Comments | tkel_paris: Annoying detail about cutting and pasting in LJ

tkel_paris

Annoying detail about cutting and pasting in LJ

Aug 12, 2013 22:02

I was noticing that my fics were coming out in larger text than I wrote them in when I pasted them in. But not all of them did that. Finally, I decided to test the "change font" feature. I selected all the text and set it to "normal". Suddenly they were more like the original ones I posted from before the more recent switches. So I just spent about ( Read more... )

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alimoseby August 14 2013, 05:18:59 UTC

I have those problems occasionally. If it's just a small amount of text that's a different size, I'll just leave it. The main issue I keep on having is when I paste fics in, once I post the entry all the paragraphs I have indented with Word are indented on the post, but it has ntsb; in front of the indentations, and I have to edit and delete all those. Aggravating o the highest power.

tkel_paris August 15 2013, 05:12:06 UTC

I wonder how much is based on what you use to write your stories in vs which operating system you use vs the web browser messing things up by maybe not being up to date.

alimoseby August 15 2013, 05:43:22 UTC

That is actually a good question. I never had that indentation problem when using Google Chrome on my PC, but when I started using Google Chrome on my MacBook, it happened. I have up to five browsers on both my laptops, Chrome, Safari, IE, Firefox and Opera on my PC, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox on my Mac. Only Chrome and Firefox let me copy and paste on both platforms.