Ugh. I do my stories in TextEdit for the Mac. I don't put in the HTML for line breaks but I do use html tags for italics. And the WIP-o-Doom has tables. Which I recently realized that, when they aren't in my nice lj format, may squish the numbers together because they fill the cells right to the edge. This displeases me.
I'm not sold yet on the new cut tags. On the one hand it's nice to click a cut and be taken to the page. On the other it streamlines flist reading.
I have some private posts that are the most recent version of the WIP-o-Doom--so that, in light of above HTML tables I can still easily get word counts for the whole thing. Except it doesn't all fit on one post. It takes up 4 posts. I had them back-dated chronologically, but with the new cuts, actually it's easier to do them reverse chronologically. Then I can just type the tag for my one-shot post of them and expand them and voila, easy cut&paste, in order on the page.
I don't know if I can use TextEdit--I'm on a PC? I used to just put in the italics tags after the fact. But because I didn't like LJ preserving all Word's default font and line spacing options, I had to paste it all somewhere else to clear the formatting, put in the tags, and then paste it again, possibly having to put the spaces back manually (usually just by hitting return, not with the p tag). But I always mess up my paragraphs when I do that, and I messed them up even worse this time when I tried p tagging everything instead. *bangs head on wall*
What exactly is a table? I think part of my problem is that most of my knowledge of HTML comes from the day last year when I was bored at my internship and worked through like 6 chapters of HTML tutorials online. But I definitely quit before the tables chapter.
Oh, I have Notepad. I don't like it very much, though--the window size in particular annoys me. I'd rather write a story in Word or an HTML post on a practice board, even though I know that's sort of dangerous because the internet could do something funny and eat my post before I finished editing it. I wish I could find a more basic text editor that would let me preserve line spacing and italics and not things like font or anything like that, but I haven't really looked for one.
Wait, how did you end up needing an ANOVA in your story in the first place? :P Was that from one of the declassified transcripts or something? But yeah, that would be tricky for archiving. I mean, usually it's nicer to convert HTML on the Teaspoon because their HTML doesn't try to do all the fancy things LJ does, but yeah, if it won't support tables....you could always put a link in the author's note at the beginning, I guess? That's kind of annoying, though, that there isn't an easier way to do it than with an image.
Well I can't help you out on the search for the text editor; if I'm not using TextEdit, chances are I'm using Emacs or (gasp) vi. And they don't preserve anything!
Yeah, it's one of the lab notes pages. The meme request started out as "The Doctor gets interrogated at Area 51," and then it morphed to "When they discover he's alien, they experiment on him." And me being a stats person and plugged in to the sciences, I figured, if experiments are going to be performed, they should properly analyze and report their results. Experiments (real experiments) are dreadfully picky and boring.
I'm not sold yet on the new cut tags. On the one hand it's nice to click a cut and be taken to the page. On the other it streamlines flist reading.
I have some private posts that are the most recent version of the WIP-o-Doom--so that, in light of above HTML tables I can still easily get word counts for the whole thing. Except it doesn't all fit on one post. It takes up 4 posts. I had them back-dated chronologically, but with the new cuts, actually it's easier to do them reverse chronologically. Then I can just type the tag for my one-shot post of them and expand them and voila, easy cut&paste, in order on the page.
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What exactly is a table? I think part of my problem is that most of my knowledge of HTML comes from the day last year when I was bored at my internship and worked through like 6 chapters of HTML tutorials online. But I definitely quit before the tables chapter.
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Tables are just putting things in basic tabular format. So eg in my story file, part 3 starts out looking like this:
Response perception: location
Blocking variables: electromagnetic fields
Confounding mapped vectors: aural, visual, tactile
Total Observations: 150
Exploratory Analysis:
Response perception: location
Blocking variables: electromagnetic fields
Confounding mapped vectors: aural, visual, tactile
Total Observations: 150
Exploratory Analysis:
Variable Estimate StdErr T Pr(>|t|)
Intercept 12.4504.050 3.074 0.003
distance (m) 0.132 0.233 0.567 0.572
flux (T) -4.431 3.764 -1.178 0.241
charge (C) 6.350 3.890 1.632 0.105
ANOVA:
Source DF SS MSFPr(>|f|)
Regression 3 1038.4 346.1 0.954 0.595
Residual Error 146 79982.2 547.8
Total 149 81020.6
And lj comments tell me that my original post is too long so I will continue this reply in the next comment:
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Response perception: location
Blocking variables: electromagnetic fields
Confounding mapped vectors: aural, visual, tactile
Total Observations: 150
Exploratory Analysis:
Variable Estimate StdErr T Pr(>|t|)
Intercept 12.4504.050 3.074 0.003
distance (m) 0.132 0.233 0.567 0.572
flux (T) -4.431 3.764 -1.178 0.241
charge (C) 6.350 3.890 1.632 0.105
ANOVA:
Source DF SS MSFPr(>|f|)
Regression 3 1038.4 346.1 0.954 0.595
Residual Error 146 79982.2 547.8
Total 149 81020.6 (Also it reminds me to change the Pr(>|f|) to Pr(>f) since F-statistics are always non-negative ( ... )
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Wait, how did you end up needing an ANOVA in your story in the first place? :P Was that from one of the declassified transcripts or something? But yeah, that would be tricky for archiving. I mean, usually it's nicer to convert HTML on the Teaspoon because their HTML doesn't try to do all the fancy things LJ does, but yeah, if it won't support tables....you could always put a link in the author's note at the beginning, I guess? That's kind of annoying, though, that there isn't an easier way to do it than with an image.
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Yeah, it's one of the lab notes pages. The meme request started out as "The Doctor gets interrogated at Area 51," and then it morphed to "When they discover he's alien, they experiment on him." And me being a stats person and plugged in to the sciences, I figured, if experiments are going to be performed, they should properly analyze and report their results. Experiments (real experiments) are dreadfully picky and boring.
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