RTF preview?

[MajorRewrite]

I tried to upload a story in RTF, but the submission form wouldn't let me see a preview. I'm not going do the final submission of any story without a preview.

I'm trying RTF rather than TXT because I'd like to get curly quotes and some other things in the final product. It's not a big deal but I think it'd be nice.

Anyway, do any of you submit stories in RTF format? If so, do you have a way to preview before final submission? Any special tips for successfully using RTF?

 

[yowser]

As far as I know, the only way to get a preview is to paste your document's text into the text window on the submission site, uploading a file doesn't let you see the final business.

I write in rtf and routinely just do the 'select all' copy and paste function and put it in the text box. There are still things you need to do for correct formatting (italics need html tags, em-dashes are an issue) but that is the best way to see as closely as possible what your final effort will look like when published.

 

[KeithD]

As far as I know, the only way to get a preview is to paste your document's text into the text window on the submission site, uploading a file doesn't let you see the final business.

Yep, and cut and paste into the document text box works well here. I agree that having preview capability is important.

 

[8letters]

I tried to upload a story in RTF, but the submission form wouldn't let me see a preview. I'm not going do the final submission of any story without a preview.

I'm trying RTF rather than TXT because I'd like to get curly quotes and some other things in the final product. It's not a big deal but I think it'd be nice.

Anyway, do any of you submit stories in RTF format? If so, do you have a way to preview before final submission? Any special tips for successfully using RTF?

I submit my stories in the text box. I include HTML for special formatting such as bold, italics. My submission includes curly quotes, but those get changed to plain quotes by Literotica.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Any formatting that doesn't comply with common style used here is ignored. Not saying this is a good thing or a bad, just that it is the thing.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I tried to upload a story in RTF, but the submission form wouldn't let me see a preview. I'm not going do the final submission of any story without a preview.

I'm trying RTF rather than TXT because I'd like to get curly quotes and some other things in the final product. It's not a big deal but I think it'd be nice.

Anyway, do any of you submit stories in RTF format? If so, do you have a way to preview before final submission? Any special tips for successfully using RTF?

As Yowser says, the only way to get a preview is to copy and paste into the submission form's text box.

If you do that and see glitches, you can edit within the form.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

The final business will be just like every other story on Lit. It's all controlled by the site via its style sheet. No matter what you do in an RTF file everything you put in will be stripped out except for bold, italic, underline and a few other formatting options you have using html.

As far as your curly quotes, say bye-bye.

 

[SamScribble]

As far as your curly quotes, say bye-bye.

I feel a story coming on: 'Bye bye, Curly Quotes'

 

[Rustyoznail]

I feel a story coming on: 'Bye bye, Curly Quotes'

She slowly reached down and with a quick flick of her script grabbed his punctuation.

“Say bye-bye to your short and curly quotes. You won’t need them where I’m taking you.”

 

[Kumquatqueen]

She slowly reached down and with a quick flick of her script grabbed his punctuation.

“Say bye-bye to your short and curly quotes. You won’t need them where I’m taking you.”

"His exclamation mark was cowed into a nervous question mark, the commas on either side clenched into mere full stops."

 

[SamScribble]

"His exclamation mark was cowed into a nervous question mark, the commas on either side clenched into mere full stops."

I was thinking more along the lines of:

'Curly Quotes had just turned 18 when the Cessna Citation piloted by Fuller Stop got into difficulty above the Dimple Hills back nine and, after managing to avoid the bunker guarding the 16th green, crashed into a ladies' four, making a hole in one of them.'

 

[MajorRewrite]

Ha (and curly comments)

Y’all are clever. Excellent, imaginative responses. 5 stars!

I just noticed that in the comments section of stories, apostrophes and quotes ARE CURLY! So the comments section is automatically getting more advanced typesetting than the story itself.

I think that earns a great big WTF?