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(...) LOL!!! OK, I shouldn't've crossposted to .off-topic.geek without giving a link (with that weird URL thing I do) to the top-level node in the thread, explaining what this was all about. Here's that: (URL) one clean way to do lines like your (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: markup syntax for member pages
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Todd Lehman wrote in several messages ... (...) ... (...) [Todd], {I} must have (missed the start <of this>, but why)? _All_ you're doing is (forcing) people l{i}ke me to write <[pre>-processors] to remove the [garbage] that (you{'}<ve)> let (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: markup syntax for member pages
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(...) OK Ed, I just quickly went back to my History file in my web browser and checked the original source...it does indeed let you change formatting right in the middle of a sentence like that -- although it will not properly abut the comma against (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) LOL!!! OK, I guess some things in DOS, like \ instead of /, are more disgusting than (...) Oh heck, sure -- that makes perfect sense there! :) In fact, I'm sure those letters must be common keys for those command in lots of word processors. (C (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm in shock. I guess you were never as DOS based as I was. B I and C were the keys in Word Perfect( and several other Dos based word processors) for those exact commands (usually with the <ALT> or <CTRL> key). (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: markup syntax for member pages
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(...) Whoops -- ambiguity alert again... Darn it, when will I learn to write?! By "it" in "if it fit in nicely," I meant whatever markup is chosen for member-pages, not the one mentioned three nodes up on the thread. (Darn antecedents! :-) --Todd (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Huh?! Why? It's the most disgusting thing I've ever seen! A single character in column 1 to modify the entire line? That's somewhat intuitive for *, ], and >, but for b and i and c it's pathetic. (...) Chell specking would be fun. Anyway, it (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: markup syntax for member pages
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(...) Reconsider not considering it. And add spell checking as well. To those of you who read my posts, spellchecking would be a welcome relief (you don't need to search Dejanews for proof). And I'd love to be able to format text in posts to LUGNET. (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: markup syntax for member pages
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(...) Hmm, interesting, I just sort-of half-randomly stumbled onto yet another markup format... It goes like this: You type text as paragraphs separated by blank lines, and you put special characters in column 1 if you want to do something special (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Jeeves
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(...) Sure it did, it pointed to fibblesnork... close enough for me. (...) I wouldn't know, it's not as big a problem for me as it is for some. :-) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Digital Photography
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(...) Hrmmm.... do you mean digital video? Dunno about that, but digital still cameras surpassed 640x480 a LONG time ago. (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Wow -- I wonder if their technology 18 years ago was up to par with the digital video cameras on the market today? Knowing the tricks Sony can pull, I suspect it probably was. Anyone know the story on higher-res (> 640x480x24bit) digital (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) which LEGO website is the best! (...) someone who has the same name as you. Steve (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I just ran across this while sniffing around the Yahoo message boards to see what rumors were extant about my old company... (1) (URL) this query: (URL) found a few new things and some stale links. Ed Boxer gets a mention! For egoboo I tried this (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) OK, there's now a little honeycomb-dots icon thingy for the top bar -- it says "Traffic" beneath the icon, and it takes you to the /news/traffic/ page. It automatigically appears at the top of any of the newer pages in the system (that is, (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No, it's using a homebrew. I probably should look into Text::Query though, if it's loaded with callbacks and/or easy member-function overloading. What I threw together isn't very smart about word roots, and it isn't very fast either. But it (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Tan color again?
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(...) Well, whatever the case, I just used that module for a CGI script at work. I *really* like it. Espcially, in that you can construct query strings approaching the usefulness of boolean algebra, but with a less wordy syntax. I noticed (1) that (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: True Geekness
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(...) Well, one reason is that that /news/groups/ page is obsolescent, but as soon as some meaningful icon for the traffic/activity page comes to mind, then it'll probably appear in a whole bunch of places. --Todd (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Web Site Announcement and HTML question.
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I have been working on redesigning my Web page (again I know) with a better tool. Everything looks good and seems to work great except for one thing. I have a Menu at the top of my page that has Hypertext links to sections of my homepage. These (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Tasty!
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(...) Because if it were green, you wouldn't know when to stop mowing your lawn. (...) Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese, Gromit. (...) Heh. Someone told me about "Dante II: Damnation Bugaloo" where the Tootsie-Pop Owl, whilst suffering in (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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