Guest lucretziathevagabond Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Hello everyone, I am a fanfiction writer (HP) who moved over from fanfiction.net as I realized my story lines were not... appropriate for minors. At any rate, when I posted my first chapter here, these symbols took the place of my apostrophes and quotation marks. I have never posted somewhere where I have to code anything; so if someone could tell me how to fix it, I would appreciate it. I went to the help section or whatever it is, but it didn't address my needs for the specific punctuation marks. Thanks, Jo (LV) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aoisuiren Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 That can happen sometimes when one goes from a non-HTML based writing to an HTML scripting. If you actually copy your work from what ever program you use, into a notepad, then save as TXT it should eliminate the need for HTML scripting of ' and ", assuming you posted on AFF. The downside is, you might need to go and find every bold, underline, and italic, and paragraph and add in the codes. Hope this helped, if not, sorry. I'd be happy to code it for you if you are having problems yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenwizard Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 I upload my chapters. I have word and when I'm done I save as webpage. That way any italics and other things I put it I don't have to do any coding for. When you change the file format it does it all for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonGoddess Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 The problem with using word to save as a webpage, is that it adds loads of formatting tags that are not allowed. So, good idea to do it, but you still have to go into notepad and strip it out. Could you give me a link so I can see what characters you're talking about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lucretziathevagabond Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 The problem with using word to save as a webpage, is that it adds loads of formatting tags that are not allowed. So, good idea to do it, but you still have to go into notepad and strip it out.Could you give me a link so I can see what characters you're talking about? Sure. My fiction is called Last Exit to Eden. Here's the aff.net link: Last Exit to Eden-the alien edition Thanks Jo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonGoddess Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 What I found when I looked in the tables were the following characters: Õ Ó Ò Which are all diacriticals for other languages. What software did you use to initially write this in? Oh, fixed it for you when I was looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lucretziathevagabond Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 I wrote it in English on Microsoft Word for Mac. I have it saved on a cd-rom in .doc form, and opened the chapter onto my desktop and added all the tags, then saved it to the desktop as a txt file. Thanks for fixing it; just let me know how to do so in the future. Thanks. Jo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonGoddess Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 oh it was an easy fix. If you run into this again, copy the data into a plain text editor. Select the oddball characters, and then do a search and replace with the correct one. After you're done making your edits, copy/paste it back into the text field and save your changes. Did you have some kind of oddball font in use for the document maybe? I'm STILL trying to figure out how exactly you got the diacriticals in there without deliberately inserting them. Did you try and upload it as a document, which isn't allowed (and it won't accept), or as an html file? If you did it as an html conversion from a word document, that is very likely where those characters came from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aoisuiren Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 The problem with using word to save as a webpage, is that it adds loads of formatting tags that are not allowed. So, good idea to do it, but you still have to go into notepad and strip it out.Could you give me a link so I can see what characters you're talking about? I find it easier to code by hand because you go get all those little tags it doesn't like, too. Either way no way seems too perfect and you have to go through the story. ...coding by hand also lends me yet another proof-reading, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexieannmalfoy Posted November 26, 2009 Report Share Posted November 26, 2009 I'm having the same problem and I don't know what to do here's my story What Do I Have To Do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danyealle Posted November 26, 2009 Report Share Posted November 26, 2009 OK, I've had this problem on other sites along with the issue of the formating stripping out all spaces and punctuation in the story (ergh) and I can safely tell you it's a microshit problem to do with one of their updates for office. There is a very easy solution for this.... for an existing document you need to open it in notepad then save it as a text. Once that is done open in it Word then put the formatting back in then save it as a .doc file. Close it wait a minute or so or clean out your temp files then open it again. When you open it again save it in HTML format. That should eliminate the problem. For a new document... save it as a .doc then close it wait a minute or so then open it again save it as an HTLM close it that SHOULD fix the problem and it should upload with no clitches you should be good to go then. This is how I do it and it seems to save the trouble for my end Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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