PLEH!!!

[roxy]

Can anyone explain to me how to post stuff at SSA so that my stories will look less like a baby chimpanzee posted for me? No matter what I do, it always looks wonky and semi-literate and I swear, I can *not* figure out the ital business there. *pout*

And by the way, happy Saturday.
I'm cleaning house, finally putting away Christmas stuff, and dusting--oy, so much dusting.

I did get to watch Avatar and Zuko is breaking my heart, big stupid monkey. *wipes tear* How could he? I knew it would be that way, but how could he? *sniff*
Back to dusting.

*sings* Swing low, sweet chariot, comin' for to carry me home....

Comments

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

AAAAAH! I *see*! That's what was making it hard for me--wow! Not enough asterixes! *kisses all over you*

That's a whole lot of work! Omigosh--Mariposa is a sea of italics--I'll be asterixing forever!

So, by increase the size, do you mean like going from 10 to 12 pnt?

[kirana]

No, it will increases the size of the file by increasing the sheer number of characters. ^^ I'm not sure, but I think each character is a byte? It's been a while since I was last in any computer-type courses. xx And don't forget that apostrophes are punctuation, too. xx

It's really, really painful. ;_;

*is kissed* Yay, kisses! ^^

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, again--I see! And of course I forgot about apostrophes! Thanks!
*sigh*
it is! \*whines*
Hugs!

[danceswithgary]

I compose in Word because I need the spellchecker and thesaurus and always just use the asterisks, never try to use html in my journal because I know it's going to end up on SSA. The most important change for me was turning off smart quotes and accents in Word. I always wondered why I would cut/paste a story from SSA into Notepad to save and it would be really weird as a .txt file until I figured out what was happening.