A quick poll

[holdouttrout]

Because I feel like it [Poll #1111571] 

Comments

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

I do like to indicate where I mean to place emphasis. I'm anal like that. :) (I have to go and edit it out of stories sometimes, or there's italics scattered all over the damn place.)

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

I think coding italics made me better at not abusing them. Because it's nice to know where you meant to put inflection...but at the same time, italics can really screw things up if the inflection underneath isn't quite right.

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

I always write in html as I go, so that at a moment's notice I can upload to my sekrit hidden wip file for the convenience of my beta.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I just get tired of coding everything twice.

Also, you have, by far, the scariest icons.

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

Also, you have, by far, the scariest icons.

Who, me?

As for coding everything twice, that's not a problem for me. I write and html in notepad and upload to my site. I never post fic on LJ.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Okay...not that one. But the first one?

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

You mean this? He's the Calamari Wrestler, a dead Japanese pro wrestler reincarnated as a giant squid by some monks so he can try to win back his girlfriend. It's a really good movie.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

...You can't make this stuff up.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Also--I meant that I *got* tired of italicizing, and then html-coding. So coding twice. Now I just do it once. Much better.

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I never did that in the first place. I use notepad, not word.

[stargazercmc.livejournal.com]

I always use coded HTML in comments and posts - it's just quicker and more precise than the little bugs LJ throws in there.

Most of the time I use the italics option in word until I'm ready to copy/paste into LJ, and then I hand code anything that needs it.

And, well, you know my stance on ponies.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

I used to use italics until is started being more of a pain to code things twice.

And lj's cheats are...well, they *ought* to be the same as hand-coding, but aren't.

[beanpot.livejournal.com]

I only mentioned ponies because you said you were poking annerb. Frankly, those buggers are starting to scare the crap out of me.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Bwa ha ha!

Well, I'll try to draw them away from you. Then I'll steal Jack's bike and ride like mad!

[http://users.livejournal.com/traycer_/]

Oh well, heck! I should have read the comments before taking your poll. I thought you were talking about writing out the tags, as in journal tags? lol

So my answer to the poll is wrong. Sorry about that. I do write out the html tags in my entries and when I leave a comment. I can't go back to html after creating an entry in Rich Text, which is a major pain in the neck and why I go the html route every time. Html is much easier.

And yes, I also write out the html tags for my stories. I rarely italicize or bold anything, except for the header and maybe chapter titles, so it's really a piece of cake.

Hey, on the bright side, I did get the last one right. :D I still think our team is hot!!

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

No worries. I used the Rich Text editor until I'd gotten my feet with html tags--at least, the ones I use. :-)

And, our team is very hot!

[qtheallpowerful.livejournal.com]

I use html. Always. In fact I got into 'trouble' for this once. I was writing a paper for school, and though I was using Word, I did all my formating in html. My teacher took one look at the paper, looked at me, and said, 'Q, you're writing a paper, not a website.' I was really confused until she handed it back.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Ha ha! Thankfully, I didn't know any html until after college, except for what I had to look up when I needed to use it. ;-)

[qtheallpowerful.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry.

[niamaea.livejournal.com]

I still double code on stories, sort of -- write it out using Word's italics or bolding or whatever, because I like to get a feel for how it's actually going to look, with the downside being that I have to go back once the story's read to be posted and actually tag all the formating again.

(I used to make it really difficult on myself by being very silly about the whole process, and pulling the whole file over to the LJ entry box, and then going through and adding the html either from memory or by checking sections against the word file. Because...I was an idiot, I don't know. It's embarrassing how long it took before it occurred to me to do the coding in Word and then transfer everything. *facepalm*)

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

That's what I used to do, too. And then I figured--"Well, I'm going to have to code it anyway..." and started using tags as I type. Much simpler, but it does throw a couple of my betas off...

[rigel-7.livejournal.com]

The rich text editor is EVOL! *glares at it* so I just code as I go when posting or commenting.

Writing fic is a bit of a hit and miss thing. Sometimes I do it as I go - but it's more likely to be for a oneshot thing that won't go to beta - cos I feel sorry for the person who might have to look over something that has oodles of code all over it.

I also tend to search and replace all the "curly" quotation marks and em-dashes that Word creates and replace them with the HTML so it won't screw up in posting and can be read on a mobile or PDA

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

I didn't use to replace curly quotes, but now I don't actually *have* any because my editor is nice to me...I never thought about it, honestly. And now I feel bad.

:-)