Story Formatting

[Estcher]

Good morning. I apologise if this is the wrong forum for this question:

I always take care when writing my stories for Literotica. In them I have formatting that is always stripped from the stories and to me, this causes unnecessary issues with reading the story.

Specifically, I indent ALL my paragraphs (by 0.2) after the FIRST paragraph. This is important and standard and I fail to understand why Literotica doesn't support this standard. All paragraphs have the indentation removed after moderators vet the stories.

It makes stories MUCH easier to read, breaks in scenes flow better, visually it is appealing, and it removes any ambiguity for the reader. Look at any published novel and you will see this indentation.

The excuse cannot be "for mobile phones etc". We are talking about a two-character indent and HTML and CSS can handle this easily.

Please explain?

Lana Ocean

 

[ElectricBlue]

The site has its own "house style" which allows only limited author formatting - bold, italics, underline, a few others.

You can forget about your own paragraph style - Lit is left-justified, no indents, that's it.

Forget about the look of printed book pages, that's irrelevant. It's a digital medium, not print, and must cater for multiple reading devices.

 

[Estcher]

Thanks

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I am aware of the “house style sheet”. My post is in hope of convincing them to allow a small indent for all paragraphs after the first in each chapter or scene.