Hi, Linda. I am probably one of those new guys that need to get off the dime and start doing more reviews. Now that the holidays are over and my family's mini-maelstrom has pretty much resolved itself, I'll get busy and do some reading/commenting.
Tom
Is this a bug? When I make up my edit box for response to a review, I use a single 'Enter" press. The text appears as it should, single-spaced. When I go look at that I've posted in response, the paragraphs are double-spaced.
It is the same way when I paste from Word into a chapter edit box. I paste single-spaced, but get double-spaced and have to edit out all the extra line feeds.
That's kind of wasteful of page real estate, isn't it?
Tom
No, how long did you wait for the content to appear on the homepage? It can sometimes take 10-15 minutes. By clicking the update publishing selections you are resetting the normal wait period and overriding the process but you don't need to do it. It will eventually appear.
I got busy elsewhere so it had to be around half an hour and it still wasn't posted. Next time I post, I'll leave things as they are and see if/when it makes it to the top.
Thanks, Sol.
Tom
I had to again "update publishing selections" before my newest chapter was displayed on the home page (and anywhere else for that matter). Is this something new that we have to do now for every chapter?
Tom
Sol, I have a small item for the wishlist and I am very aware of how difficult this could be to implement.
A bit of background: My vision is not what it should be. Let's face it - I'm getting older. Fonts and color combinations that wouldn't have bothered me a few years ago are beginning to really "bug" me. Sites that have jumped on the "black is GREAT"" bandwagon leave me completely cold - especially if they use grey or some other low-contrast color for fonts. This site, while nice and white uses a light blue font that is very tiring to my eyes. Making a highlight in order to change/delete in this box, for instance, is kind of a light-yellow color and barely distinguishable to my eyes. Not at all like the blue highlight in an in-line review. For my own use in my web browser I've devised a script (for Pale Moon) I call "colorchange". What it does is remove the colors to fonts and the like, including background colors. It works here, but only to a limited extent.
What would be great is if we could have a change to our "settings" page that added check boxes or something that indicated whether or not we wanted light blue fonts or just plain black. The font size icons are nice, but color can't be changed.
EDIT: After holding a magnifying glass to the screen, I've determined that the font on this page seems to be black, but the very faint blue background makes the font appear with a blue tinge. Killing the background color makes the font stand out much better - and it is black now. Apparently, it is an optical illusion on my part. Some control over local font (color and/or size) might be handy though.
Tom
Hi, Sol.
In my case, what Japanese I post is only incidental to the story and inserting a photo depiction is no problem. I am nowhere good enough to post an entire story in Japanese. 
That is a very interesting web site you have, Avraham. I wasn't prepared (at 0030) for audio to come rumbling through my sound system from your video. 
I see you use the VLC video driver instead of flash, which my FlashBlock stops cold. I'll have to remember that next time.
Tom
I don't know much about publishing here in Hebrew, but my novels that are set in Japan use vertical, right to left structure. When I published the chapters with Japanese characters in it, they turned up as vertical strings of "?" characters. I ended up taking a screen shot of what I wanted, adjusted the "picture" (re-sized as necessary), and hosted it on my web site. Then, inside the chapter I just made IMG & /IMG reference to the photo on my site. Worked perfectly and displays in-line with the English text. It's an extra bit of bother, but it does work.
For a chapter in Hebrew, perhaps a screenshot of the whole page could be referenced and presented as an image.
Tom
Me too, Janet. Good question.
Tom
Great! I am now going to get moving and begin reading the story as I promised a while back. Between the holidays and my little tempest-in-a-teapot family crisis I just haven't found the time.
Tom
Strange thing happened just now. I updated my novel with a new chapter, but it isn't being shown as "new writing from your connections". The only thing that shows my my old chapter 9, not my new chapter 10.
EDIT: Interesting... When I went to my novel and clicked "Update publishing selections", my new chapter is now being displayed. Do we have to do that every time we publish a new chapter? I don't remember doing it before.
Tom
I don't know if the is a bug, or an unimplemented future enhancement. If I go to any of my stories, there are three links at the top-right. The top two are "Regular Reviews" and "In-line reviews". They represent themselves as a link, but when I click on them, I'm immediately returned to the very same page. Shouldn't the links take me to any regular or in-line reviews that may exist for this story?
The tail end of the URL for the link contains ".../0#regular_reviews" but the "0#" will force a stay on the same page. Is that by design?
EDIT: (much later). I have found that this link failure happens only when I am on MY stories and not another author. I am whisked to their regular and in-line reviews right away, but even if I show I have more than "0" reviews, I can't make the link work. Could it have to do with it being 'myself' doing the clicking?
Tom
I'll toss my money into Picard's ring. He seemed the most cool one in any situation. He even got assimilated and fought back.
Tom
Allen, the next time you log in "cold", try refreshing the page before you do anything else. It may very well be that your details will auto-fill this time. Of course, that all depends on what browser you have and the settings.
Tom
Yea, and verily.
Tom
Thanks for the info, Dagnee. In this case it might be better to say that the thread has been deleted instead of "denying permission". Of course, if the thread is gone, then permission to view it would be denied, but not quite so harshly.
Tom
I have now received a second notification email and when I clicked on the link, I was told "You do not have permission to access this page."
Why an I getting notifications for threads I don't have access to?
The thread is titled "Publishing Problem".
EDIT: Clicking the "unsubscribe" link, I get this:
"Unable to confirm security token. A likely cause for this is that some time passed between when you first entered the page and when you submitted a form or clicked a link. If that is the case and you would like to continue with your action, please click the Confirm button. Otherwise, you should click the Cancel button to return to where you were."
MORE EDIT: Clicking the "Confirm" button whisks me to the Next Big Writer Premium Forum, Page 1
Tom
Gotta go along with Linda. There are loads of places where, once you comment or whatever, you get whisked away to somewhere you don't want to be instead of going right back from whence you came. Very anoying.
Tom
I have lots of entries for that one, Janet:
1. Since you went away
2. Breakfast at Tiffany's
3. Shining Through
4. Reunion at Fairbairn
5. Hannover Street
6. 6 Days 7 Nights
7. The Best Years of Our Lives
8. Leap Year
9. Love, Actually
Etc. Etc.
Tom
SPAM, Wilma. Do NOT click on the username(s) to see the profile. That will NOT work and could lead you to a bogus "Login" screen.
Tom
Janet, that romance could be an older couple who both have gardens in their backyards and they begin talking to each other over the fence.
Or set it in England using two adjacent gardening plots. That's all the rage there now. I have a friend who met his wife that way.
Tom
I miss the emails also. Sometimes the day just slips past me and I realize I haven't checked for new stuff all day. By then, it's too late.
Tom
Since I am a pilot, I had an idea many years ago of writing about a man/woman (who dislike each other but were traveling as pilot/passenger) crashing on a desert island. Then, about a year later, the movie "6 Days 7 Nights" (Harrison Ford/Anne Heche) came out and I gave it up. I have decided to try and resurrect that plotline, but changing the locale to a remote area in Alaska (which is pretty much anywhere) and the motivation (of the woman) to stolen property and the guy to a geologist on the ground that comes upon the wreck - and a survivor. No doubt that's been done somewhere before, but I think it's a viable plot.
Tom
Me. Never. Probably will never send anything to a publishing house.
Tom
Hi, Wilma. Take a look at the top of this page. You can see the link "The Next Big Writer Premium" (followed with a tiny arrow and this thread "Site Bugs"). CLick just the first half of that link. Over on the right-hand side, at the top of the page, is a button called "Post New Topic". That's where you go.
On one of my other writing sites, a couple of posters there do the same thing on a grand scale - launch 10 or 15 new chapters all at once. Burns me up because all that posted before are pushed off the listing page. I would actually support a limit on number of posts per day if it would stop that type of behavior.
Tom
