Guest guest Posted February 6, 2004 Report Share Posted February 6, 2004 In a message dated 2/6/04 3:33:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, ChrisMasterjohn writes: > can you check and see what's going on with your email program? all of your > recent posts have " & amp;amp;amp;nbsp; " throughout, which is the html for " & amp;amp; " > followed by a space. did you recently set your emails to " html " ? it's hard > to follow some of them because this code is peppered throughout. example > below: Suze, I don't know how to fix it, but it only occurs at double spaces for some reason. So I'm going to try my best to type only one space between periods. I tried this in a test and it worked, and should be working in this email. In the mean time, were you able to comprehend my posts? In other words, would you like me to edit any so that you can respond easier? I don't mind doing so if you need me to. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2004 Report Share Posted February 6, 2004 Quoting ChrisMasterjohn@...: > > I don't know how to fix it, but it only occurs at double spaces for some > reason. So I'm going to try my best to type only one space between > periods. I > tried this in a test and it worked, and should be working in this email. In HTML, all whitespace between words is collapsed to a single space. If you want an extra space, you have to specify a non-breaking space, denoted by & nbsp; in HTML code. Also, an ampersand, being a metacharacter, can't be represented directly in HTML; you need to use & amp;. Apparently your text was being converted twice for some reason. First the & nbsp;s were thrown in, and then the ampersands in them were converted to & amp;s, giving you & amp;nbsp; -- Berg bberg@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2004 Report Share Posted February 6, 2004 >I don't know how to fix it, but it only occurs at double spaces for some >reason. So I'm going to try my best to type only one space between >periods. I >tried this in a test and it worked, and should be working in this email. k. i never type in double spaces myself. i don't think that's common protocol with emails anyway. > >In the mean time, were you able to comprehend my posts? In other >words, would >you like me to edit any so that you can respond easier? I don't >mind doing so >if you need me to. well, thanks for offering, but not necessary :-) Suze Fisher Lapdog Design, Inc. Web Design & Development http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader, Mid Coast Maine http://www.westonaprice.org ---------------------------- " The diet-heart idea (the idea that saturated fats and cholesterol cause heart disease) is the greatest scientific deception of our times. " -- Mann, MD, former Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee; heart disease researcher. The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics <http://www.thincs.org> ---------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2004 Report Share Posted February 6, 2004 Quoting Suze Fisher <s.fisher22@...>: > >I don't know how to fix it, but it only occurs at double spaces for some > >reason. So I'm going to try my best to type only one space between > >periods. I > >tried this in a test and it worked, and should be working in this email. > > k. i never type in double spaces myself. i don't think that's common > protocol with emails anyway. How did that convention arise, anyway? Was it to leave room for corrections when using a typewriter? -- Berg bberg@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2004 Report Share Posted February 6, 2004 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > > k. i never type in double spaces myself. i don't think that's common > > protocol with emails anyway. > > How did that convention arise, anyway? Was it to leave room for corrections > when using a typewriter? > > -- > Berg > bberg@c... @@@@@@@@@@@@@ I would assume for the advantage in reading perception... One extra space could hardly make a difference for error-correction... Mike SE Pennsylvania Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2004 Report Share Posted February 6, 2004 - >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. - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2004 Report Share Posted February 6, 2004 --- 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. > > - @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 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... Speaking of trivial matters, has anyone noticed that the bottom of most posts on this list have many lines of junk, like from , that don't get trimmed? It a great inefficiency when reading posts using the extremely convenient and time-saving " expand messages " option on the website, not to mention the general disadvantages of untrimmed posts. Mike SE Pennsylvania Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2004 Report Share Posted February 6, 2004 @@@@@@@@@@@ > >I suppose I could see if there's anything there I can change, but I doubt > >it. wants their terms and conditions and whatnot, and the other > >links are sometimes useful. Maybe I could make it more space- efficient, > >though -- if there are any settings I can modify. I haven't explored the > >entire control system yet, though. > > I'm not sure at this point, but it used to be you could > pay $15/year and not get the ads. > > -- Heidi @@@@@@@@@@@@@@ It's not ads, and it's not anything the list owner needs to do; it's just trimming posts instead of having 5 duplicates of the same bottom- attachments from in every post... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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