A War for the Stars

narf poit chez BOOM · #1 August 7th, 2003, 08:24 AM

yes, baited breath always evoked weird images for me.

now, do you know where the term genius came from?

Raging Deadstar · #2 August 7th, 2003, 11:49 AM

Great to hear the Empire is getting those metal stock piles filled up. Soon you'll be a fully pledged terror of the universe. Or you could play it differently. Either way i await your next installments

Narf, i have a worrying feeling that it has something to do with genitals

[ August 07, 2003, 10:50: Message edited by: Raging Deadstar ]

Erax · #3 August 8th, 2003, 01:44 AM

Hello Fyron. Yes, I would like that very much, but I don't have it in all-text format (you could say the forum is my writer's notebook). I could edit the printer-friendly Version of this thread to create an HTML Version, but that would take up the time I could be using to write.

BadAxe · #4 August 7th, 2003, 02:02 PM

narf, that is f&cking brilliant! I had no idea.

So when we say someone is a f&cking genius, we are being literal.

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 August 7th, 2003, 08:38 PM

ah...no.

Fyron · #6 August 7th, 2003, 09:52 PM

Erax, I found a program that converts text files to HTML in a snap.

So, I can convert it all to HTML in mere seconds.

http://www.cyber-matrix.com/txt2html.html

The only thing that will take some time is getting rid of all the "other" Posts.

Actually... what am I talking about? Just do "save as" with the printer friendly Version and it is already HTML!

The only question is, how often do you want page breaks when I post it on SE.net?

[ August 07, 2003, 20:56: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Erax · #7 August 7th, 2003, 10:33 PM

Hi Fyron. Yes, I meant doing a 'save as', like you said. No conVersion required, but I'd still have to edit out the readers' comments.

Regarding page breaks, how about 10 Posts per page ? Sounds about right to me. No wait, here's another idea, introduce a page break every time you hit a 'next : Something' post, then make additional pages to balance out the rest. Should add a little bit of suspense to the story.

What about my 'comment' Posts - maps, ranks, etc. ? Do we leave that in the story sequence or create a separate page for them ? Hmm... a separate page sounds like a good idea, we could call it 'The War for the Stars Universe', then link to it in the story sequence at the points the map updates were inserted. My footnotes could also go here, as they would break up the flow of the story if left in the sequence.

Still interested ?