Posting Illustrated Stories

[dmallord]

I can't speak to all your questions, but:

1) Submit the story with Word with the images copy/pasted onto it. A simple copy/paste is all you need. Don't know about the technical stuff.

2) Bold and italics works just fine on the finished product that's posted, but some some reason, I'm unable to center any of the headings.

3) Upload the story with this, using Word. If you try to upload directly to Lit, it won't allow big files.

https://litupload.wetransfer.com/

Thank you for your response.

I will keep the litupload info in my writing folder as a 'golden nugget info item.'

From Electricblue66 I followed another link and found the centering command:

• Align Center - center aligned text. Please use <p align="center">Center Aligned Text Here</p> tags.
• This should be an example of that: <p align="center"> Hey All's Next Great Title Centered on the Page </p>

Lit's page also says that it supports the legacy HTML code for centering text. I have and use that one and it works:
<center> Title of my Story </center>

Hope this helps you out as well.

Dmallord

 

[ElectricBlue]

So the 'pretty cover page' I spent time getting to look like a book cover is out the window.

I appreciate your time and help. Dmallord

I think you have to shed the notion, "I want it to look like a book," and adopt the mind set, "It's going to be a Lit page with some images in it." Conceptually, they're two quite different things.

 

[HeyAll]

Thank you for your response.

I will keep the litupload info in my writing folder as a 'golden nugget info item.'

From Electricblue66 I followed another link and found the centering command:

• Align Center - center aligned text. Please use <p align="center">Center Aligned Text Here</p> tags.
• This should be an example of that: <p align="center"> Hey All's Next Great Title Centered on the Page </p>

Lit's page also says that it supports the legacy HTML code for centering text. I have and use that one and it works:
<center> Title of my Story </center>

Hope this helps you out as well.

Dmallord

I use that centering (and bolding) when submitting stories with copy/paste.

But when submitting Illustrated stories with Word, the centering doesn't work for me. Others might know the technique for it.

Also, brackets don't work for Word. Just bold and/or italics the Word text and it appears in the final product.

 

[dmallord]

I use that centering (and bolding) when submitting stories with copy/paste.

But when submitting Illustrated stories with Word, the centering doesn't work for me. Others might know the technique for it.

Also, brackets don't work for Word. Just bold and/or italics the Word text and it appears in the final product.

Hey ... HeyAll, or as I've learned the Plural form is 'Hey ... HeyAll of Y'all'

I wasn't aware that bold and/or italics would transfer to Lit w/o the brackets, e.g., <b></b> or <I></I> commands. I write in MS Word for Mac. Perhaps your version is different and is read differently by Lit than my version. Not sure of that. The Lit resource page I found says that the commands I quoted in another part of this thread work in all three: stories, illustrations, and illustrated stories. That they don't work for you points out that Lit's statement is not entirely accurate, it seems.

I haven't submitted an actual MS Word document for a very long time. It used to take forever to get them posted. I learned that I could just copy and paste them instead as you noted. That method is reviewed and posted much faster; even the 30K word stories.

When finished, I copy paste them [stories only] into the Lit Window using the legacy commands below. When I click on 'submit and preview' those elements show up as they are supposed to when posted. I have trouble with the Mac's 'long hyphen to indicate a pause between thoughts. I use the key stokes - option/hyphen and it looks good in the preview window; however, when it actually gets posted, it comes out as --. From another thread, I learned to substitute the HTML symbol &mdash; and that works. It has to be exactly &mdash; the semicolon must be there, and it has to be lowercase or it doesn't work. Now I write the story as I would using the Mac command, then during the final editing, I go back and do a find/replace to change that to read &mdash; It looks like a mess, but it works out when published on Lit. This is an extract I submitted and it was posted correctly.

<center><B> A Hunting We Will Go! </B></center>
<center><B> Written by </b></center>
<center><B> Dmallord </b></center>

<center>Copyright by dmallord, 2022, USA. All rights reserved. </center>

<center> 13,300 &mdash; MS Words </center>
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It certainly would be nice if the posted version looked like the MS Word version w/o all the added commands.

Thanks again for the info. Dmallord

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