Review submission previews and paragraphs question

[Evans]

First of all I'm not quite sure where to post this. I belive this is the right section but if it's not I apologise.


As anyone who has seen the "subtle" hint in my signature will know, I have been working on a small review of Secrets of Kenya recently.

It's slightly ameturish but I had hoped to submit it to the review section on this site. However every time I tryed the preview button in the submission section I found all my paragraphs and dividing lines removed, leaving a great block of text and ruining the planned layout.

Since the review section mentions HTML code I would assume it requires something along those lines to separate sentences? I am afraid I have no knowledge of such code.

[cjbowser]

The easiest way would be to use

to create a blank line.

[Evans]

The easiest way would be to use

to create a blank line.

Could you elaberate a little?

I'm realy sorry but my knoweldge of computer codes is terribley small (I've only just grasped the whole [i] [i/] for the forum text.

I'm am realy greatful for the reply though.

[cjbowser]

Here's an example. Let's say you're typing out your review for the Secrets of Kenya and you've just finished your first paragraph.



You just typed in

where you need the blank line to be and start typing the beginning of your second paragraph.



Hopefully this helps. You just type in

where ever you need the blank line to be. Technically, it doesn't have to be on it's own line, so if you screw up and put it here.



You will still receive the blank line after 'here.'

[Evans]

Thank you for the explaination, I think I understand a it a little better.

While your can I ask if there's simelar codes for Bold and Italic text? (presumebly [b] text [b] or [i] text [i])

[cjbowser]

to open the tag and same principle for italics

What you want bolded

what you want bolded and italicized

You can mix-n-match and have all kinds of fun!

[Evans]

The italics and bolding codes are working like a charm but I'm afraid the

code seems to do nothing for spacing.

Sorry to be such a bother about this.

[squashua]

OK.

Layout is a bitch with HTML unless you really know what you're doing. The concept with *PROPER* HTML is that you have to "encapsulate" everything with a start and an end HTML tag.

An HTML tag is anything that looks like: <this>
If you have an opening <this> you have to finish with a closing </this>

So, for example, if you were to embolden or italicize it would like this sentence.




If you were to create a proper paragraph with paragraph tags, it would be wrapped much like this sentence is wrapped.
</p>



Your subsequent paragraphs would also need to be wrapped as appropriate. There are also other ways to make line breaks.
</p>



Paragraphs are not normally indented; indentation requires a bit more manipulation of the style, which is ever so slightly more advanced than the bare basics I'm teaching you right now.
</p>

If you want to insert a bunch of line breaks, you can do this

without a closing tag (or
for completists). I tend to stay away from a line break if I can help it and stick with paragraph tags.

If you type a bunch of spaces, HTML consolidates them into a single space. If you need multiple spaces, type out "" without the quotes. Both the ampersand and closing semicolon are necessary to start and end the Nonbreaking Space. You can put multiple together to create a very long space. The practice of using (read: ABUSING) is frowned upon in general, but it does have some very accepted uses.

[squashua]

And make sure you run the review through a proper spellchecker before putting HTML into it and submitting.

[Evans]

And make sure you run the review through a proper spellchecker before putting HTML into it and submitting.

Thanks for the explaination. I shall try the whole thing again later tonight.

I've ran the damned through the spell checker over 7 seven times (a spell checker that trys to translate Nyarlathotep as market no less).


Anoyingly it still does not seem to like the tags( for example one the fitst two paragraphs go something like this.)



Secrets of Kenya ------------------------------------------.---------------------
-----------.--------------------.---------------------------.</p>



Like most of most other Secrets books.------------------------------.-----
---------------. ------------------------------------ </p>

(-- stands for text)

[squashua]

Are you submitting it cut-n-paste through Microsoft Word?

Make sure you save it as plain text (.txt) and then copy it from there. Word formats encodings into it's characters which trumps HTML.

[Evans]

Are you submitting it cut-n-paste through Microsoft Word?

Make sure you save it as plain text (.txt) and then copy it from there. Word formats encodings into it's characters which trumps HTML.

Ahhhh, I was copying and pasting it from a rich text docuement but the Italic and Bold text commands were working.

I have went ahead saved on in Note Pad. Would that be a better idea?

Edit: No I'm afraid even that yeields nothing (I've tryed directly copying and posting your demonstrartary paragraph into the preview section as well and even that still appears conjoined)

suceeds in creating a gap but It seems to only reach a lengh of about ----------

[squashua]

Where's this crap entry form you're putting this stuff into?

Also, for editing text, do a google search for "Textpad", it's so much better than Notepad.

[Evans]

Where's this cr*** entry form you're putting this stuff into?

Also, for editing text, do a google search for "Textpad", it's so much better than Notepad.

On the review section there is an entry for writing a review. There is a preview section on that (which I've been trying since this morning for an answer)

I'm realy sorry it has caused so much of a comotion.

[Evans]

Slight update on this folks. Though I still have'nt managed to get paragraph code to do anthing the line break code does work.

I submitted the review using that code to make the line breaks.

I'm realy greatful to everyone who helped with this code problem.