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Monday, September 11, 2006

Fic formatting examples to go with the fic formatting thread

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The following is in a , but the thread doesn't interpret things like the fic postings. So, here it is the way it should look:

This thread is in the interest of doing cool formatting things in fics... the kind of cool things that require *gasp* html knowledge, eek! I'll try to keep everything listed in this first post, so you can check back in here for all the goodies.

(As of 3/18/10, some of the formatting isn't working. Likely from changes after evil spammers attacked the site. I'll leave them in, in the hopes that the functionality comes back someday.)

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For the how-to, go to the thread and click "reply with quote"
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If you don't get it, I'm happy to send examples over email. PM me or write to mal4prez@hotmail.com.

Basics

Here's how you do italics , bold , and underline .

Chinese mouseovers:

To show the meaning of Chinese without annoying brackets or whatever, do this:

gé zhi wō

Put your mouse over it to see the meaning - I think there's one kind of browser it doesn't work for, I'm not sure...

Sometimes, there's been problems with longer phrases. I find copy and paste always works better then typing something in, so here's a long one you can copy and replace with your own phrases and meanings:

bù zhī tiān gāo dì hòu

You can combine these with other formats, like italics:

bù zhī tiān gāo dì hòu

Or put them in idented paragraphs, which I'll just leave as homework.

BTW, if you want to put in the inflections - that is, all the weird marks over the characters - I

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