Story versus Poetry formats

How you display your works is largely up to you. But a simple example of a different approach to layout is the difference between fics formatted as stories and those formatted as poems. In general, Stories are left aligned with the first line of each paragraph indented. Poems, by contrast tend to be centrally aligned with little indentation.

There is also something to be said for it being more acceptable to add different fonts, colour and images to poetry.

Aligning Your Text

There are two ways to align your text.

Manually Using the Rich Text Box

The most straight-forward method is to align the text in the Rich Text screen of the Chapter Edit Box.

Centring as part of the work skin

To add central alignment as part of the work skin, you need a command in the code relating to text.

In this case, the line of code is:

text-align: center;