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Advanced editor font

14 years ago

When I'm using the word document to write my story, I use the size 12 Bodoni M12 Condensed font because it helps me picture a dark story. Normally when I copy and paste from the word document to the advanced editor, it gives the the option to "clean" the text, and when I do that I make sure the box that ignores font is checked. I do that because it provides a font that is easy to read while still matching the font from the rest of the story. However, around one page ago I typed something straight into the advanced editor rather than into Word, then I pasted it into Word because that's also how I log my progress (I keep the date beside title of the page). After that I noticed I made a few errors, so I corrected them then copy and pasted over to the page I just wrote.

This time, it didn't give me the normal "Do you want to allow access to clipboard" pop-up it always does, but I just figured it was because I had already written the page and it just had to be empty for the box. However, when I typed another page that leads you to a new chapter, I typed it solely on Word, and it still didn't give me the pop-up. So now, I have a funny-looking font that completely goes against the rest of the story, and I know I'm gonna get a few complaints on the comments later if I let it slide.

What should I do about this?

JJJ-thebanisher

Advanced editor font

14 years ago

I don't think you can use size 12 Bodoni M12 Condensed Font on the internet. Someone like Zikara should correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that it's one of the 'internet fonts' and it's likely that very few people would be able to actually see the writing in your storygame if you used it. I suggest going with one of the internet fonts.

Again, someone should correct me if I'm wrong.

Zikara

Advanced editor font

14 years ago

Generally speaking, yes. JJJ is right. You can only use web safe fonts, as not all fonts are supported by all browsers. This is a site with a nice list of websafe fonts, and examples of each font. None of them are all that interesting. You could probably surf on google to see what fonts are available in each specific browser, and see if some cool fonts overlap in just a few of the more popular browsers (eg. Firefox, Chrome, IE.) Now, you might be thinking to yourself that you've seen cool fonts elsewhere, and you'd be right. There's a way to embed fonts using CSS, leading the browser to code elsewhere that lets your browser know how to interpret other fonts(if your browser supports the embed font feature :P). Give me some time and I'll figure out how to do this, and if it will work with CYS(because some things don't).

October

Advanced editor font

14 years ago

The font most likely won't work on the internet, as because not everyone else has the font it will just display as Times New Roman for everyone else (or possibly another font).

Because this is the case, if you wanted the text to be in the default CYS font and you can't get it back to normal after copying it across from word, simply click on the "Source" button and copy and paste the text in there, then it should come up as default text.

If you're not using the RTE, your problem is very confusing and my solution will not work.

ThisisBo

Advanced editor font

14 years ago

So, basically, even though it looks like my font on the page, it will automatically be converted to Times New Roman when I save?

Zikara

Advanced editor font

14 years ago

Not converted, per se.

What happens is, the font is there in the code. When you look at it with your browser, its all like "I have no idea what font that is" so it just shows you your browsers default font.

If you found a browser that supported that font, it would show. Its just not a common browser font (and there may be no browsers that support it)

ThisisBo

Advanced editor font

14 years ago

OOOOOOOOOOooh, that makes sense. In that case, my fonts may still look a little off from beginning to end, but it should only be because of size.

Zikara

Advanced editor font

14 years ago

Well, it depends on how your browser interprets the font, and how the website applies font. If Alexp made it so that a specific font appears for stories, instead of just letting the browser use its default, then when someone is reading your story who has a browser default font different to what Alexp set it to, then it will look different.

What you can do, is go to the page that looks weird (or could end up looking weird) and manually set it back to the font you want, by highlighting all of the text and changing it with the font drop-down menu. I did a quick look and it says it uses Verdana, so I'd go with that, and then remember what page it is, and get a few people to check to see if it looks weird sometime before publishing.

What I'd recommend for the future is that, unless you actually want your story to be in the font you said, then you should quickly find something along the lines of 'Make plain text' in the menubar (usually under format) and -then- copy and paste. This gets rid of all formatting, so you won't have this sort of problem.