Formatting issue when posting a chapter

[megosdog]

Hi everyone. I've finally been able to start posting my books and stories here (sorry, been out sick with medical issues the last month) and when I tried to post my first chapter, I copied it out of LibreOffice, and into the text box, and now all my text is janky. The tabs are gone, special items like italics are gone, and it is double spacing everything. Is there a way to get a nice, clean past that looks formatted exactly how it is in my writing doc? I'm new to posting stories here, and I'm not sure how to fix this using the UI of the editor that's included on the page. Any help is welcome.

 

[LeslieLevendale]

Strange. I use Ctrl+C then Ctrl+V copying and pasting formatted text from MS Office Word docx and it's never happened to me.
Are using OpenDocument Text as a source?
Or Is it perhaps LibreOffice that's not compatible with SH?

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

did you paste as plain text by accident? Because that sounds like a plain text issue

 

[megosdog]

I'm copying straight out of LibreOffice Writer. Just Ctrl-C -> Ctrl-V. And yeah, I save in ODT. And it doesn't seem to matter what way I paste the text, it ends up being the same result. IE, no tabs, all lines are double spaced, etc. I'm using Firefox on Linux if that matters. Also, I did some experimenting and I can successfully post the doc in some locations with a simply copy/paste with all the needed tabs, italics, etc, so I don't think it's an OpenOffice issue. It feels like the text editor itself is incompatible with the way the text comes over. I don't know. What do you guys think?

Edit:
Interesting. I did some experimenting with Docx, but no change. Then I converted to PDF. No change. Then I tried HTML and...it did the thing in that doc that it's doing in the text box on the chapter page. So it sounds like it might be a Libre Office on Linux thing. Let me fiddle with this as I might be able to MacGyver a solution now that I have an idea what's happening.

Edit 2:
Okay, found a solution. It's a bit hacky, but it seems to work. Anyhow, the solution, if anyone else needs to do this is...
1. Save file as html, then open in a text editor.
2. Replace all "<p style" with "<div style"
3. Replace all the "</p>" tags with "</div>"
4. Append the "background: transparent">" part of the tag with "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;" to look something like this: 'background: transparent" >&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;' <- That will give you a 5 space indent on each line. This needs to be done as a "replace all" so every line is properly grabbed and changed.
5. Save the file, open in your browser, copy->paste into the chapter text box, $profit. :)

Anyhow, again, it's kinda hacky, but it seems to solve the biggest issues I had. :)