Forum: Story Discussion and Feedback

From page 104 of my free guide:

https://bookapy.com/s/8/fiction-writing-and-style-guide

spaces added to code to stop it working

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WLPC recently introduce new special code for use in the submission of story files so that an author can upload one file but have different chapters appear on the site at later dates. The required code is in the Tagged Text format the site uses, but the code below has that code nested inside the HTML code for a HTML submission. The first chapter can not be scheduled, but all of the other chapters can be scheduled to a specific date and time frame or morning (a) or the evening (p), or a number of days after the previous chapter. When using the number of days the appearance date is cumulative, so if you set chapter two for three days after chapter one and chapter 3 to be three days after chapter two you can use the same code and chapter three will be six days after chapter one. I've put spaces in the code so it won't run when making the e-pub version.

To make the chapter appear on a set date you use (in this case it's set for the morning of 20 March 2021):

< p > { p } Chapter xx < / p >

< p > { date: 2021-03-20a } < / p >

To make the chapter appear on a set number of days later you use (in this case it's set for the evening of two days later):

< p > { p } Chapter xx < / p >

< p > { date: +2p } < / p >

The number in the date tag is the number of days after the previous chapter. Dates earlier than the date processed will be ignored. If there is no date tag the chapter will post with the first chapter.

Note: There are to be no spaces in the date tag, i.e. none between the curly brackets of { } as a space will cause it to be ignored and the chapter posted straight away.

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If you're submitting the story in HTML with chapter titles then it becomes:

< p > { p } Chapter xx < / p >

< p > { date: +2p } < / p >

< h 3 > Chapter xx: It starts < / h 3 >

< p > { p } Chapter xx < / p >

< p > { date: +2p } < / p >

< h 3 > Chapter xx: It continues < / h 3 >

.......................

The first time I submitted a story using this system and didn't include the html paragraph code of < p > the date code appeared a text in the story and it wasn't seen as a command by the system.

If I've got the above wrong Lazeez will soon correct me.

Just for a bit of clarification, I do not normally use the word chapter in my story chapter titles, but I did above hoping to clarify things, but seem to have been a little off target. When I submit a story I only ever use the word chapter as general text within the story or as a marker to show where I want the moderator to split the story. Thus a real life example for me would be more along the lines of:

< p > { p }Prologue < / p >

< h 3 > World background < / h 3 >

text

< p > { p }Chapter 01 < / p >

< h 3 > It starts < / h 3 >

text

< h 3 > It gets Complicated < / h 3>

text

< h 4 > A mess is made < / h 4 >

text

< p > { p }Chapter 02 < / p >

< p > { date: +2p } < / p >

< h 3 > It continues < / h 3 >

text

< h 4 > It's Stirred Up < / h 4 >

text

< h 3 > The Cleaner is Called < / h 3 >

text

< p > { p }Chapter 03 < / p >

< p > { date: +2p } < / p >

< h 3 > The Rubbish is Removed < / h 3 >

text

< h 3 > The Injured go to Hospital < / h 3 >

text

.............

Is this the correct way for a html submission? Or should I not use the < p > commands with the { p } commands?

By the way, the forum handlers doesn't convert tags other than the specifically indicated ones i, b, em, strong, quote, so you don't need to space out the { } for {date:+2a} for example.

Thanks for the info. I thought that may be the case, but wasn't prepared to take the risk.

I'm glad to get confirmation had the right way to set out the markers for the html submission.