Jun
24th
2017
New Site Format · 6:33am Jun 24th, 2017
Okay, I'm ready to hate the site changes now.
While I'm entering a new chapter, they have a special window to bug me about double-spacing and/or indenting the paragraphs now. I've always done the latter; I use double-spaces to mark minor breaks within a scene rather than spacing an entire chapter.
Except that when I did that this time, the site automatically flattened out the indenting, double-spaced everything, and then ignored my own double spacing.
Is there a setting I've missed, or something? Because this is bull
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I know you hate it, but I actually really like the look of the double spacing. A lot. :P
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IT'S BAD AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD.
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*runs away crying*
You can enable paragraph indenting, double spacing, or both from the floating format menu while reading, and you can also toggle paragraph indentation from the left-side format menu while editing. The former is each person's custom view preference, and the latter is your actual document formatting.
You could use an extra paragraph mark/return for minor spacing and a horizontal rule for major breaks, instead; just a thought.
I like the new Rich Text auto-formatting, personally. I rely heavily on italics and bold in the one story I have, so not having to prep the document with find-and-replace and font codes between Word and FiMFic's editor is a big plus for me.
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I see.
But that means that my own formatting is irrelevant. The document is already either auto-spaced or auto-indented according the reader's preference, ignoring everything I used deliberately. Is there any way to show the chapter as I actually WROTE it, rather than as the site thinks it should look?
Also, it's not the major breaks that are a problem, but the minor ones. There are times I want to set a new set of paragraphs apart without suggesting an actual scene change.
What do you mean by "extra paragraph mark"? Would using three spaces rather than two space them properly?
A paragraph mark is the Enter/Return key. Anytime you press Enter, you create a paragraph mark. What do you use to type your stuff? Microsoft Word? GDocs? FiMFic's editor? If you use MS Word, you can use the Find and Replace function to change any paragraph mark with two by selecting the Find text as "^p" and the Replace text as "^p^p" (^p is the denotation for a return/paragraph). You can display paragraph marks in Word by clicking the ΒΆ icon at the top-right corner of the Paragraph settings toolbar.
Before the big update to the formatting options on FiMFic, I used that Find and Replace function to double space my paragraphs, and since the site didn't yet properly import RTF or things like Word's first-line indentation, I used the editor's indent function, which just added a tab to each paragraph. If you want to set your paragraphs apart without indicating a scene change, the easiest way to do it would just be an extra return between those specific paragraphs, which should import/paste properly.
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I use OpenOffice. So all the files are .odt, but then I just Select All and copy/paste it into FimFiction's on-site window.
I have certain parts double-spaced, but when it auto-spaces, it treats both single and double paragraph marks exactly the same, defaulting them to a double space. If I turn on auto-indent, it does the exact same thing in reverse, treating everything as single-spaced regardless of what I typed. I can't win
Before the update the only formatting change I made was by using the "indent all" function. Most of the chapters were single-spaced and everything showed up just like I want it. Now everything is automatically double-spaced instead and I'm all mad.
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Is the double paragraph mark a separate character or is it just two paragraph marks together? Or is OpenOffice set to add an additional space after a paragraph? See if there is a setting related to that.
If it's a separate character, then you can probably get around this by disabling that setting and using two individual returns manually, which should reflect perfectly in FiMFic.
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I'm not sure. I'm not used to thinking about new paragraphs as "characters."
What if I added a paragraph marker in the FimFiction browser directly? Let me try that.
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Well, that kind of worked.
I have the view mode in indented. If I add an extra paragraph marker then it accepts the extra spacing, but for some reason it REMOVES the indentation! Both the indent I added and the indent that the view mode is supposed to add on its own! So now I have the spacing I want, but the first line after every double space looks bizarre.
This sucks.
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It also removes the first line indent of the first paragraph after a horizontal rule or page break. I feel your pain.