Word to HTML?

[sxkt78]

I hope this is a right forum to ask this.
I tend to paste my stories into the text box rather than upload a Word file when submitting. It's easier on the formatting issues and seems to not get rejections if I do it that way.

I don't use a lot of formatting but there are still some such as italics or bold, ie <i> <b>. Doing so manually is tiring and time consuming, however. Does anyone know a good Word-to-HTML converter? Then I could just copy paste that into the Literotica text box for submitting here.

Thank you.

 

[NotWise]

I hope this is a right forum to ask this.
I tend to paste my stories into the text box rather than upload a Word file when submitting. It's easier on the formatting issues and seems to not get rejections if I do it that way.

I don't use a lot of formatting but there are still some such as italics or bold, ie <i> <b>. Doing so manually is tiring and time consuming, however. Does anyone know a good Word-to-HTML converter? Then I could just copy paste that into the Literotica text box for submitting here.

Thank you.

It's the right forum.

I use LibreOffice Writer rather than Word. I can save files as HTML straight out of the word processor, and I'd be shocked if you couldn't.

Regardless of how you do it, converting the whole thing to HTML would cause you more problems than it solves. The conversions will add a header, css references, and formatting that isn't accepted by Lit. Lit only allows a very limited subset of html, and it would take a lot more work to remove what Lit won't allow then it takes to put in what Lit does allow.

I add those mark-ups to my stories as I write. It isn't much of a burden.

 

[SyleusSnow]

Get clean, simple HTML from MS Word using TextFixer's Convert Word DOC to HTML

There's a post about this with more details on my blog, plus a link to a Word macro that also does the trick:

https://syleussnow.wordpress.com/2021/01/30/ms-word-to-html-for-literotica/

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Like NotWise, I put the tags in as I go. If you are doing the mark up of you doc as you go, how much trouble would it be to place the tags? None. If you wait until the end to do the mark up then again, how much more tedious could putting the tags in also be?

 

[SyleusSnow]

Like NotWise, I put the tags in as I go. If you are doing the mark up of you doc as you go, how much trouble would it be to place the tags? None. If you wait until the end to do the mark up then again, how much more tedious could putting the tags in also be?

That's how I used to do it too. It certainly works, but you have to be so careful to match each opening and closing tag. Kinda interferes with the writing flow. Worst thing, though, is putting the markup in the text confuses spelling and grammar checkers, and text-to-speech readers too.

 

[jaF0]

I prefer NO formatting at all. For me, it's about how the words are used, not what they look like. Emphasis can be done in upper case without bold or italics or even underscore.

There might be a case for an occasional indented paragraph or two.

 

[SyleusSnow]

I prefer NO formatting at all. For me, it's about how the words are used, not what they look like. Emphasis can be done in upper case without bold or italics or even underscore.

There might be a case for an occasional indented paragraph or two.

Sure... all caps is easy, plus the only emphasis that also works on the Lit Android app that everyone says is widely used. It's sooo crude, though. Reminds me of the days of banging stuff out on mechanical typewriters.

 

[jaF0]

So, what's wrong with crude?

This is a story telling site, not one to show off artistic graphics (though there is a section for that) or computer coding skills.

 

[sxkt78]

It's the right forum.

I use LibreOffice Writer rather than Word. I can save files as HTML straight out of the word processor, and I'd be shocked if you couldn't.

Thank you for this. Much appreciated. I'll give it a go. I also appreciate that adding markup as you go is going to expedite the process!

 

[sxkt78]

Get clean, simple HTML from MS Word using TextFixer's Convert Word DOC to HTML

There's a post about this with more details on my blog, plus a link to a Word macro that also does the trick:

https://syleussnow.wordpress.com/2021/01/30/ms-word-to-html-for-literotica/

I'll check this one as well. I've just pasted a bit of my story into the TextFixer tool - seems to be doing a good enough job. I am not sure if Literotica's mechanisms "like" <p></p> but if italics, bold and centering (for title chapters) work, it is certainly a good start.

 

[sxkt78]

Agreed. The only trouble is that I still want to have my stories looking good in my Word (or whichever other editor I use...) file(s), outside of Literotica, so at the end of the day, on there, I'd like actual italics rather than <i></i>, so if I tag as I go along, I will still need to untag them for my desktop files after the fact.

But hey, life is not perfect and can't have everything in it!

 

[LexxRuthless]

Agreed. The only trouble is that I still want to have my stories looking good in my Word (or whichever other editor I use...) file(s), outside of Literotica, so at the end of the day, on there, I'd like actual italics rather than <i></i>, so if I tag as I go along, I will still need to untag them for my desktop files after the fact.

But hey, life is not perfect and can't have everything in it!

Removing the tags afterward is fairly easy to do using the "find / replace" functions. However, I would encourage you to do that in a separate document in case you decide to submit an edited version of your story later on.

I'm habituated to just add the tags as I go, but I'm trying to use italics less often. Since more and more readers are utilizing their phone or tablet to read the stories, it just makes sense to me to make sure the meaning won't be lost if they can't see that emphasis.

I've been using italics for internal monologue, but Chicago Manual of Style says I should have been putting that in quotes this entire time...

 

[yibala2]

thanks!!

Like NotWise, I put the tags in as I go. If you are doing the mark up of you doc as you go, how much trouble would it be to place the tags? None. If you wait until the end to do the mark up then again, how much more tedious could putting the tags in also be?

This whole post has been very helpful, especially in light of the current post/discussion in the Hangout about time to publish. I am going to start doing this from now on.

-Yib

 

[Bramblethorn]

That's how I used to do it too. It certainly works, but you have to be so careful to match each opening and closing tag. Kinda interferes with the writing flow. Worst thing, though, is putting the markup in the text confuses spelling and grammar checkers, and text-to-speech readers too.

If I had a dollar for every time I've "closed" with <i> instead of </i>...

Conversion tools are also useful if you're posting to more than one platform. When I'm publishing on That Other Site I'm submitting and formatting in Word, not HTML.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I prefer NO formatting at all. For me, it's about how the words are used, not what they look like. Emphasis can be done in upper case without bold or italics or even underscore.

There might be a case for an occasional indented paragraph or two.

Italics have a certain je ne sais quoi that capitals don't match.

I don't want my readers to hear BRIAN BLESSED SHOUTING IN THEIR HEAD every time I write a foreign word or a thought.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I'm habituated to just add the tags as I go, but I'm trying to use italics less often. Since more and more readers are utilizing their phone or tablet to read the stories, it just makes sense to me to make sure the meaning won't be lost if they can't see that emphasis.

Any modern phone/tablet browser will display italics just fine. This is only an issue with the Literotica mobile app, and there doesn't seem to be any reason to believe that more than a small percentage of readers are using that app to access the site.

I've been using italics for internal monologue, but Chicago Manual of Style says I should have been putting that in quotes this entire time...

CMoS notwithstanding, plenty of commercially published fiction uses italics for thoughts. They're especially useful when the internal monologue is adjacent to actual speech and using quotes for both is likely to confuse.

 

[SisterJezabel]

Thanks to the OP I now have Ice, Ice, baby on loop in my head! Word to your mother!

 

[Bray123]

I paste:
</i>

<i>

between the paragraphs. Then I only need to paste & clean (remove the irrelevant element) on the start and finish of the section. Sorted in a few seconds.

 

[NoJo]

Italics have a certain je ne sais quoi that capitals don't match.

I don't want my readers to hear BRIAN BLESSED SHOUTING IN THEIR HEAD every time I write a foreign word or a thought.

Lol I'd love to suck him off in a public library

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I paste:
</i>

<i>

between the paragraphs. Then I only need to paste & clean (remove the irrelevant element) on the start and finish of the section. Sorted in a few seconds.

Just make sure you don't span multiple paragraphs with a set of tags as you never can tell where Lit. will do a page break in a multi page story. And it doesn't pick up the dangling tab on the next page, so now the rest of your story is in whatever format of the last beginning tab was.

I don't think Lit. breaks a paragraph in half to conform to page length, so you might be safe with what you are doing.

 

[Emirus]

I agree with what Bramblethorn had to say about using italics and Brian Blessed (who has made a living out of two words for the last 40 years.)

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There might be a case for an occasional indented paragraph or two.
Italics have a certain je ne sais quoi that capitals don't match.

I don't want my readers to hear BRIAN BLESSED SHOUTING IN THEIR HEAD every time I write a foreign word or a thought.

Bramblethorn

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Writing in CAPITALS or bold lower case is crude and unnecessary. If you can’t get your point across by words in ordinary text then use italics. The idea is to not do anything which will detract from the person reading and enjoying the story which you have spent so much of your time on. If you, as the writer, want to make it difficult for yourself that’s up to you as long as you don’t make it difficult for the reader.

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