Paulo, Kristoff, plix - have a question. In story guidelines, it is written:

HTML code: Unacceptable. Plain text with bold or italic only. NO LINKS!

I'm not sure what is meant here. In recent submissions, I was thinking of inserting HTML tags into the body of pasted text (in "Story Text" box), expressly for signifying certain text to be italic or bold - but the ruling that HTML code is "unacceptable" convinced me I should not do that.

However, I don't see a mechanism for specifying text to be italic or bold in the Story Submissions page - unlike, for example, these Board pages running on vBulletin software. What is the preferred way to do that for story submissions?

Thanks,

Finder

The story formatter sometimes plays well with "B" and "I" settings copied from your document. Sometimes it doesn't. You can insure these settings by typing a bracketed B or I, without spaces:

[ b ] and the [ / b ] will close it. Same things for italics or underline. ('i' or 'u').

Example: Your text will [ b ]look[ /b ] like this in [ i ]your document[ / i ].

Take the spaces out, though, or it won't work.

The reason for HTML prohibition, other than the chance of malicious code being submitted, is that the formatter screws it up 99.9% of the time.

One reason I haven't worked on the "Simon Compendium" any more, as it has a LOT of code in it and it's just a lost cause trying to get it 'to take' here.

Couldn't you take it into a Word Processor that reads html and then resave it as a text file? Or is it much more complicated?

It won't preserve the bold or italic format.

Interjection if I may:

Any of you office or printshop workers out there remember back in the early 90's or thereabouts, when technologies were just coming out, and useless as shit?

Back then, the answer to Paolo's situation with the Compendium from my inept boss was "Hey, I got this program... just print the file out, scan it, and OCR trace it. It'll preserve everything!"

To this day, I HATE OCR. It's never worked well enough to rely upon... and thusly makes a joke out of the only idea I have to fix the bold/italic preservation problem

StefanIsMe (imported) wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:48 pm Interjection if I may:

Any of you office or printshop workers out there remember back in the early 90's or thereabouts, when technologies were just coming out, and useless as shit?

Back then, the answer to Paolo's situation with the Compendium from my inept boss was "Hey, I got this program... just print the file out, scan it, and OCR trace it. It'll preserve everything!"

To this day, I HATE OCR. It's never worked well enough to rely upon... and thusly makes a joke out of the only idea I have to fix the bold/italic preservation problem

I sometimes used OCR, when I was at school. But...there was regularly occurring thought: "it would be faster to retype this, than to fix errors".