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I was just wondering how those of you who archive in more than one site manage the different formatting each needs?
When I first got involved in fandom I started posting my fics to FA, and soon realised that if I didn't want the formatting to mess up I needed to upload in html. So I:
1) write in Word 6 (on my old laptop);
2) use Word 2000 (on my less-old, net-connected desktop) to do post-beta editing and to convert to html;
3) use Dreamweaver to strip out all the MS-crap. (I have to do this tag-by-tag because my computer doesn't seem to handle the automatic clean-up, but at least it's faster than manual coding. I think.)
This leaves me with a clean html file with a blank line between each paragraph, which an html reader will ignore but makes it easier for me to edit. This has always been fine for FA (though perhaps their process of adding headers and footers corrects any errors I make), but never renders correctly on other sites. I've posted fics to Skyehawke, Toujours Pur and LJ, but the amount of reformatting necessary is irksome enough to put me off doing so for all my fics.
So if you post fics to LJ, how do you do it? (I've just noticed the text formatting button: I guess if I select 'none' and post in html the paragraph tags and extra whitespace will disappear from the rendered text of their own accord?) And what's the best format to start off in to ensure minimum tweaking is required for each individual archive?
When I first got involved in fandom I started posting my fics to FA, and soon realised that if I didn't want the formatting to mess up I needed to upload in html. So I:
1) write in Word 6 (on my old laptop);
2) use Word 2000 (on my less-old, net-connected desktop) to do post-beta editing and to convert to html;
3) use Dreamweaver to strip out all the MS-crap. (I have to do this tag-by-tag because my computer doesn't seem to handle the automatic clean-up, but at least it's faster than manual coding. I think.)
This leaves me with a clean html file with a blank line between each paragraph, which an html reader will ignore but makes it easier for me to edit. This has always been fine for FA (though perhaps their process of adding headers and footers corrects any errors I make), but never renders correctly on other sites. I've posted fics to Skyehawke, Toujours Pur and LJ, but the amount of reformatting necessary is irksome enough to put me off doing so for all my fics.
So if you post fics to LJ, how do you do it? (I've just noticed the text formatting button: I guess if I select 'none' and post in html the paragraph tags and extra whitespace will disappear from the rendered text of their own accord?) And what's the best format to start off in to ensure minimum tweaking is required for each individual archive?
