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Ottis413
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Location: West Virginia, USA
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 Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 10:09 pm Post subject: How do you post??? |
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When I copy and paste from either Coral WordPerfict or from M$ WordPad, there is always a bunch of symbols in place of my punctuation marks.  Is there some way around this? I was up till midnight last night fixing my latest; 'After the End.' I was going to post it all but didn't have time, so it's a WIP.
How does every one else do it? What are the up-load options? I can convert to PDF, HTML or XML if that will work, I didn't want to go experimenting and make a mess of things... 
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Sulriel
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| Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 10:43 pm Post subject: Re: How do you post??? |
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| Ottis413 wrote: | When I copy and paste from either Coral WordPerfict or from M$ WordPad, there is always a bunch of symbols in place of my punctuation marks. Is there some way around this? I was up till midnight last night fixing my latest; 'After the End.' I was going to post it all but didn't have time, so it's a WIP.
How does every one else do it? What are the up-load options? I can convert to PDF, HTML or XML if that will work, I didn't want to go experimenting and make a mess of things... |
I don't know if there is an easier way, but it sounds like you have 'smart quotes' turned on in your MSWord. You should be able to turn them off, probably in the 'tools' menu, options, somewhere in there.
barring that, copy and paste the whole thing into notepad and save it as a .txt file then copy and paste that one here. I think you'll need to check your 'word wrap' and be sure you don't insert linebreaks where you don't want them. 
Good luck!
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Robbie
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| Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 7:26 am Post subject: |
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Most characters are "7-bit", in other words, they use characters numbered from 1-127 (actually, 31 - 127 if we're being picky).
Some word processors use the eigth bit to mean special things, but when other software sees the eight bit, it translates it as the extended character, ususlaly some foreign language letter.
Sulriel is correct - best to save as text and go from there. Aferall, the site uses plain text. You can upload HTML and it will strip out all the html characters - but this might not look so good.
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Ottis413
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| Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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Tried it, worked purdy good! 
Still had to replace most of the punctuation marks but it was easier using the 'replace' function in Notepad, then posting... Chapter 4 is up!
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The child is grown, the dream is gone.
Pink Floyd, Comfortably numb
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