Post trimming 101

[Guest guest]

For those of you who may be interested here is a simple way to trim the

bottom of your posts.

1. Place the cursor between the text you wish to keep and the text you wish

to delete (see " A " below).

2. Press and hold <Ctrl> and <Shift> keys. Press <End>

This will highlight all text to the left of and below the cursor.

3. Press delete.

4. Presto! Chango! Unwanted text is gone!

This works in every software program I've used in modern times.

Enjoy! ;-)

Judith Alta

-----Original Message-----

From: Anton [mailto:michaelantonparker@...]

--- In , Idol <Idol@c...>

wrote:

> -

>

> >How did that convention arise, anyway? Was it to leave room for

corrections

> >when using a typewriter?

>

> The two-spaces-between-sentences convention? It was because

typewriters

> started out typically producing monospaced fonts, and adding an

extra space

> between sentences greatly enhanced readability. Personally I think

two

> spaces is still superior even with proportional fonts, but I guess

I'm in

> the minority on that one.

>

> -

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

" A " (PLACE CURSOR HERE.)

Makes sense! And reminds me that I've decided to make a personal

resolution to capitalize the beginning of my sentences to make it

easier for other people to read my often complicated and parantheses-

ridden emails... If anyone catches me slipping, don't hesitate to

offer words of remonstrance... This comes after many years of

haughtily and mostly intentionally disregarding this venerable

convention... In fact, some years ago on a list called " lowercase-

sound " I even went out of my way to capitalize the final letter of

each sentence and uncapitalize the first; it was sort of a joke but

my youthful defiance of convention (not as bold as dropping acid I

suppose) was given an inauspicious foothold in typographical

matters...

[Guest guest]

Oops! #2 should read:

This will highlight all text to the RIGHT of and below the cursor. . .

Sorry,

Judith Alta

Post trimming 101

For those of you who may be interested here is a simple way to trim the

bottom of your posts.

1. Place the cursor between the text you wish to keep and the text you wish

to delete (see " A " below).

2. Press and hold <Ctrl> and <Shift> keys. Press <End>

This will highlight all text to the left of and below the cursor.

3. Press delete.

4. Presto! Chango! Unwanted text is gone!

This works in every software program I've used in modern times.

Enjoy! ;-)

Judith Alta