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formatting code left in the story?

robotica 🚫
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Not sure if this belongs here.

While reading through some of the stories I notice there are the formatting code _text_ for emphasis or italic left in place instead of being converted to HTML em(?) tag. For example, Michael Loucks's A Well-Lived Life series contain several of them in the introduction/disclaimer, such as:



This series now has a companion series, _Good Medicine_, and there are several 'crossover' characters in Book 10. Generally speaking, you'll get more out of the _AWLL_ series if you read through _Good Medicine - Sophomore Year_ before you read _AWLL 2 - Book 10_, but it is not mandatory.

which appears in A Well-Lived Life 3 - Book 2 - The Inner Circle posted and concluded 2020Q4.

Or in Hungry Guy's Fembot and other stories in the Fembot/Femboug universe it appears in the story itself:



_Forget the stupid fembot, _ Justin thought, _I'm asking HER out when this is over!_

It should be a one-liner replacing '(wordboundary)_([^_]+)_(wordboundary)' with '(em)1(/em)' (the parenthesis surrounding em and /em should be angled bracket of HTML but I can't defeat board's formatting urrrgh! Also (wordboundary) is backslash-b or similar regexp character)

Don Lockwood's Finding A Place is the only one I can find that has the asterisk variant *text* left in place -- the synopsis reads:



Sheila and Brendan are freshmen at Stanford. He's a brain, she's a jock. Warning: do *not* eat anything sweet while reading this story. You *will* go into sugar shock. And, yes, it *is* supposed to be this sweet and sappy, OK? *grin*

So maybe that variant is now fixed.

Replies:   AmigaClone
Ernest Bywater 🚫

The following is based on my experiences with the submission wizard system.

The first thing to know is the Formatting Guide which has changed a little over the years with extra options being added:

https://storiesonline.net/doc/Text_Formatting_Information_Guide#htm

The second thing to know is the system will recognise a limited set of html code. It will remove a lot of excess html code, but only if it's entered correctly and recognised as unaccepted html code. Thus, if there's an excess space in the code it is seen as text and not code thus < em> will be seen as text due to the excess space before the 'e' in that example. It's also possible the system won't recognise something as being code and see it as text, so that will be left in as text.

If the submission has mixed code types, then all bets are off as to how the system will react.

Ernest Bywater 🚫

When errors like this are noted in a story display it's best to use the Contact from and notify Lazeez with the URL of the page concerned and copy the appropriate text into your message, also include a section of good text so he can easily find it.

AmigaClone 🚫
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@robotica

Also, when the author has an available email, you can try to contact them directly.

I am not sure if the synopsis/description allows the use of any formatting codes.

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