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#1 2026-04-30 18:50:53
- Lacyann
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text sizeing is not workimg for Kahmnd
text sizeing is not workimg for Kahmnd stories
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#2 2026-04-30 19:07:56
- Eric Storm
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Re: text sizeing is not workimg for Kahmnd
The problem has been verified, and the cause identified. The problem is within the story files themselves. However, Kahmnd is not an active author - he's not even reachable by the email address I have for him. As such, I will have to make the modifications to these files myself. (Unless someone else wants to do some simple but tedious work for free...)
I'll add it to the list of things to do. No guarantees on when they'll be corrected, as it may require some trial and error to fix the problem without either screwing up other things, or fixing each paragraph by hand.
Eric Storm
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#3 2026-05-02 04:24:14
- Skyscraper
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Re: text sizeing is not workimg for Kahmnd
Oh yay, it's not my fault this time
You're either born with common sense or you're not. I was not.
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#4 2026-06-08 02:21:21
- TransSister
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Re: text sizeing is not workimg for Kahmnd
If you're still wanting/needing someone to do this work, Eric, I'm happy to give some of my time.
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#5 2026-06-09 13:17:48
- Eric Storm
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Re: text sizeing is not workimg for Kahmnd
TransSister wrote:
If you're still wanting/needing someone to do this work, Eric, I'm happy to give some of my time.
Are you familiar with HTML code?
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#6 2026-06-10 13:57:15
- TransSister
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Re: text sizeing is not workimg for Kahmnd
Eric Storm wrote:
TransSister wrote:
If you're still wanting/needing someone to do this work, Eric, I'm happy to give some of my time.
Are you familiar with HTML code?
Eric Storm
Yes, very.
12 short stories won't take long to fix, even if the text sizing tags or attributes are scattered throughout each of them and badly broken everywhere.
Whether it's been set at the top of the HTML document or on each and every paragraph within the files, most of it can probably be fixed with a relatively simple find/replace and is well within the capabilities of most text editors (like Notepad++).
Probably the easiest way to get the files to me would be to email them to the address associated with my account here.
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#7 2026-06-10 20:20:59
- Eric Storm
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Re: text sizeing is not workimg for Kahmnd
Okay. It may take me a few days to send them to you. I don't have a way to grab them all at once, I will have to download them one at a time from the site and zip them up for you. As I'm not feeling very well at the moment, this could take a bit.
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#8 2026-06-11 06:28:53
- TransSister
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Re: text sizeing is not workimg for Kahmnd
Eric Storm wrote:
Okay. It may take me a few days to send them to you. I don't have a way to grab them all at once, I will have to download them one at a time from the site and zip them up for you. As I'm not feeling very well at the moment, this could take a bit.
Eric Storm
Take care of yourself first & foremost - the less that's looked after the less you're able to do to manage & run this website.
I'd thought you might be able to pull them from the backend database directly more easily than having to manually download each item, and that there might be interpretative layer placed between the source files in the database and what is downloaded via the 'Download item' link.
If the latter is not the case (i.e. what we can download is (almost) exactly the same as what was uploaded by the author), then there's little or need to pull the files directly from the database.
Either way, I'll manually download them myself.
Where/how shall I go about getting the updated/fixed versions back to you? I'm thinking I could use the forum's 'send an email' feature to provide you with a link to a shared folder after I've made the fixes.
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#9 2026-06-11 07:40:48
- TransSister
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Re: text sizeing is not workimg for Kahmnd
The following is what I can see from the one I've downloaded, and likely applies to all of Kahmnd's content but I'd need to double-check each one.
I can see that it appears to have been created using Microsoft Word 10, and OH MY GAWD it's spammed with an excessive amount of style-setting tags!
Each block of text and blank line is wrapped inside both a <span>, and then a <p> wraps the <span>.
It's the <span> tags which contain the explicit font-size stylesheet attribute which becomes the effective font size the text is displayed at, ignoring/overriding anything set by our browser(s) and user profile settings.
Additionally, each of the <p> tags defines a text-indent which is what's causing the first line of text in each paragraph to be indented in ~0.5in from the left.
There's also an attribute on the <p> which defines a class and that, in turn, specifies the use of 10.0pt Times New Roman for the font, however that class is defined in the header section of the source file but which is NOT presented when viewing the story online.
The minimal fix is to remove all explicit font-size settings by removing the text from inside the <span> tags.
It's probably sensible to clean-up/clear-out the rest of the MSOffice Word->HTML conversion bloatage while there, too, to leave as little HTML coding as necessary.
Eric, I'll remove all of the above noted items in the file I've downloaded, save it and forward that to you so you can verify that it works before I go editing the rest of them.
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#10 2026-06-11 19:10:22
- Eric Storm
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Re: text sizeing is not workimg for Kahmnd
Yes, you can email me either the file itself or a link to the file. Either one works.
The header of the HTML file is removed when displaying it. This is because authors' stylesheets were interfering with the site's stylesheets. So anything that appears in the head can be ignored.
And, just to respond to your first email: I could theoretically pull the stories from the database... but as far as I know, the db has no way to turn each row of its result into a file, so I'd have to actually do a copy/paste on each file.
Eric Storm
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