Supported non character symbols list?

[TheExperimentalist]

For awhile, anything centered, disappeared upon publishing. Usually after page 1. Sometimes, it would show up a day later or if you hit "refresh" a time or two. So without the scene breaks, it made the story a little more disjointed to read.

But my last story I just recently published worked out fine.

So maybe they fixed it. It seems to have been related to the vanishing horizontal rule issue, which I also can't seem to replicate anymore.

 

[randomletters42]

For awhile, anything centered, disappeared upon publishing. Usually after page 1. Sometimes, it would show up a day later or if you hit "refresh" a time or two. So without the scene breaks, it made the story a little more disjointed to read.

But my last story I just recently published worked out fine.

I just read through that post about it. Although I will note it's in author hangout not tech support. So who knows if anyone running the site is reading it?

 

[TheExperimentalist]

So maybe they fixed it. It seems to have been related to the vanishing horizontal rule issue, which I also can't seem to replicate anymore.

(Would have been nice to have a quick "hey y'all, we fixed this" comment somewhere, but whatever.)

 

[TheExperimentalist]

I just read through that toast reporting. The issue, although I will note that it's in the author hangout not Tech Support. So who knows if anyone running the site is reading it?

Interesting. I was sure there was a similar thread in tech support somewhere as well.

 

[randomletters42]

Interesting. I was sure there was a similar thread in tech support somewhere as well.

Well I didn't look. Maybe so.

 

[dirk2024]

I just read through that post albout it. Although I will note it's in the author hangout not Tech Support. So who knows if anyone running the site is reading it?

I want to say that people tagged the admin team, but I'm not sure.

Plus, there were other threads about this issue.

 

[anthrodisiac]

Which 5 don't make the cut?

_ _ _ _ _

Damn. I cannot write them.

A B C D E F _ H I J _ L M N O P _ R S T U V _ X Y Z

I am okay with numbers. Too.

 

[dirk2024]

(Would have been nice to have a quick "hey y'all, we fixed this" comment somewhere, but whatever.)

 

[dirk2024]

_ _ _ _ _


I am okay with numbers. Too.

Aww Hell no. that's a dealbreaker!!!

 

[IWroteThis]

So maybe they fixed it. It seems to have been related to the vanishing horizontal rule issue, which I also can't seem to replicate anymore.

I just checked several of my stories and the problem persists.

 

[TheExperimentalist]

I just checked several of my stories and the problem persists.

Well, so much for that hope.

 

[EmilyMiller]

For awhile, anything centered, disappeared upon publishing. Usually after page 1. Sometimes, it would show up a day later or if you hit "refresh" a time or two. So without the scene breaks, it made the story a little more disjointed to read.

But my last story I just recently published worked out fine.

It’s still a problem. It’s not been fixed. But it’s weird, some centered text (including dividers of some sorts) appears, others doesn’t.

 

[FrancesScott]

You might get some help from this "How To" from @FrancesScott https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-format-a-story-with-html

I didn’t attempt to catalog all allowable HTML, but you can use things like — and the like.

The centered text on page two onwards bug is still unresolved. I just went and checked with my latest story. It’s apparently to do with how the page is rendered when you do a next page on a story - so it affects stories new and old. It’s not a bug in the conversion to HTML process.

And even text that is centered in Word or RTF docs that are uploaded has the same issue.

 

[ADirtyPerv]

_ _ _ _ _

Damn. I cannot write them.

A B C D E F _ H I J _ L M N O P _ R S T U V _ X Y Z

I am okay with numbers. Too.

Oh, c'mon Anthy! Some consistency, please!

 

[anthrodisiac]

Oh, c'mon Anthy! Some consistency, please!

Consistency is for the weak!

*cue Monty Python scene of me being thrown into the abyss*

 

[anthrodisiac]

Consistency is for the weak!

*cue Monty Python scene of me being thrown into the abyss*

 

[TheLobster]

You can use whatever Unicode characters you want (yes, even those introduced later than 2008 ), but bear in mind that some emoji combinations might not be portable; Apple in particular likes to add their own. It shouldn't be a problem for the common ones, though, like those used in text messages.

As to how to include them: both putting them verbatim into the text (in UTF-8) and using HTML entities (e.g. &#x1234 works just fine. The latter option is less likely to be messed with by the Lit's processing algorithms (which like to turn em-dashes into double-hyphens, for example, which means you need — to actually get —).

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Broaden your perspective on the use of special characters beyond what might appear on a screen.

Even if you never intend to convert your story to audio yourself, have some consideration for any visually impaired readers who might want to explore your tale. How will whatever text-to-speech application they employ to have the words spoken to them handle these characters? There are some that will translate things like, "Smiling face emoji", while others will read it as, "Colon, close parentheses".

I strongly suggest that you listen to your story yourself before publishing it with emojis and other special characters to ensure that the symbols work when spoken and not just read with your eyes.

 

[Britva415]

There are some that will translate things like, "Smiling face emoji", while others will read it as, "Colon, close parentheses".

Just saying, this would be true if it were a non-Unicode emoji.

A Unicode smiling face emoji wouldn't be mistaken for a 90's-style asciimoji, though a "smart" (enough) text-to-speech reader could translate the colon right longbow to the corresponding meaning.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Just saying, this would be true if it were a non-Unicode emoji.

A Unicode smiling face emoji wouldn't be mistaken for a 90's-style asciimoji, though a "smart" (enough) text-to-speech reader could translate the colon right longbow to the corresponding meaning.

Speak on my iPhone reads out emojis just fine. I’ve not tried it with emote icons, same as I don’t have any stories called, ‘Ye Olde Storey For Yours Manifest Pleafures.”

 

[Britva415]

Pleaſures

fixed it for you

Thanks, Unicode!

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Just saying, this would be true if it were a non-Unicode emoji.

A Unicode smiling face emoji wouldn't be mistaken for a 90's-style asciimoji, though a "smart" (enough) text-to-speech reader could translate the colon right longbow to the corresponding meaning.

I think you are assuming a lot, in addition to ignoring the other special characters mentioned in comments above. I'm just suggesting that others don't assume either.

I know that I have had to rewrite sections of text conversation in stories that were being converted to speech by AI applications such as Amazon Polly due to emoticons not being translated correctly. Then there are simple characters such as an asterisks, when used as section break indicators that can also get misinterpreted. The technology in one translation method isn't that different than in another.

 

[randomletters42]

Just had some related questions:

1. Is there any way at all to control the page breaks? Like ..

<div style="page-break-after: always;"></div>

(for cases where youd otherwise get a final page thats a sliver or fragment of a sentence, you'd move the page break up some)

Or really, any way to control page length at all?

2. Is there any way to specify not to wrap between the spaces of a phrase? Like ..

<nobr>label: value</nobr>

(having "label:" the end of the line, with its value beginning the next makes reading it very odd)

 

[TheExperimentalist]

Just had some related questions:

1. Is there any way at all to control the page breaks? Like ..

<div style="page-break-after: always;"></div>

(for cases where youd otherwise get a final page thats a sliver or fragment of a sentence, you'd move the page break up some)

Or really, any way to control page length at all?

2. Is there any way to specify not to wrap between the spaces of a phrase? Like ..

<nobr>label: value</nobr>

(having "label:" the end of the line, with its value beginning the next makes reading it very odd)

For #2 you could try a unicode non-breaking space? But I don't know how you'd actually test it.

 

[FrancesScott]

Just had some related questions:

1. Is there any way at all to control the page breaks? Like ..

<div style="page-break-after: always;"></div>

(for cases where youd otherwise get a final page thats a sliver or fragment of a sentence, you'd move the page break up some)

Or really, any way to control page length at all?

2. Is there any way to specify not to wrap between the spaces of a phrase? Like ..

<nobr>label: value</nobr>

(having "label:" the end of the line, with its value beginning the next makes reading it very odd)

You can’t use embedded CSS-like code. As far as I know, the site strips out a lot of stuff and then creates its own. In particular, I have never seen any pages shorter than the magical 3,500 - 3,700 (or whatever it is) words long, except the final one. If it was possible, someone would have done it by now.