, an average Lit page has 3,767 words, but it varies a great deal because the script puts the division at the end of the nearest paragraph. (or the previous paragraph break)