Pasting text into Editor

A few notes before we get started on this next step.

Online publishing is tricky. If it were as simple as cutting and pasting from a formatted Word document, all of our lives would be much easier. Unfortunately, it is not that simple.

People use different web browsers, different versions of Word, different operating systems, etc., all of which impact the way that text behaves on the Web.

Following these steps carefully will result in cleaner and more consistent copy in all articles, fewer headaches for you and fewer headaches for your tireless editors.

The steps are not difficult, but it is vital that you do your best to follow them.

Tip: The easiest and cleanest way to make a dash is to type the word, then a space, then two hyphens, then a space, then the next word. That will give you a nice clean dash.

AP style reminders:

- Only 1 space between sentences.

- Commas and periods ALWAYS go inside quotation marks.

- Do not indent paragraphs, instead enter an extra return between paragraphs.

- Turn off smart or "curly" quotes, or use this tool to clean up your text before pasting. jhy.io/tools/convert-word-to-plain-text

- Composition titles, like play titles, go in double quotation marks in text. Do not italicize such titles.

- Do not use the serial (Oxford) comma unless to avoid ambiguity. That's the final comma before the "and" in a series of items:

ex. "Hamlet," "Macbeth" and "The Tempest" are my three favorite plays.

Your text, before pasting it into the KDHX.org editor, should look essentially like this: Click for example