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Notes as we near the deadline

Dec 15, 2006 12:18

Please be sure to use the "Preview" feature and look over your story carefully! Make sure you didn't leave any information in the txt file except the story itself, that any special characters implemented correctly, that the formatting is as you want it ( Read more... )

yuletide 2006, technical notes

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dragonsinger December 16 2006, 00:53:36 UTC

So if you have 1,000 words or more, you should be fine with the upload, right?

liviapenn December 16 2006, 02:53:54 UTC

Yes, the archive only cares if it's 999 words or less.

dragonsinger December 16 2006, 13:20:18 UTC

Okay.:) *Mental note* Add more words. ;)

elynross December 16 2006, 18:22:30 UTC

In theory, yes. *g* I was playing with the word count pages posted yesterday, and Word, and there seems to be a variance of up to several dozen words, on the same content, so depending on how the archive measures things, it's possible that if you're right on the line, it might not read it as over the line (some programs count hyphenated words as two, not one, some count various punctuations as words, etc.)

ionescribens December 16 2006, 07:49:51 UTC

Uh uh--I assumed the Notes would be html too. Will it be a problem just to leave it as is, and assume people can skip round the

stuff? I hate to make more work for someone to fix it.

elynross December 16 2006, 18:24:40 UTC

Not a problem, really -- it may make it harder to read, or look untidy. If you want to fix it, though, I can easily delete and let you re-upload. If it's in the Summary, I can actually edit that, too, I think, but I don't think I can specifically edit just the Author's notes.

ionescribens December 16 2006, 18:52:44 UTC

Thank you, please delete it and I will upload again--I just looked at the Notes, and it looks really awful with all that HTML all over. I forgot I'd italicized quotes. Blecch. Thank you!

elynross December 16 2006, 19:30:17 UTC

Done!

Wasn't sure where else to ask this .... oishii_tokoro December 11 2009, 00:32:44 UTC

... as I've skimmed the technical notes and FAQ and didn't see this addressed (though I could have sworn I read about it SOMEWHERE at some point - just can't remember where or what.)

Regading "special characters" in Yuletide story titles or content - like Danish ø (U+00F8) or å (U+00E5)

I'm using Open office to compose the HTML. Is there anything special I can/should do in the HTML header to preserve these characters? If not I'll eliminate them rather than see them transformed into gobbledygook.

Re: Wasn't sure where else to ask this .... elynross December 11 2009, 01:26:55 UTC

Since we're going to be uploading to the AO3 this year, not the old interface (where you had to use the ASCII codes), questions like this are probably better directed to archive support for full answers. However, it was an excellent question, and I wondered, so I checked it out.

While AO3 has had a few issues with the importing of stories from other URLs and special characters, and with special characters in tags, it looks like it's able to deal with special characters just pasted in the text of the story. I don't think you need to do anything special, as stories can be uploaded either using rich text or simple html (available codes can be found on the archive, or in the recent proxy post in this LJ.)

I hope this answers your question.

Re: Wasn't sure where else to ask this .... oishii_tokoro December 11 2009, 02:56:17 UTC

By proxy entery I assume you mean http://community.livejournal.com/yuletide/tag/uploading ?

and .. I am definitely undercaffienated at the moment, but I am not seeing anything about "special characters" per se in that particular entry ... are the title fields HTML? and thus going to be able to parse, for example, vågen? or does it need to be pasted in as (mentally remove spaces) v & a r i n g ; g e n ?

Re: Wasn't sure where else to ask this .... elynross December 11 2009, 16:10:00 UTC

No, that post has the possible html codes, if it turns out to be necessary to code the special characters. But it looks like we're going to be able to just paste special characters into the upload form for AO3 -- and I'm assuming that goes for the title, as well.

Since support for things like uploading and such will be moving to the AO3 support system, and I haven't actually uploaded to it myself, yet, I can't say for sure, but people I trust have said they've been able to just copy and paste accent marks, etc.

I will look into this further, though, and we'll be making this kind of thing clearer when we have actual upload availability and information!

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