I've tried to add old txt files to Word and then clean them up but if there are no paragraph breaks it's nearly impossible if the story is too long. But assuming it's a regular text file what you can do is open the txt Microsoft Word, hit the button to view hidden formatting marks add a space between paragraphs. I think I'd try and manually add paragraph html tags. There are steps to cleaning up TXT that are sort of specific if you want to do it faster. I'd have to refresh my memory at Mobile Read. I know a lot of people have gone there to ask for help converting TXT files to ebook formats.
I've only tried this with a few text files because it's A LOT of work to get them to look okay. but some of those stories I realize aren't anywhere else online. It sorts of sucks that back when everyone was using 56k modems that txt was the primary format for sharing fic online.
If you are able to save the file as html it sounds like you may have to go into the code and figure out why it's going off the page. Um not having seen the file it's hard to say what could be wrong. Can you send me the link at amalthia at gmail.com? Tomorrow when I'm home from work I can check it out and see if there is a simple fix for the problem.
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Date: 2011-02-17 07:54 am (UTC)I've only tried this with a few text files because it's A LOT of work to get them to look okay. but some of those stories I realize aren't anywhere else online. It sorts of sucks that back when everyone was using 56k modems that txt was the primary format for sharing fic online.
If you are able to save the file as html it sounds like you may have to go into the code and figure out why it's going off the page. Um not having seen the file it's hard to say what could be wrong. Can you send me the link at amalthia at gmail.com? Tomorrow when I'm home from work I can check it out and see if there is a simple fix for the problem.