My formatting in the novel Didn't work properly after publishing IN Royal Road

But on Scribblehub, works fine.... In chapter preview too it shows ok, SO what is the problem. Formatting get messed up only after publishing

Scribble hub (See chapter 12) - https://www.scribblehub.com/read/2295105-i-refuse-to-level-up-dont-ask-about-my-sisters-opinion-on-this/chapter/2365375/

Oh, the indents? Yeah, RR helpfully removes all indents for you and makes sure you're using double-spaced paragraphs.

Honestly, I wouldn't fight it. Just let it do its thing.

It's annoying and I don't think there's an easy fix. You'll either have to live with it or edit everything you post to fix the formatting.

I use indents with no spaces between the paragraphs for my story entitled forever eve.

And here is how you do it:
Enter the View Source Code screen by pressing this button: [< >]
And insert this line of code: <div style="text-indent: 0.3in;">
This will create an indent of three-tenths of an inch [in] at the beginning of every paragraph. You can also use pixels to create an indent [px] or points [pt] or em's [em]. 
Then at the end of the text you wish to use indents, close off the command by inserting </div>

And to remove the spaces between the paragraphs, delete the lines the code between the paragraphs that say: <div>&nbsp;</div>
There are other ways to remove the spaces, but this method works just fine.

You can also use margin-left instead of text-indent, and the command margin-right will create an indent on the right hand side of the text. (I think the Margin commands only work with <p style>, but I could be wrong. They might also work with <div style>) 

And of course, there are other workarounds and all sorts of format commands, but I think this is enough for now.

ArDeeBurger Wrote: I use indents with no spaces between the paragraphs for my story entitled forever eve.
(etc.)

This is very useful information, thanks: I'll make a note of it because I indent the first lines of paragraphs in my WP original, but of course RR by default removes the indents.

However, I've had a quick glance at your 'forever eve' (first chapter) and I don't think it works there, because your paragraphs are very short: most of them only one line. That makes the text layout look ugly and disjointed. May I suggest you remove the indents from there, but use them when writing longer paragraphs?

Lewis Berneu Wrote:

ArDeeBurger Wrote: I use indents with no spaces between the paragraphs for my story entitled forever eve.
(etc.)

This is very useful information, thanks: I'll make a note of it because I indent the first lines of paragraphs in my WP original, but of course RR by default removes the indents.

However, I've had a quick glance at your 'forever eve' (first chapter) and I don't think it works there, because your paragraphs are very short: most of them only one line. That makes the text layout look ugly and disjointed. May I suggest you remove the indents from there, but use them when writing longer paragraphs?

Well, you see, using no indents and double spacing between paragraphs is exactly the format I would think you ought to use when posting long paragraphs on the internet.

If I use the double spacing format that Royal Road provides me as a default, all those short one line paragraphs would be afloat in a sea of blank space. And if I forgo both the indents and the double spacing, the text will then become block of solid print.

So, you know. You gotta pick something. 🪕

ArDeeBurger Wrote: So, you know. You gotta pick something. 🪕

Ah well, we can't always agree about everything!

I tend to follow the practice seen in most paperbacks. Indent the first line of every paragraph, except the first paragraph of a chapter or chapter section. In some stories I 'drop' the first character of a chapter - but that's a personal quirk of mine. On RR you can only emulate that, I believe, by putting the first character in a larger font.

I'm not familiar with all these HTML4/HTML5 gadgets. Is there one that will force RR to use half line spacing between paragraphs, or similar? That might be useful.

Lewis Berneu Wrote: I'm not familiar with all these HTML4/HTML5 gadgets. Is there one that will force RR to use half line spacing between paragraphs, or similar? That might be useful.

I have tried. There is not.
But I'd love to be proven wrong. 

Lewis Berneu Wrote:

ArDeeBurger Wrote: I use indents with no spaces between the paragraphs for my story entitled forever eve.
(etc.)

This is very useful information, thanks: I'll make a note of it...

Update: I tried out your advice on first line indent and I'm pleased to say it works fine! However, I've decided not to use it in my current w-i-p because many of the paragraphs are quite short (a common trait in modern writing I think - we can't all compose paragraphs like Proust's.) and the reading panel (in Windows, at least) is quite wide. Thanks for the info anyway.