Hey, my all-knowing flist

[norwich36]

When you're trying to read a story but it's been formatted too wide for your screen (in other words, you'd have to use the effing horizontal scroll bar to read every individual sentence) and neither style=mine nor format=light will fix it (question marks omitted here to avoid wonky formatting on this post--I know to insert them), is there anything else you can do other than cutting and pasting the whole story into a word file to read it?

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[skuf.livejournal.com]

If ?format=light can't save it, I'm not sure turning off styles in Firefox or similar browser will, either - possibly your only chance is to fix the bad formatting with a greasemonkey script, but by then copy/pasting is probably a whole lot faster.

To pave the way for those who come after you, you could also try contacting the OP and ask hir to fix the formatting, pretty pls :o)

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I might do that if the story wasn't already 4 years old, you know?

[skuf.livejournal.com]

I'm an equal-opportunity formatting elitist bitch - I'm as likely to comment on new as old fics :oP

[beet]

You can try copying this js code, paste it into the address bar after you have the page called up, and hit enter. It is supposed to remove formatting.

javascript:(function(){var%20i,x;for(i=0;x=document.styleSheets[i];++i)x.disabled=true;})();

It's from here: Bookmarklets for zapping annoyances If that one doesn't work maybe one of the others will.

Good luck! I hate that crap!

[allzugern.livejournal.com]

Go you! I'm saving that fab link for myself ;-)

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I will try that and see if it helps.