Subject: [FFML] [Info] Thanks for help about Posting!
From: Ohmen1@aol.com
Date: 8/24/1998, 11:31 PM
To: ffml@fanfic.com

Hello To The FFML Again,
     I wanted to thank everybody that was kind enough to send me a reply about
posting to the FFML.  One person even sent me a small macro that would set
everything up for me!  Below I have listed the steps and recommended settings
that were sent to me.  Perhaps they could be useful to other people.

     Out of many replies, by far the most common suggestions were to save the
file as Text With Line Breaks, and to use the Courier font.  I had suggestions
range from having the Font Size anywhere from 8 to 12.

     One person recommended I use the Ariel font with size 10, and one person
recommended New Times Roman at size 10 (incidentally, this is the font and
size I wrote in and would have liked to keep it in, but I have decided to go
with the majority and switch, to be on the safer side).  And one person
specifically recommended that I use MSDOS Text With Line Breaks.

     The steps for conversion were as follows:
         1)  Convert the Font and Font Size to Courier 10.
         2)  Change the left-hand margin/indent so that the line length is
about 70.
              To determine the length, type the numbers 0-9 along the top of
the page
              seven times.
         3)  Go through and clean up the file, which has been shuffled to fit
the new 
              page size.
         4)  Go to the Save As function and change the Save As Type field so
that it
              reads 'Text With Line Breaks'
         5)  Save the file
         6)  Close the file and reopen it. This should remove any 'special'
characters
              that were unable to be converted.
         7)  You are now able to safely cut/copy-and-paste the story to the
mail
              service.

     I hope this helps somebody out there who was having the same problems I
was.
If anybody sees a glaring problem with what I have written here, please let me
know!  I plan on releasing the prelude and first chapters to my stories within
the next couple of days.  Sigh, I hope people think they are worth all the
fuss I seem to be making over them in regards to these posts. 

Ohmen1@aol.com