Cainanite (imported) wrote: Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:01 pm Scrap it??? Never.

I have untruncated it, and restored it.

The Wayback Machine strikes again!

Speaking of that, can't you go there and cut and paste a story? You know, paste it into a format that will work for the E.A.?

Then, you can send it in? I don't know. IT seems like there should be an easy way.

They can tell you better than I can but "It seems like there should be an easy way" is just next to impossible, sometimes.

Even between fairly well behaved word processors, the hidden coding screws with everything you do.

When I changed the format (colors and layout) on my website, WORD97 inserted curly quotes in everything and I had to search all of them out and replace them with regular quotes. All the special characters like those curly quotes just cause endless, time wasting grief.

A-1 (imported) wrote: Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:19 am Speaking of that, can't you go there and cut and paste a story? You know, paste it into a format that will work for the E.A.?

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Dave (imported) wrote: Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:15 am hen, you can send it in? I don't know.

IT seems like there should be an easy way.

It honestly takes about as much time to copy and past the story from the Wayback Machine, and eliminate all the extraneous coding in it, inserting the paragraph breaks, etcetera, as it does to do it from the back-up Archive Talula has set up.

Because of all the shortcuts Talula has created for us in the editing process, it is usually faster to just ignore the Wayback Machine. I honestly only use the Wayback Machine when there is a special language character that doesn't translate, or the text has been truncated, or missing (which is very rare).

With some very complicated stories, I have used the Wayback Machine to make it easier on myself, it still takes a lot of editing though, to make it ready for the new archive.

The whole idea is to make the new Archive the premiere story site on the internet, and to make them easier to read, and easier to transfer if we ever change formats again. The stories contained on the Wayback Machine, in their present formatting, are what we are trying to get away from.

It remains a good tool to have though.