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ndenyal 🚫

Getting ready to post a new complete story. It's in one file with each chapter bracketed with ^h3^ ^/h3^ (the ^ represent the html markers). As I understand the instructions, the following should work to post every other day beginning with Chapter 2:

Title
Author

(text: expanded story description)

^h3^Foreword^/h3^

(text)

^h3^Chapter 1^/h3^

(text)

^h3^Chapter 2^/h3^

{date:+2a}

(text)

...other chapters follow, each with {date:+2a}

Will this work as I expect?

Replies:   Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)  Ernest Bywater
      
Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

@ndenyal

the date tags will work.

We'll have to remove the h3 tags and add {p} tags. We usually do that for you anyway.

      
Ernest Bywater 🚫

@ndenyal

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

quote

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.

end quote

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.

Replies:   Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)
     
Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

@Ernest Bywater

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

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

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

< h3>Chapter xx: It starts< /h3>

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

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

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

The above is wrong in that if you do use the {p} tag then the system will ignore 'chapter' keywords for splitting the file. You can't mix them.

If you're going to provide the {p} tags then you must use them wherever you want a split to occur.

So either tag everything needed with the {p} tag or tag none and rely on the moderator to take care of things if you have anything other than 'Chapter' like Prologue/Preface/Cast, etc...

I added the {p} tag to allow such things as:

{p}Prologue

text

{p}Part 1

text

chapter 1

text

chapter 2

text

{p}Part 2

text

Chapter 3

text

Chapter 4

text.

Where the story is divided at the part and chapter xx is ignored and this is different from the {t} tag that adds a section. In the above example, 'Part' is not a section header but part splitter.

Replies:   Ernest Bywater
      
Ernest Bywater 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

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?

Replies:   Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)
     
Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)
Updated:

@Ernest Bywater

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

It is the correct way. If you don't use any html to demarcate the line with the {p} tag in it, then when the html code is removed, the {p} tag will be at the end of the previous paragraph, and it won't be seen by the script as it needs to be at the start of a paragraph.

So yes, if submitting in html, you do need to do < p>{p}Preface< /p> for the line to be separate from the preceding paragraph.

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.

Replies:   Ernest Bywater
      
Ernest Bywater 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

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.

     
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