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Alex de Kok (c) 2002
I suspect most of us submit our creations via our member page. Here we have the option of cutting-and-pasting into the box provided, or forwarding a file which we may have prepared in .txt, .rtf or perhaps .doc format.
Usually, the reason for using some of these formats is that we might have some text styling which we want to use, such as bold oritalic. Literotica allows us to forward documents in forms which preserve these styling traits, but at a cost. The cost is delay, and a lot of the delay is because Laurel has to modify our opus to HTML-format to preserve the styling. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language and that is what is basically used to present pages to us via our Web browsers. There are other bells-and-whistles used such as Cascading Style Sheets and various scripting languages (Literotica uses PHP) but at the root of it all is plain old HTML.
We can help Laurel and ourselves by incorporating the relevant HTML tags that we need in a plain text submission which we can paste into the box provided. This saves Laurel work and means our work reaches our readers more quickly.
What follows is aimed at users of Windows(r) which I suspect is most of us.
Here's how to do it:
Can we use <h?> tags? And if so, what number should we start with to avoid conflicts with the surrounding page headings?
I was trying to use the HTML center symbols, and my story was getting rejected because I had the bold and center symbols in the wrong order.
Again, thank you for taking the time to share.
Sincerely Hubby77
Is this still relevant? I have lots of italicized text in my stories and they usually get published in 3-4 days from submission, would it happen faster if I followed this method?
Or a simple, easy to understand explanation. However you choose to see it, it was clear and concise. Well done.
Thanks for the useful, factual, and uncontroversial advice! I was wondering how to do that (bolds and italics) and have often used other character surrounding desired words just to "set them apart" from the rest of the text. I'll try to remember to use HTML. (Not that HTML is new to me, I just never knew using it here would work. Maybe I should have read the directions! :P )