wanderingaddict Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 Now, I'm pretty much inept at figuring things out on my own, so as my last resort I'm asking here. I'm trying to upload a new chapter, but all I've been able to gather is that it's easier to do so in OpenOffice than Word. Would anyone be willing to help me out a little here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest echtrae Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 What exactly are you looking for? Someone to guide you through the process, or do you have a specific question that needs answering? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderingaddict Posted September 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2007 well I convert it to an html document and all, but when I try to add it I'll get an error message two or three times before a new chapter is suddenly accepted and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xax Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 (edited) I'm not a mod, so this answer probably won't be correct in all (or maybe any) respects, but I think your problem might be due to an issue with the way OpenOffice & Word convert documents to HTML. I know when I tested out exporting a text document as html in Abiword, it added all sorts of gross 'dir="ltr" style="text-align:left"' stuff to all my paragraphs. AFFN might be choking on some weird export elements or properties like that, although that doesn't explain why it does let you add chapters after a few tries. I always use the "upload in text field" option when adding a new chapter, so I can be sure just what markup is there, but that generally means you have to add all your paragrahs tags & italics & whatnot by hand, which... is not the most fun. I can only suggest opening up those html documents and checking to see if they've got a lot of html gibberish-- you should really only be seeing <p>, <i>/<em>, and <b>/<strong> tags for most fics. But I could also be totally off my mark, so keep that in mind too, I guess. I hope this will be of some help! [EDIT:] oh yeah, and you also probably want to remove all the starting HTML from the document as well... Everything from the start of the file (which, depending on what kind of export it is, could be an <?xml> tag, a <!DOCTYPE> tag, or a plain <html> tag) to the <body> tag, and then the closing </body> and </html> tags at the end. Edited September 17, 2007 by xax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest echtrae Posted September 20, 2007 Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 Yes, definitely remove the <head> </head> (and anything in between), <html></html>, and <body></body>. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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