Format code

[William King]

All my stories, headers, footers, and main text are formated with code (GA bbcode norm).

Currently the code is not being read and appears as text.

Consequently centering text

, paragraph breaks, bold, italics, highlighted, color, do not work.

 

My question: will this be addressed or must all books published using code formating be republished?

 

[Myr]

I'll look into having the existing stories and chapters run through the rebuild process that the rest of the site went through.  Don't do anything yet.

[Headstall]

Hey, Myr... I'm in the midst of posting a chapter, and there are no paragraph spaces... should I leave it or put them all in... they seem too wide when I do??

[Myr]

Leave the no space in.  That's how it should appear in the editor.

if you view source, you should see:

<p>
	Leave the no space in.  That's how it should appear in the editor.
</p>
<p>Paragraph 2</p>

 

[Headstall]

Oh, thank you, Myr!!!! I was almost done putting the spaces in, but I put it back to the original... you were right (of course) ... it posted properly!  

[William King]

I've just discovered that the code formating is restored if you edit and re-save each chapter.

[Timothy M.]

What about formatting in comments (the old reviews) and replies? Right now they are unformatted including emoticons. I can make them behave by editing and saving (though things like italics have to be redone from [ i]  italics [ /i] to italics via the I button). But with more than 2,000 reviews written and over 500 replies for my own stories, this will take a long time.

I'm on a laptop in Google Chrome, but the same thing happens in Firefox. Look at Def's comment on Gary's Morningstar chapter 47.

Edited March 23, 2017 by Timothy M.

[William King]

The only way (as far as I know) to get the new software to recognise the code, italics etc. is to edit and save. That process allows the code to be read as code.

 

I have been through every chapter of ever story I wrote and done this, but there were still some codes which didn't work, like highlight background color, and very occasionally something I had to correct manually. Obviously it's not a practical solution for hundreds of comments, but you'll agree it is far more important for stories than comments. I think comments will just have to stay as they are, I guess it's the price you pay for the update. Doesn't look nice, but I can't see a solution unless a technical wiz could automate the edit save process, but that might put the site back into chaos for days or weeks even. ?

 

I should have said italics were recognised with edit save and it's nothing to do with your browser because it's the site text editor at work.

 

Edited March 22, 2017 by William King

[Myr]

This issue should be fixed when the rebuild tool is triggered. 

[Timothy M.]

18 hours ago, Myr said:

This issue should be fixed when the rebuild tool is triggered. 

 

Thanks, I won't do anything about my stories with many comments.