Date with a Drifter - Retail Ebook
Added 2018-12-03 06:45:26 +0000 UTCHere's the finished Ebook for 'Date with a Drifter' in EPUB and MOBI formats. I made some considerable edits to this one and spiced up the first sex scene, so it should read significantly better. Mega props to Smutomancer for helping me with my formatting issues and saving me from self-induced baldness.
This cover was drawn by PimpArtist, who you can find here: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/pimpartist/
I didn't actually find the cause of the aforementioned formatting issue so if anyone has any insights, I'd be very interested.
Comments
Helluva work around for a crazy issue but I'm glad it's finally working for you!
CthulhusDream
2018-12-04 19:43:18 +0000 UTCI decided to do some experimenting and see what I could do with it. After a lot of fucking around I discovered that if I pasted the text into Notepad++ and enabled the special characters function, it would show me the code for things like page breaks and tabs. I messed around disabling things and seeing what the result was when I pasted it back into OpenOffice, and then I discovered that using the '\t' mass replace command to remove all of the tabs resulted in the text justifying correctly once pasted into OpenOffice. I believe what's happening is that somehow, Google Docs is changing those tabs from formatting to characters, which means that the usual function that I would use to remove them can't detect them, resulting in the text spazzing out. Normally I would use that same command (\t) to strip all of the tabs in OpenOffice, but perhaps because Notepad++ is more of a poweruser thing, it's able to detect and strip those tabs-turned-characters where no other program was able to. I still don't know why Google Docs spontaneously started doing that or how to stop it, but I have a workaround now at least.
Snekguy
2018-12-04 08:03:13 +0000 UTCYeah it looks normal now, but paste that into Word/OpenOffice/LibreOffice and try to justify the text. You'll see it spazz out.
Snekguy
2018-12-04 06:02:45 +0000 UTCIt looks perfectly fine on my end? <a href="https://imgur.com/a/bLKoG27" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://imgur.com/a/bLKoG27</a>
CthulhusDream
2018-12-04 05:43:44 +0000 UTCSure. I can't post the Google Doc since it's tied to my IRL Gmail, but I'll be posting what I've been working on today pretty soon on Pastebin. If you download the text file from Pastebin, or even just copy and paste the text from the website, that screwy formatting will be there. If you really want to see something weird, open the text file with Notepad and turn the word wrap function on and off. You can see the formatting imploding in real-time.
Snekguy
2018-12-04 03:23:57 +0000 UTCWould it be possible to post a link to a google doc "sample paragraph" just to mess with for those who like troubleshooting this kind of thing?
CthulhusDream
2018-12-04 03:17:26 +0000 UTCYeah I've tried everything that I can think of. It seems that the text just gets tainted as soon as it comes into contact with Docs and then nothing can remove it. Text that works perfectly in OpenOffice or LibreOffice, once pasted into Google Docs suddenly fucks up, even if I haven't made any edits to it yet. The most confusing thing to me is how I'm unable to remove this weird formatting no matter what I do. I thought that it was impossible for any kind of formatting to survive Pastebin or Notepad++ for example, but it does. I've been doing some reading and I think it might have something to do with something called 'carriage returns', but why that's suddenly a problem now when I was editing these files without issue using the same methods only a day ago I can't say.
Snekguy
2018-12-04 03:09:41 +0000 UTCOh hmmm, are you copy/pasting from Word or something else into Google docs? I know you've probably done this already but have you tried something like selecting the offending text in the doc aligning it to like left/center (anything different) than back into justified to see if the formatting thing is just wonky from format to format? Or copying doc from whatever into like regular notepad to remove all formatting then copying all that into the Google Docs and resetting the whole justification manually?
CthulhusDream
2018-12-04 02:45:00 +0000 UTCYeah I saw your comment, thanks. Unfortunately that doesn't fix it. It seems to be happening again with the story that I'm editing right now and I just can't figure out why. I haven't done anything differently, but Google Docs seems to be permanently fucking up whatever I paste into it. The problem is that if I don't use Google Docs to edit then I can't make use of Grammarly.
Snekguy
2018-12-04 01:43:51 +0000 UTCI commented on the last post but just in case you missed it, if you hit the Tab key after the period on the sentences that are bugging out it fixes the weird justification. It happens mostly when you use line breaks instead of paragraph breaks, usually hitting Shift+Enter for a line break vs hitting just Enter for a paragraph break, at the ends of those sentences.
CthulhusDream
2018-12-04 00:01:44 +0000 UTC
