Come Fly With Me (part 3.1)

[troublesize]

Summary: A little bonus fic that ties in with my Come Fly With Me fic. It's not completely necessary to read that prior to this - essentially, Sherlock and John are on holidays together - in this instance, on the Holmes family estate in Bordeaux - and there are quite a few sexytiems.
This fic also includes the OC Alec (whose appearance has been

Comments

[troublesize]

*has a fit* Please, tell me if the alt text is working, and I just can't view it properly because it's my own journal! Otherwise, I'll have to reformat!

*nervously awaits feedback*

[caffienekitty]

You need quotation marks around what you have for alt text and it should work. (I'm waiting til the story is finished to read it in one go, but I had to pop in and troubleshoot. ;-D)

[troublesize]

Okay, I've edited the quotation marks in the entry, and it still hasn't worked! *despairs* D:
I don't know what I'm doing wrong!

[caffienekitty]

I just copied and pasted your coding into a test post on my own LJ, and it worked fine, so I don't know why it's not working on yours... Let me look in to it here for a minute.

[troublesize]

Bizarre....
*stares at the coding, willing it to suddenly function*

[caffienekitty]

ARG! I typed a two paragraph solution into the edit reply window and LJ lost it because the reply got responded to in the interim, foolish me.

What's happened is you used either RTF or a word processing program. When using these, they "helpfully" assume that if you use a symbol you want that symbol to show 'as is' and the program replaces the symbol with its corresponding & code.

How to solve this:
-Edit the entry in LJ, click on the HTML tag at the top of the edit window.
-You will see a large wall of text with no breaks because RTF/word processing also changes all the breaks into break code instead.
-Find your bits to be translated. This will be tricky, use the Preview button to see what text is around each one.
-When you find one, replace the & codes with the symbols: & lt; is <, & gt; is >, & quot; is ". [without the spaces, of course] You should only need to do this on those specific sections, ignore any other & codes. Keep checking with Preview to see the effect

[caffienekitty]

Sending you a PM with your code fixed.

ETA: actually a PM would strip the code too. And I can't send it as a textarea box in a comment because of comment limits. Nuts. Do you have an email I could send the text file to?

[troublesize]

OMG. OMG. It's worked. FINALLY. You are a livejournal saint!

Despite your previous comment where you've told me how to format the alt text, I still don't understand how to do it - it seems far more complicated than I thought!

Perhaps I should just never be crazy enough to attempt alt text ever again.
I like this plan (a bit).

THANK YOU SO MUCH for helping me out XD

[caffienekitty]

A lot of the confusion was my fault in the first place. I keep forgetting people do use RTF and Word in making entries and tend to think only in code. Glad it's fixed now. :-)

[troublesize]

No, I'm really really grateful! REALLY! I've given you a special thanks in the summary for this chapter :D

...and here I was, thinking that I possessed any technological wizardry. :P

Working on chapter 5 *right now*! No alt text in that one (thank god, lol)