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Re: Extra characters
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:14:52 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Dan Boger wrote:
> If you think that's bad, see Jake's recent post - with all the '¬'
> instead of CRs, it's just not readable.
This is not actually a shortcoming of FTX but a stylistic error. The forced
line break character is not the only way to cause a <BR>. 99% of the time, in
fact, the forced line break character is never needed.
Of the 26 forced line break characters used in the post you're referring to,
only 6 were necessary (two used after the boldfaced names within the article and
four in the sig*) and the other 20 were completely unnecessary.
I totally agree that it approached unreadability -- but it's not FTX per se that
made it unreadable. I guess it would be nice if the posting interface could
flag people about superfluous forced line break characters.
I suspect my documentation isn't clear enough on the use of the forced line
break character. It's only intendeded to be used when there's no other way to
make a line break where you want it. In the 20 superfluous cases mentioned
above, a simple double-spacing between paragraphs would have generated the same
effect.
--Todd
* (alternatively, a paragraph type of : or ; could be used instead of forced
line breaks in these four cases)
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| (...) Among other things. I think it's better than some of your other docs (and better than the average help text these days, that's for sure) but it still is a bit impenetrable in some spots. I found myself struggling to get control of layout in (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) If you think that's bad, see Jake's recent post - with all the '¬' instead of CRs, it's just not readable. I hope one day there'll be a filter to translate FTX into plain text, for all us email/news users. I could implement something on my (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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