WannaFriendsBe wrote:
Hi Kajun et al,
Thanks again for all you guys are doing to fix the coding issues.....
*However I just noticed that after the latest downtime fix --- some parts of my fic are missing.
As far as I can tell - it's the 'italicized thoughts' of the characters that are missing.
At the beginning of the earlier chapters - I always used to have something like the following:-
Thoughts are in italics
But now all I see is:-
Thoughts
AND in the body of the fic itself, wherever there should be lines of whatever character's thoughts typed out in italics - it is just blank.
So it seems, for whatever reason, any words in italics to do with thoughts have disappeared!
- And the sad thing for me is - even I don't know exactly what those missing thoughts are... - my original word document of my fic and the back ups seem to have a problem and i may not be able to retrieve them.
So please help! - I hope you have the full contents of my original thread posts and reader feedbacks safe somewhere - such that hopefully my complete work can be displayed.
(it was nice to see that the coding within the feedback I'd received had also been now been mostly fixed - though, as I think someone mentioned earlier, the 'signatures' have some issues - I notice in my fic thread that some font sizes in mostly signatures are distorted - and there are a few paragraphing spacing/distortion issues in the fic/feedbacks - However, I consider these minor details that I can live with, different from the more major problem of missing text which is my primary reason for posting).
Once the major problem is hopefully sorted - I sure as heck will be copying and saving/backing up the html pages of my fic from the kitten board - just in case I'm indeed unable to sort out the issues with my original word documents of the fic.
I look forward to your reply.
Regards
WFB
There are some italics in your fic. I have no way of knowing what, if anything, is missing without an original file. Unfortunately, I can’t find it on the old board. As stated above, drlloyd is working on a few issues and if that doesn’t clear it up, the only thing I can tell you is to send me a word file of your story with all the proper formatting and I will edit your story. I didn't read it while converting so I didn't notice if it was already like that. Many fics got cut off during the transfer from Novogate to this forum back in 2005. The ones we became aware of were fixed a long while back.
Regarding the font sizes in signatures from the old posts before April 2005: It may not be possible to change any of that. Right now, there is a bigger issue regarding active signatures messing up old and new posts. We may just have to live with a few odd spacing issues and such in the old posts. The important thing is that the html is gone so everyone can easily read every post on the board now.
In the meantime, you should see what you can do about finding your original file. Perhaps there is a kitten around that has it stored on their computer? If so, they can send it to you and, if the script doesn't fix the problem, pass the new file along to me.