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New HTML editor for submiting stories

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gav
Code Monkey
After continual formatting problems with posting stories, I have overhauled the html editor on the submit story page. I have tested this in Firefox and IE7/8 and seems to give a fair representation of paragraph spaces.

For those of you pasting from Word, there's a special icon in the toolbar that will remove all that yucky goo that Word adds.

There's a spell checker there too, don't be afraid to use it!

Let me know if you have any problems......
WellMadeMale
Constant Gardener
There's a spell checker there too, don't be afraid to use it!

This bears repeating...Spell checker is your friend.

Gav is your savior (and mine)!
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nicola
Matriarch
Excellent, thanks Gav. Have a cookie:
Guest
Lurker
In case nobody has mentioned it yet, there's a spellchecker there, too.

Be sure to use it!

Please!

Takes a cookie and runs...
WellMadeMale
Constant Gardener
The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.
sassycheergirl
Lollipop Girl
I love spell checker we all know I need it!!!!
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nicola
Matriarch
The font size changer will be removed next week, we don't want tiny or overly large font sizes on site, it messes up the look of the site, and makes it hard to read for people on handhelds.
Guest
Lurker
Wonder how hard it would be to add some type of basic grammar checker I know I admittedly suck at it. Sure it may be a big help for a lot of people.
DirtyMartini
Purveyor of Poetry & Porn
Yes...I had problems earlier...my files are .wps files since that is the word processor that came with the Toshiba net book I've written all my stories on since September...I no longer use Word, but I would think it would be the same...
Anyway...I pasted a story in earlier, and the spacing was all messed up...lost the space between paragraphs...so, I copied and pasted my story from another site, which I usually do for poems now, since it preserves the spacing, but everything comes out in bold type..great for poems, but my story got rejected for not meeting Lush quality standards...
I since corrected it and re-submitted...still waiting...
Anyway...is there any easier way for me??? And how come as soon as I figure something out, you all got to go and change everything???
Later,
Alan.

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nicola
Matriarch
It's going through teething problems Alan. I suggest, like I do to everyone, put your story in a flat file format first of all, like notepad. Then paste it onto our site.

That should still be the safest way to go.

Allowing dozens of fonts people are copying over from Word is also not going to work, it changes the look of our site, which isn't something I want.

Gav will be back on Monday to address all this. The program we bought is very customisable, so hopefully it's easy for him to work out.
nicola
Matriarch
Alan, please do not touch your poem - when I verified it, it wasn't in bold. Only when it was published does it show as bold. Gav can look at it and see what's happening.
DirtyMartini
Purveyor of Poetry & Porn
Quote by nicola
Alan, please do not touch your poem - when I verified it, it wasn't in bold. Only when it was published does it show as bold. Gav can look at it and see what's happening.


That's interesting, because another author (xbob) told me he submits things and then when they publish, they show up bold...that was before the new changes...something going on...
When I submitted the poem, it was in bold...I copy my poems from another site...that is the only way I can preserve the spacing, I find...so, I expected the poem to be bold...don't think it is so bad for poems, though...

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Driver1963
Advanced Wordsmith
I am an old Word die hard. The program is so widely used, I made the assumption it was safe to use here. Now I know why my stories get rejected for formatting errors. Thanks for the help.
WellMadeMale
Constant Gardener
Quote by Driver1963
I am an old Word die hard. The program is so widely used, I made the assumption it was safe to use here. Now I know why my stories get rejected for formatting errors. Thanks for the help.


Driver - some commentary and tips - for your benefit (and other's).

In the story submission window: http://www.lushstories.com/submit-story.aspx

At the top of that window, 7 icons from the left ---to---right, there is a W icon. If after you've pasted your text into the submission window...you highlight all of your text via holding the keyboard shift key and dragging your mouse from upper left 1st word to lower right last word (with left mouse button pressed) to highlight everything...then you click on the W icon - you perform a function to remove all of the unnecessary Word.Doc formatting code which is embedded into the document (when you copy it from your Word application).

This will get rid of 99% of the code which messes up our system, upon our review to approve or reject a story - for formatting issues.

The story submission window will perform some spell checking. It does not support spotting grammatical issues or suggesting fixes for such. Sometimes the spell check is off too, I've noticed. Particularly for the common differences of spelling found between common British English and American English. If the word is spelled correctly in British English (that's good enough for us).

If the spell check tells you that a word is spelled incorrectly - open up a Google spelling definition or Websters or even an Urban Dictionary web page and check it. We are extremely lenient when it comes to spelling of jargon/slang words. If it's a common word to British/American/Australian Engish...and it's not spelled correctly - that's really just laziness on the part of the author (imo). Spelling is so easy to fix with use of the internet.

Another point to remember is that you can edit your manuscript from the story editor and ensure that your paragraphs are consistently indented - if you choose to indent a few spaces on each paragraph (please be consistent if you go that route) - as well as ensure that you have (1) one blank line between all paragraphs. Not two, not three, not four or five. I reject if I see excessive white space between paragraphs.

Also turn off all bold or all italics from this editor. All bold and all italicized stories get rejected out-of-hand.

Finally - before you submit the story to our reviewing queue, please click on the [PREVIEW STORY] button and you will see it appear, exactly as it is sent to us to look at. Do another proofread at this time. Proofreading and editing is a function of writing which is often overlooked by an author...I know I get tired of looking at my same story text, but it has to be done.

Keep in mind that when stories are displayed on different internet browsers - the end result often appears different across different versions and different flavors of browser.

What looks great on Windows Internet Explorer ver 7.0 can look complete screwed up on ver 8.0. And it's almost always guaranteed (so far, til we can find a fix to implement) to look different from Firefox to Google's Chrome to Internet Explorer to MacIntoshes Safari.

The knowledge of the browser differentiation - is why we moderators often look at a story using two or more internet browsers.

When I write anything...I try to keep in mind how it will be presented - in html as well as Microsoft Word or the older WordPerfect from Corel. But I'm not a coding professional. We don't expect you to be, either.
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