Hardcopy submissions to publishers do not allow type changes to indicate italics and therefore underlining is used to indicate words that will be italicized in final print. In TXT submissions, you can *star* or _underscore_ items to indicate italics. You can easily find all your italicized or underlined words by Searching for the vowels--AEIOUY--in their italicized or underlined forms, or search for the italics code, whichever your word processor allows. You don't have to hunt them visually.

Replace tabs for insetting with multiple spaces.

In HTML, you may use the following calls:

• Fonts called may be Courier, Courier New, Times, or Times New Roman. Sans serif faces aren't very readable, and not appropriate for hardcopy ms. Most e-subs want these, too.
• Italics: <i> not <cite>; underlining is also OK as that's hardcopy ms format.
• <center><left><right> would be okay, though everything can be left justified.
• Inset items, like written things being read, by using blockquote or definition list.
• White or default grey backgrounds, no colors, illos, or patterns. Editors don't want to see pink paper and fancy fonts; we don't either.
• You can tab in with 3-5 unbreakable spaces, or put a full space between paragraphs.

Nothing else is needed, so everything else--DON'T USE IT. No header sizes, bold, tables, frames, &c. It's not about being trick, but about being utterly simple. Think "typewriter."

In all formats, indicate a purposeful line break in the text with ### in the line. Again, this is hard ms standard, to let the editor know you meant to break and the typewriter didn't hiccup.

If your word processor allows you a choice of .txt formats when converting from the native file format (.doc to .txt), choose ASCII DOS text if possible. Please check your line-wrapping in the browser and adjust so that paragraphs do not run endlessly to the right off the screen.