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What Do The Markings Do?

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What do all these markings like < H > do.I already know what < J > does,but what do all the others do? :?:
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Poisen Jam(for now) NT wrote:What do all these markings like < H > do.I already know what < J > does,but what do all the others do? :?:
What markings are you talking about? Where are you seeing them?
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Poisen Jam(for now) NT wrote:What do all these markings like < H > do.I already know what < J > does,but what do all the others do? :?:
What markings are you talking about? Where are you seeing them?
<P> When you create an episode,you can see them at the top saying u are limited to useing these thing blablabla or in other words,the page where you createe an episode
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Sir Toby wrote:
Poisen Jam(for now) NT wrote:What do all these markings like < H > do.I already know what < J > does,but what do all the others do? :?:
What markings are you talking about? Where are you seeing them?
<P> When you create an episode,you can see them at the top saying u are limited to useing these thing blablabla or in other words,the page where you createe an episode
I think you are talking about the HTML tags that you can use in episodes to get the layout you want. In summary:

<p> Starts a new paragraph.
<br> "break" - Starts a new line (like <p> but without a blank line in between).
<hr> "horizontal rule" - puts a horizontal line all across the page. Useful for indicating that you are shifting to a different place or time.
<i> and </i> turn italics on and off.
<b> and </b> turn boldface on and off.
<u> and </u> turn underlining on and off.
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JH is Correct

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Yeah, those are just the allowed HTML tags for episodes within Extend-A-Story. I believe JH has documented all of the allowed tags, and what they do. Let me know if you have any further questions.
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What exactly is the reason for the tag <P>? Why can't we just press return to space out our sentences. Let me guess. It's used so that people don't make 10 spaces in between sentences, right?
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Web pages, including episodes of our addventure, are written in HTML - HyperText Markup Language, in which <p> says that you want to start a new paragraph. If you try to get a newline by pressing Return, it will just be ignored. That's not a decision made by Sir Toby but just the way that HTML works.
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