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Query for those who write with the intent to publish on web platforms ie. AO3, once upon a time DW/LJ, other fic archives.
Do you code the HTML as you go, writing it out on the page? Or do you do the HTML coding only when you post the fic?
edit: Wow, I feel completely odd writer out now. I write everything in a word processor, and copypasta into AO3, hand-coding for DW/LJ...
I mean, I once created an MS Word macro that coded bold and italics and underline based on the formatting but that was back in ye olde dayes of LJ when you'd post the entire story on LJ...
Do you code the HTML as you go, writing it out on the page? Or do you do the HTML coding only when you post the fic?
edit: Wow, I feel completely odd writer out now. I write everything in a word processor, and copypasta into AO3, hand-coding for DW/LJ...
I mean, I once created an MS Word macro that coded bold and italics and underline based on the formatting but that was back in ye olde dayes of LJ when you'd post the entire story on LJ...
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As in, I HTML my LJ/DW entries as I type them and don't use the RTF, but I write my stories in a word processer and have either a) run a macro to add HTML, b) let the site work their conversion magic on it. Even ff.net (by the time I started using it, which I think was pretty late) had the ability to convert my uploaded word file to the correct bold and italics. AO3, I barely think about it, although I check the finished document before I actually post.
This probably comes back to me being lazy-ass: if I don't have to do the html coding work, why should I bother? So long as it looks okay (and, frankly, apart from occasionally having to set things to right-justified, or fix endless <span> tags, and maybe set up 'texting' with a monospaced font, it generally does), I'm good.