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Old 05-09-2013, 07:41 AM   #7
lipstick
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ducks, turtle & wombat, thank you for taking the time to help the stranded. Love your animal kingdom but I'm lipstick so you can see that even tho I wrote a book about a baby rhino, I'm nowhere in your league. I'm a novelist & when it comes to coding, just call me "clueless" (or even much, much worse + expletives) and you'd be right!

ducks—I don't see a <div> tag so not sure how to follow your direx.

turtle—this is a novel (Decades) which was professionally formatted for me several years ago so don't know why he made the formatting choices he did at that time. I'm revising/updating the text so used Sigil to make the changes. All went well until the crash! Are you saying that I should add the line <p>yadda yadda yadda</p> after the last line of the chapter which is "Just like her life."? Won't that add the words: yadda yadda yadda?

wombat—Wish I could automate the whole d*mn thing! :-)

Here's a copy of the last lines of code starting with line 105. Is there a clue here of what's gone wrong?

Code:
 <p class="chapstart">&nbsp; &nbsp; Then she got up to leave. The meeting was over and she picked up her bag and briefcase and headed toward the door. It was almost quarter to one and Nat Bain stood up. He was leaner than Barbara had thought and slightly shorter.&nbsp;</p>

  <p class="chapstart">&nbsp; &nbsp; “Lunch?” he said unexpectedly.</p>

  <p class="chapstart">&nbsp; &nbsp; Barbara hesitated. Was Nat Bain asking her to lunch? Or was he asking her something else? &nbsp;Was he asking if she would have sex with him?</p>

  <p class="chapstart">&nbsp; &nbsp; The Barbara Roser of the Fifties had been so untried, the thought wouldn’t have occurred to her. The Barbara Roser of the Sixties, testing new liberties, might have taken him up on the implication. But this was the Seventies, and Barbara, more experienced, more disillusioned, had lived and learned.</p>

  <p class="chapstart">&nbsp; &nbsp; She agreed to have lunch with him but lunch didn’t turn out the way she’d imagined.</p>

  <p class="chapstart">&nbsp; &nbsp; Just like her life.</p>
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Last edited by theducks; 05-09-2013 at 09:08 AM. Reason: wrapped in code tg
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