Scrivener (or any RTF) to Literotica

[tv46]

I finally found an easy way to generate Literotica text with the proper code for Italics and Bold.

1. Generate your story in RTF format.

2. Past the RTF text in this website http://www.unit-conversion.info/texttools/text-to-html/ and convert to HTML.

3. Copy converted text into any word processor.

4. Use global find/replace to get rid of all the HTML garbage, leaving the important stuff. Bold, Italic, Dash, Ellipse or anything else you want to keep.

5. Fix up anything with an & prefix (dash, ellipse, etc.) and use the correct symbols for Italics and Bold.

6. After a little trial and error, you should be able to do an entire story in less than five minutes.

7. Copy/paste the result into the literotica submission page and preview the results to double check your work.

 

[TxRad]

Upload a Word .doc file and you cut out 7 of those steps.

 

[tv46]

Upload a Word .doc file and you cut out 7 of those steps.

I thought the Literotica staff had to manually process those .doc files to add the italics and bold. At least it says so on the submission page.

 

[legerdemer]

I thought the Literotica staff had to manually process those .doc files to add the italics and bold. At least it says so on the submission page.

Sorry, your steps seem harder to me than taking the bare bones text file and adding the small bits of html code necessary as I go.

The ability to upload a .doc or .docx file directly and simply, without need for manual processing, seems like a great feature that would make everyone's life easier, Laurel's and writers'.

 

[JKendallDane]

And of course there is the really radical idea of just inserting the very simple html for italics and bold as you are typing things up and then doing only one cut and paste right into the submission box.

Don't make this any more difficult than it needs to be.

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[legerdemer]

Sorry, your steps seem harder to me than taking the bare bones text file and adding the small bits of html code necessary as I go.

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And of course there is the really radical idea of just inserting the very simple html for italics and bold as you are typing things up and then doing only one cut and paste right into the submission box.
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Huh... I could swear that's what I just said.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

Upload a Word .doc file and you cut out 7 of those steps.

As long as you don't mind them getting it wrong.

My first story here was 18 Lit pages, used italics fairly often, and I uploaded it as a word doc. It took them over 3 weeks to get it published, and they messed up the spacing around the italics. I didn't learn. The next time they had italics left on for the last third of my story. It wasn't because the word doc was incorrect.

This bugs me because I'm reasonably certain a ten line Visual Basic for Word script could completely automate the process, and no one there would do anything by hand. I know Lit's tiny but they ought to be able to handle that coding task. Heck, .docx is basically XML - a perl hacker could get something working in an hour.

In the meantime... yeah, what she said. Add them by hand. Or dig up the post I did some time ago where I gave Word commands to do the necessary replacements for you.

 

[Bramblethorn]

And of course there is the really radical idea of just inserting the very simple html for italics and bold as you are typing things up and then doing only one cut and paste right into the submission box.

Don't make this any more difficult than it needs to be.

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That's good if you're only posting to Lit, but I cross-publish most of my stuff to Smashwords which takes a .doc, so I'd have to go back and change those bits for SW. I end up having to maintain two copies of the doc anyway, but not having to redo italics by hand makes life easier.

Zeb posted a useful tip on how to use the Word search-and-replace to convert italics to HTML: http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=75251424&postcount=8

 

[TxRad]

By the way, .docx doesn't work here at Lit.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

By the way, .docx doesn't work here at Lit.

The submission page says it does.

There are two ways to submit your story. You may paste the text into the box below or you may upload a .txt, .rtf, .odt, or Word .doc, .docx file by scrolling down the page to the next form field. Please use only one method - do not put text in the box and submit a file as both may be lost.

 

[TxRad]

The submission page says it does.

Then why have several dozen people had problems with it that were fixed by simply resubmitting with a .doc file?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Then why have several dozen people had problems with it that were fixed by simply resubmitting with a .doc file?

Don't ask me, I copy and paste, ask Laurel what the problem is.