WTF RTE

[amberfocus]

Seriously, Rich Text Editor, why will you not work right?  Why are you breaking up paragraphs all weird and adding extra spaces and generally making it impossible to format anything so it looks good!  And LJ why have you not fixed this yet?  It's been a month!

I am going to try to post my first chapter soon.  I will make an attempt at html, but that will take me forever.  I did send it into Teaspoon so who knows if I will get this figured out before it's posted there.  It's a toss up right now of what will take the longest.

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[who-in-whoville.livejournal.com]

You don't post to FF, do you? I've found that taking the HTML from FF, then copying THAT into the HTML editor seems to prevent the formatting problems... just sticking with the HTML. Ugh, it's tedious, but it works.

Anyone out there know of a website where you can post your formatted text and it translates saves it with HTML tags? Is there a way to do that in Word or Pages??? It would make posting to LJ so much easier.

I so so SOOOO share your frustration. I haven't been able to update my Ficlist in a month, and I've stopped copying my stories over from Teaspoon. It isn't worth the hassle. Only posting new stuff here.

[ramblinsuze.livejournal.com]

I don't know how much formatting you actually use in your fics, but the HTML editor will automatically insert paragraph breaks, etc., so you don't have to code all of that. You'd just need to insert tags for bold text, italics, etc.

As long as your paragraphs are set up like this (with the space between them, vs. indenting), it's really easy to do.

[3pirouette.livejournal.com]

I've had some luck by copying and pasting from my word program (usually open office) to a note pad or word pad first, then re-copying and pasting into LJ. That way I only lose italics and bolds, not formatting. Something about the copy and paste in RTE doesn't like my word programs that much. Not sure if that helps you at all, though... good luck!

[angelfireeast.livejournal.com]

It's been driving me nuts too! Seriously why can't they fix this kind of stuff by now? It's been going on for a long time. A lot of people pay for to use this site. Can't they keep it running a bit better?