PK staff testing story uploads

gal-texter

Rating: G
Genres: Humor, Horror
Relationships: Ron & Luna
Book: Ron & Luna, Books 1 - 4
Published: 30/06/2008
Last Updated: 24/07/2008
Status: in_progress

Portkey fic staff testing story uploads here. No need to report this story; I'm one of the people who'd get those reports anyway. :) PK staff make these tests from time to time. --------- Latest test: can PK take Word .doc uploads again?

Chapters

1. smart quotes, font colors in HTML

2. can we upload .DOC files?

1. smart quotes, font colors in HTML

This document was saved in Microsoft Word 2003 as a filtered webpage.

italics

bold

underlined

“smart / curly quotation marks”

"straight quotes"

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To show text in different colors, use the "font color" HTML command.

Please share alternate solutions here.

Note that Microsoft Word 2003 uses the span style = color command when saving documents as webpages.

My CRUDE solutions:

1. Save the document in Word as a filtered webpage,

then use another software (like Microsoft Front Page) to find and replace those commands with the font color one.

OR

2. For chapters where you'd really want texts in colors other than black, write it in an HTML editor like Front Page.

I've shown the syntax below, but you have to remove the * to make them work!

This WILL work in Portkey's fanfic section: <*font color='#3333FF'>text in blue font<*/font>

This WON'T work in Portkey's fanfic section: <*span *style='color:blue'>text in blue<*/span>

This WILL work in Portkey's fanfic section: <*font color='#33CC00'>text in green<*/font>

This WON'T work in Portkey's fanfic section: <*span *style='color:green'>text in green<*/span>

This WILL work in Portkey's fanfic section: <*font color='#FF0000'>text in red color<*/font>

This WON'T work in Portkey's fanfic section: <*span *style='color:red'>text in red<*/span>

To get the hexadecimal codes for colors, go to the forums and either:

-- hit the font color button in the "Add Reply" screen, then take note of the code, OR

-- read this post.

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2. can we upload .DOC files?

NOTE BEFORE YOU HIT THE "REPORT" link:

Fic co-admin here testing if PK would accept uploads saved as Word documents. No need to hit that "Report this story to admins" link as I'm one of those who get those reports.

Chapter Title in Big Blue Fonts

Story text in plain, normal-sized fonts.

Boldface

Italics

Underscore

However, if you see error messages like

"You uploaded text plain."

Or

"Tidying Chapter Text... FAILED"

Then you'd have to upload your chapters as HTML files.

TEST RESULT:

Have uploaded this as an MS Word .DOC file. Formatting correct except for font sizes. That issue can be fixed, but that's another story.

I'll update the Fanfic FAQs later…

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