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I have problems posting my stories on BC. Let me explain, I write the text on MSword, edit it, have Holly edit it, edit it again and then change the text to HTML. Everything is wonderful so I click my heels together and download the HTML version at BC. I preview the story and guess what? All my spacing between the sentences or paragraphs disappear so I check my HTML version and lo and behold the spacing is still there. Okay, I get that I'm supposed to do something between point A and point B but I just don't get it. The last story I posted, Really I had to manually space the whole story before I pushed the save button. I will be posting my Twins fluff piece soon in three parts, it's over sixty thousand words and to be honest I don't have time to do the spacing manually so if I can't figure out how to post the story with the spacing then unfortunately it will be one large text twenty thousand words each, Sorry, but I have no idea of what to do, and before someone says use dupral or some other format, I have no idea what those are and where to find them. My computer is an Apple and if some format will work for me, explain it in the most elemental terms possible because I'm not computer literate. You want me to put the outside skin on a building or install glass in opening so far out of square it shouldn't be installed, but I can do that, it's just that computer formats have me flummoxed, Arecee
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Phone Me
^ what the title says ^^ I will explain it and show you how to do it.
uh why
Why convert to html when all you should do is copy paste the text version straight into the add story spot.
Because if you use formatting
such as Italics, bold. the different sized text using [big] or [small], you need to save your text as .html first before copying and moving the text into the BCTS window to preserve that formatting.
If you have no html tags at all, then a straight text copy from word is fine.
Sephrena
What I do in Windows (guessing Apple is similar)
In Word, I save the document as "Web Page Filtered"
Then I open the htm file in Notepad and copy and paste it here on BC
Down at the bottom of the screen I click on "Input Select" and change it to "Filtered HTML w/o Line Breaks" (The 3rd choice down).
That usually keeps all my formatting and displays correctly.
{{Hugs}}
Frank
I already
talked with Arecee and showed how I handled the process. The filtered w/o breaks and the filtered w/breaks input .html type is also another means of fixing it too. ^^ There are several methods to arrive to the same end result.
Sephrena
MS Word is notorious for generating problems
The publishing system used by BC is a compromise between usability for people who don't want to fiddle with HTML and people who are quite comfortable. Because of this, line breaks are handled differently than they are in true HTML and completely differently than they are in MS Word, because MS Word uses a type of internal "stylesheet" that fiddles with the display and translates that into embedded HTML stylesheets when you use it to output "HTML."
Unfortunately, BC doesn't support full HTML with CSS Stylesheets, because BC itself uses CSS stylesheets to format its pages, and it's astonishingly easy for random stylesheet modifiers to wind up breaking the "look and feel" of BC pages. (What, you thought it was magic that every story has a common appearance on the page?)
So when you combine MS Word pigheadedness and (necessary) BC intransigence, one often sees problems, not least of which is that MS Word generates incredibly ugly and verbose HTML code which is very prone to be susceptible to internal errors if one later tries to edit the outputted code.
http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog/18372/publishing-with-microsoft-word
http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog/19347/paragraphs
As Sephrena pointed out, Notepad (and textedit on the Mac) produce cleaner HTML which can be more easily dealt with after the fact.
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
Arecee, if you use Google
g-mail or yahoo mail, you keep the spacing. then you can copy and post here.
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