Mandler1 (imported) wrote: Fri Jun 01, 2012 5:51 pm Hey Cainanite

Thanks again for putting this all back together. Question though, I still have a few previously published stories that haven't been restored yet. Would it be less work for you if they were just re-submitted as new stories or would this just confuse the issue. Anything we can do to lighten the load let me know.

Cheers Mandler

Give me the names of your stories, and I'll see if I can edit them up for you. Don't re-submit them.

Dear Cainanite

So pleased you liked "Ricky takes charge".

Have just mailed you "First Boy- Conclusion" with a synopsis that may not be totally self explanatory. You may have to wade through the 2001 original for the background.

Melanie's surname is Scott-Hamilton. How does she recognise boy-eunuchs - assuming they are fully clothed of course?

C van D

C van D (imported) wrote: Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:17 pm Dear Cainanite

So pleased you liked "Ricky takes charge".

Have just mailed you "First Boy- Conclusion" with a synopsis that may not be totally self explanatory. You may have to wade through the 2001 original for the background.

Melanie's surname is Scott-Hamilton. How does she recognise boy-eunuchs - assuming they are fully clothed of course?

C van D

Scott-Hamilton! Okay. I'm going to change that right away. I was sure Melanie introduced herself as Melanie Swanson at one point. I even wrote it down when I found it. I did know her mother was a Scott relation, so I figured a Scott hyphen name was a possibility. My mistake. Scott-Hamilton it is. Thank you.

I won't spoil my story by telling you the little secret I worked out for Melanie to detect boy-eunuchs. My character Jason, asks her that exact thing when they have their meet-cute. I assure you though, her answer remains true to her nature.

I'll send you the complete story if you'd like to read it.

I'll head on over to check out "First Boy - Conclusion" right away. I'm excited to read it.

Thanks again,

Cainanite

Cainanite (imported) wrote: Fri Jun 01, 2012 7:03 pm Give me the names of your stories, and I'll see if I can edit them up for you. Don't re-submit them.

"Taxman" is the last one that hasn't been restored - thanks

talula wrote: Thu May 31, 2012 4:01 am No. We are not going to start a new thread every time we get a new story. If you wish to make one feel free and there is a spot on the forums for it but we have other things to do.

That was not exact, what I wanted to say. Sorry for my english, its not my motherlanguage. It would be nice, if I could see, which story is new. In the forum or in the archiv, that does not really matter.

Awkward42 (imported) wrote: Sun May 20, 2012 4:09 pm   means "non-breaking space", which is an instruction to the web browser not to split the line at that point.

Since web browsers collapse multiple space characters into a single space, people noticed that web browsers will let you stack up non-breaking spaces to force the browser not to collapse them into one, and started using it for simple formatting, when they should have been using a style sheet. It's one way to finesse an indent onto the beginning of each paragraph. It looks good if you are printing a document onto paper, but it breaks all the rules of text on the web. So we try to avoid using non-breaking spaces that way.

I think the editors and programmers are aware of the HTML character entities. The new editor (that will be used for new stories, and is currently used for fixing up old ones) does pretty well. But I have my doubts about trying to include instructions about HTML character entities, or other technical matters, for new submissions. It's much better to try to keep it as simple as possible for now. (It's hard enough to get people to use spellcheck!)

I know some people like the look of paragraphs with the first line indented, and/or a blank line between paragraphs. In fact, if you don't have a blank line or an indent, it makes it quite hard to spot paragraph breaks. It's possible to compose in an editor that is comfortable for you, then convert it to the format Cainanite described. FocusWriter and MarkdownPad are a couple of possibilities; Notepad++ can do a bunch of things to a document, like remove every blank line or the non-breaking spaces at the beginnings of paragraphs. Better if you can do it so Cainanite doesn't have to.

The key is probably to remember that you are not designing a document to be printed onto paper (or at least it is not the only thing). It's simpler than that. Sentences. Return at the end of paragraphs. No indent at the beginning. Spellcheck. No fonts, colors, and very little of other kinds of formatting. Maybe italics or bold used sparingly. Format as Cainanite mentioned.

Maybe in the future we can work on a few minor tweaks ... but in this case, simpler will still probably be better.

On the other hand, if you do spot a place in a story where a non-breaking space would make things better, let us know and we might fix it as time allows.

Just wanted to apologize to you, Cainanite. I had two stories I wanted to submit and read only the first post of this thread, so the pair include paragraph indentions! If you need me to, I can go in and edit them and re-send to the gmail so you don't have to fuss with them. Just let me know!

LuckyStrike (imported) wrote: Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:32 pm Just wanted to apologize to you, Cainanite. I had two stories I wanted to submit and read only the first post of this thread, so the pair include paragraph indentions! If you need me to, I can go in and edit them and re-send to the gmail so you don't have to fuss with them. Just let me know!

Don't worry about it. Just remember for future I prefer them without. Okay? Thanks.

Thanks very much for your contributions. I'll have them up soon.

Cainanite (imported) wrote: Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:38 pm Don't worry about it. Just remember for future I prefer them without. Okay? Thanks.

Will do!

Is it possible to set the date of the stories, when they were added, primarily the new stories?