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Re: Please consider fixing FTX...
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Tue, 31 May 2005 20:27:59 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Dave Schuler wrote:
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Ah, yes--now I see. I manually numbered my list of sage suggestions without
realizing that an FTX option was available.
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Out of curiosity, when you wrote the post, how did you add in the newlines? That
is, when I’m writing a post in FTX, I almost NEVER use the ¬ character for
newlines. Instead, I forget. This causes problems like this:
Pieces That Are Awesome:
- 2x4 Chrome Bricks
- Pitchforks
- White Garage Doors
- Classic Space Torsos
So, that was SUPPOSED to be a list. But I forgot to add ¬ after each line. So
FTX just puts it all onto one line. This would work just great for plain text
viewers, but NOT for FTX. For both FTX and plain text to look ok, I SHOULD have
written:
Pieces That Are Awesome:
- 2x4 Chrome Bricks
- Pitchforks
- White Garage Doors
- Classic Space Torsos
Now, THAT shows up relatively as I intended (minus the leading space before each
minus sign, which is also what makes that not recognized as a decreasing FTX
list). But the way that you wrote your earlier post appears to have been:
Pieces That Are Awesome:
- 2x4 Chrome Bricks
- Pitchforks
- White Garage
Doors
- Classic Space Torsos
Which still looks fine in FTX, but is now rather unreadable in plain text, since
it’s now on ONE line of plain text. However, did you actually write your whole
post like that? IE, without “normal” newlines? Just asking since it would seem
that writing that post without ever hitting the “enter” button seems oddly
difficult-- and if you used some other method that’s doing some sort of
conversion, maybe that conversion should be modified to include both an FTX and
a normal newline, for the sake of readability.
DaveE
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| (...) Like I said, I'm not playing to the cheap seats. Newsreaders Be Darned! Honestly, it never even occurred to me. I've accessed LUGNET via the web ever since I started reading it, and the foibles of the newsreader interface have been, at best, (...) (19 years ago, 1-Jun-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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