I'm having trouble getting something to display here the way it would in a plain old text viewer program, something in the importer is mashing stuff together. Didn't SOL used to have a 'sandbox' to try out your proposed formatting? I can't find it.
I'm having trouble getting something to display here the way it would in a plain old text viewer program, something in the importer is mashing stuff together. Didn't SOL used to have a 'sandbox' to try out your proposed formatting? I can't find it.
Under Authors, there is a Text Formatting Guide. There, you can find a link for the Formatting Previewer.
I think it only does previews of text in SOL format.
https://storiesonline.net/author/formatPreviewer.php
If by 'display here' you mean in stories, the fine, but if you mean in the forum, then many things won't work.
Okay, a mix of HTML and markdown seems to be working. Adding the HTML code to break a line (the actual code doesn't show here in this forum) to the end of every line breaks the mess apart again. If I precede every line with "- " (a dash and a space) the system interprets that as a table and sets the whole group off with a vertical line. Not sure if the break at the end is still needed, but it works.
I like the table that the start-a-line-with-a-dash provides, but the dash isn't converted. We have the vertical line AND the dash. I mean, it works, but it's not as clean as I'd like.
The previewer in the formatting guide that I couldn't find last night and LJ provided a link to after I gave up and came here definitely does NOT show the same results as the same code in the revised text I submitted last night and is now active in Chapter 4 of "The Missile". So, experiments will have to be done on the production server. :(
This is going to be an ongoing issue, as this is a GameLit story with frequent reference to the Hero's stats.
And now I am officially confused. I re-loaded chapters 4 and 5 with a couple of nits fixed and all 'tables' formatted the way it worked in chapter 4, and now all tables in both chapters are wrong again. Why is the first line in the table indented as if it's a paragraph? And why is the first paragraph AFTER the table jammed up against it without a blank line between them? I can fix that one, though, with another < br>. And, most of all, where's the vertical line I had this morning?
Broken lines are done with {br} tags.
The vertical line (along with the indentation) is with a {block}{/block} pair.
You should read the site's formatting guide about tags:
https://storiesonline.net/doc/Text_Formatting_Information_Guide#tags
Experimenting on your end without talking to me is a waste of your and my time.
Read the guide, ask me for clarification of what you don't understand.
I've always used the {br} tag for centering long titles, so they'll center correctly, just as I do when publishing. Especially with the extra "Chapter #:" attached to each and every chapter title. Yet that's only because I'm obsessed with text labels, whereas most don't use them at all.
I've always used the {br} tag for centering long titles, so they'll center correctly,
What does the {br} have to do with centering? It's a line break.
ETA: Got my answer. Multi-line chapter titles.
I've always used the {br} tag for centering long titles, so they'll center correctly,
What does the {br} have to do with centering? It's a line break.
The clue is in the word I bolded above. IANAA, but I'd expect titles would have to be single paragraphs which {br} keeps but newline breaks; also if the title is long enough to likely need more than one line, using {br} lets you choose where it wraps rather than having it wrap at some random position near the end - remember readers can have different sized monitors, can have larger or smaller windows than yours, and can resize them, all of which influence where the line wraps if {br} is not used, and {br} anchors a line wrap if the window is resized narrow enough to require more than one.
if the title is long enough to likely need more than one line
Aha, I wasn't thinking about a multi-line title.
Thanks.
For other readers, I had not wanted to bother LJ. I mean, he's got better things to do than deal with this. However, he's involved now and we're passing emails back and forth while we work out how to best do what I want. I'll update this when we're done.