Anyone know how AO3 coding works

[sarren]

I just attempted to copy and paste a polished version of a fic for a challenge, only to find that for some reason it's picked up one of my italicise tags early in the fic and repeat it all the rest of the way through the fic between every paragraph break. so that I've ended up with <p><i> words</i></p>

I tried the c&p from both Word and googledocs, same result.

It's quite a decent length and picking them all out individually is going to be very frustrating.

Edit: It was user error, because of course it was, AO3 is awesome.

Comments

[maharetr]

Ugh, I've been hit by this one a few times -- it's one tiny little incorrect italics tag somewhere, that then from the reader's end removes all italics after it (or italicises everything, depending on the mistake) and adds all that extra bumpf to the poster-facing end.

If you have access to the original text, awesome, fix the borked italics tag, C&P the entirety of the fic, and you're good to go. If not (as I have a couple of times, cos reasons?) find italics tags with spaces around them replace with [nothing], worked a slightly fiddly but relatively quick treat. <3

[sarren]

Thank you! I did so much checking but didn't think to use Find, got too frustrated. Yay!