Why, hello there. I am so happy to meet you!

Fanatic said 6 months ago 10/2/2009 10:15:33 PM EDT

Here are some tips on how to do text entries in the new Worth:

1) Entering: Paste your entry, just like before. The box labeled "Author's comments" is for author's comments, like before. Do not repeat your entry in the "caption" box. "Descriptive tags" are for keyword searching. (There is no longer a pop up box, so it should be easy now).

2) All of the old formatting tags (e.g., italic, bold) should work fine.

3) The word filter is different. Remember that profanity is not acceptable, even disguised profanity, unless the contest is age-restricted. No F bombs or even F b###s!

4) All special characters are supported, but they have to be entered in unicode. In general, this means do not paste in characters you can not type on your keyboard. Let's repeat that: If you can't type the character on your keyboard, you shouldn't just paste it into a text entry box, because you may end up with this: ���. Instead, you can incorporate a sequence of characters beginning with an ampersand and ending with a semicolon, and Worth will display the appropriate character.

If the characters between the ampersand and the semicolon are "#134", for example, you get a footnote dagger: †

You can get hearts: ♥

Musical notes: ♬

...and yes, even the em (long) dash: —

The most commonly used character codes are listed below, along with a link to all of them.


Commonly used special HTML codes:

Type &# and the number below, followed by a semicolon, with no spaces, and that string of six characters will automagically be converted to the associated character.

133 Elipsis …
134 Dagger †
145 Left single-quote ‘
146 Right single-quote ’
147 Left double-quote “
148 Right double-quote ”
150 En dash –
151 Em dash —
161 Inverted exclamation point ¡
191 Inverted question mark ¿

224 a grave à
225 a acute á
226 a circumflex â
227 a tilde ã
228 a umlaut ä
231 c cedilla ç
232 e grave è
233 e acute é
241 n tilde ñ

All of them are listed here.

5) If you edit your entry, make sure you keep those escape codes in there!

Please, please, check over your entries after you've entered, and edit and fix them up to your heart's content.

Fanatic said 4 months ago 11/10/2009 9:06:12 PM EDT

When editing entries, don't forget to hit the "save" button on the text entry page (second tab) and the "save changes" on the first page.

Please continue to watch out for stray curly quotes, ems, and other non-keyboardable characters inserted by, say, MS word during your writing. You can use those characters; you just have to follow the instructions above.