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Re: Please consider fixing FTX...
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Fri, 27 May 2005 19:40:39 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Dan Boger wrote:
But that means you need to store two copies of FTX posts - one
converted, and one not.  Not that that's a bad thing, but it's something
to think about.

Well, I figured that'd be quicker than doing the conversion every time. Disk
space is cheap. CPU isn't as much.

As for tables, we'll have to use your old code (or to write new code)
that will convert the silly '~' format into tables.

My old code? I wrote something for work that translated html into textural
tables, but can't use that... Plus, tables with images don't work quite as well,
since images may overrun the cells they're being formatted into.

DaveE



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(...) But that means you need to store two copies of FTX posts - one converted, and one not. Not that that's a bad thing, but it's something to think about. As for tables, we'll have to use your old code (or to write new code) that will convert the (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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