Apostrophe problem in summary?

[Deadman]

I’m noticing a problem with the Buffy summaries. It looks like words like “Buffy’s” as  well as “it’s” now comes out as “Buffy39s” as well as “it39s”.

Seems like in the Television category I have at least one that has an apostrophe in the summary and it looks normal. But I have also noticed that several are missing a sentence ending period.

Did something happen or can I somehow edit it?
 

[BronxWench]

1 hour ago, Deadman said:

I’m noticing a problem with the Buffy summaries. It looks like words like “Buffy’s” as  well as “it’s” now comes out as “Buffy39s” as well as “it39s”.

Seems like in the Television category I have at least one that has an apostrophe in the summary and it looks normal. But I have also noticed that several are missing a sentence ending period.

Did something happen or can I somehow edit it?
 

More gremlins. I’ve tried to edit that myself, and even I can’t fix it. 

[Deadman]

3 minutes ago, BronxWench said:

More gremlins. I’ve tried to edit that myself, and even I can’t fix it. 

There definitely should be some kind of magic spell for this. Maybe because it seems to mostly be happening to me, it’s a personal gremlin?

[BronxWench]

2 hours ago, Deadman said:

There definitely should be some kind of magic spell for this. Maybe because it seems to mostly be happening to me, it’s a personal gremlin?

I’ve been debating fireballs myself, since it’s happening to everyone. Apostrophes are turned into numbers, punctuation disappears, and boldface text is just not on. I really do wish I was a coder somedays…  

[Deadman]

17 hours ago, BronxWench said:

I’ve been debating fireballs myself, since it’s happening to everyone. Apostrophes are turned into numbers, punctuation disappears, and boldface text is just not on. I really do wish I was a coder somedays…  

Should we be worried that the Gremlins might get into the wires and eats the connections?

[WillowDarkling]

On 7/19/2024 at 7:22 PM, Deadman said:

Should we be worried that the Gremlins might get into the wires and eats the connections?

Honestly, I think we’re WAY beyond that point by now… I think they’re in the fucking software… they’re in the fucking closet, trying on our heels, sparkly dresses and our favourite lipstick at this point. 

[Deadman]

On 7/20/2024 at 7:43 PM, WillowDarkling said:

Honestly, I think we’re WAY beyond that point by now… I think they’re in the fucking software… they’re in the fucking closet, trying on our heels, sparkly dresses and our favourite lipstick at this point. 

Maybe we should conduce some kind of exorcism?

[GeorgeGlass]

Anybody happen to have a Word macro for turning bold text into all-caps text (that is actually in all caps, and not just in an all-caps font)? 

[WarrenTheConey]

Whatever it is, it's really gnawing at my obsessive side. >.>

It seems that the problem only happens to things that are edited.

But whatever is added in the very first instance, seems to work properly.

Anyone who wants to have a clean description or tags, be sure to make the first post count.

[Deadman]

18 hours ago, GeorgeGlass said:

Anybody happen to have a Word macro for turning bold text into all-caps text (that is actually in all caps, and not just in an all-caps font)? 

I don’t think that there’s a problem with caps words on the site that I’m aware of.

[Deadman]

14 hours ago, WarrenTheConey said:

Whatever it is, it's really gnawing at my obsessive side. >.>

It seems that the problem only happens to things that are edited.

But whatever is added in the very first instance, seems to work properly.

Anyone who wants to have a clean description or tags, be sure to make the first post count.

Yeah, I tend to make sure I’m writing well. The only place where I need help is the Tags which I like to be accurate between WIP and Complete.

[Wilde_Guess]

Hi, Deadman.

3 hours ago, Deadman said:

I don’t think that there’s a problem with caps words on the site that I’m aware of.

GeorgeGlass would have no choice but to switch bold to ALL CAPS text.  Using an “all-caps font” would see the font stripped and substituted for whatever font is actually used.  Capital A is unicode 0041.  Lowercase a is unicode 0061.  So, the “lower case a that is a capital A in font x” will go back to a lowercase a.

Thanks.

[GeorgeGlass]

Right. Since bolding doesn’t show up on AFF, what I’m looking for is a macro that can turn bolded text (which I sometimes use for emphasis) into ALL-CAPS TEXT throughout a document. I’ve written macros that can make lots of other kinds of systematic formatting changes, but changing the case of letters is a bit beyond me.

[Deadman]

On 7/23/2024 at 8:18 PM, Wilde_Guess said:

Hi, Deadman.

GeorgeGlass would have no choice but to switch bold to ALL CAPS text.  Using an “all-caps font” would see the font stripped and substituted for whatever font is actually used.  Capital A is unicode 0041.  Lowercase a is unicode 0061.  So, the “lower case a that is a capital A in font x” will go back to a lowercase a.

Thanks.

Interesting. Didn’t know that you could do that.

[Deadman]

On 7/23/2024 at 9:37 PM, GeorgeGlass said:

Right. Since bolding doesn’t show up on AFF, what I’m looking for is a macro that can turn bolded text (which I sometimes use for emphasis) into ALL-CAPS TEXT throughout a document. I’ve written macros that can make lots of other kinds of systematic formatting changes, but changing the case of letters is a bit beyond me.

Do people use a lot of bolded text in AFF stories? I usually only do it at the beginning and end. Often for either an “author’s note” or for “the end”.

[GeorgeGlass]

On 7/26/2024 at 4:03 PM, Deadman said:

Do people use a lot of bolded text in AFF stories? I usually only do it at the beginning and end. Often for either an “author’s note” or for “the end”.

Like I said, I sometimes use it for emphasis, mainly when the text is already italicized (eg, because it’s a character’s thoughts). Also, chapter titles.