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Is there a way to format these comments with line feeds and indents, so it doesnât end up like a big lump of text?
(TUNE: âShooting Starâ, Bad Company)
Ginny was a sane girl, didnât give in to the Mad âŠSaid sheâd fix the Brain-O-Mat, give it evârything she had!Sergio was listening, couldnât fathom, scratched his head âŠGinny tried to slow it down, but the guy just shrugged and said,âWell, I guess âŠâ
Artificial ECM, gonna flood with cytokines!Gotta tip my hat to them, and their clever mad designs!But the strange mechanics, Sergio canât get at all!Hope nobody panics, but thereâs zombies in the hall!âWell, I guess ⊠well, I guess âŠâ
[CHORUS:]Well, I guess that I will be shooting stuff!Well, I guess ⊠I confess âŠI confess that I will be shooting stuff!Yes I will, althoughMy ammoâs low âŠWhat a mess!
Instructions will be found here: http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/Pibgorn/StyleGuide.html
But in the short term⊠if you run all the lines of your poem together (no line breaks as such) and insert the HTML line break code < p > (remove the spaces when you do it) in each place you want a line break to appear, it should come out the way you want.
Well, there are various ways to format text.   <br> can be used to add blank lines.   will add blank spaces.My list gets updated more often.
âJust think of your job as âexperimentally distributing low-mass molecular structures accelerated to sub-mach speeds within the constraints of Newtonian physicsâ. Granted, conducting actual experiments is normally the task of TAs and lab assistants, but admit it â itâs sometimes fun to get your hands dirty yourself."
So there actually is a way to produce blank lines between texts?Testing 1, 2, 3Oddly enough, it doesnât look like the zombies are going after them, at least not yet.
Yâknow, given the number of comment boards out there, and the number of people who post poems, essays and the like on them, isnât it a bit weird that there isnât some semi-standardized basic word-processing plug-in for such tasks? Nope, ya just gotta know HTML (which was, like Postscript, intended more as a language to be generated by other programs, not end users)⊠if the site allows it (Facebook, probably the biggest bull-board system out there, doesnât allow any formatting at all). Itâs as if the people running these systems never actually use them⊠or even bother looking at how their users are using the systems.
OK, Iâm just pulling your leg there. I spent 26 years in the software business. I know the people who build these systems never bother to see how the customers are using themâŠ
Ida No about 12 years ago
âAnd can you make me some coffee while youâre at it?â
Eddurd about 12 years ago
Is there a way to format these comments with line feeds and indents, so it doesnât end up like a big lump of text?
(TUNE: âShooting Starâ, Bad Company)
Ginny was a sane girl, didnât give in to the Mad âŠSaid sheâd fix the Brain-O-Mat, give it evârything she had!Sergio was listening, couldnât fathom, scratched his head âŠGinny tried to slow it down, but the guy just shrugged and said,âWell, I guess âŠâ
Artificial ECM, gonna flood with cytokines!Gotta tip my hat to them, and their clever mad designs!But the strange mechanics, Sergio canât get at all!Hope nobody panics, but thereâs zombies in the hall!âWell, I guess ⊠well, I guess âŠâ
[CHORUS:]Well, I guess that I will be shooting stuff!Well, I guess ⊠I confess âŠI confess that I will be shooting stuff!Yes I will, althoughMy ammoâs low âŠWhat a mess!
puddleglum1066 about 12 years ago
Instructions will be found here: http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/Pibgorn/StyleGuide.html
But in the short term⊠if you run all the lines of your poem together (no line breaks as such) and insert the HTML line break code < p > (remove the spaces when you do it) in each place you want a line break to appear, it should come out the way you want.
puddleglum1066 about 12 years ago
Oh, and if you want a blank line (between stanzas or paragraphs), put the separator on its own line by itself.
puddleglum1066 about 12 years ago
Yâknow, I thought having to effectively intersperse a text-formatting program in your text went out with, oh, troffâŠ
Ida No about 12 years ago
Well, there are various ways to format text.   <br> can be used to add blank lines.   will add blank spaces.My list gets updated more often.
Ida No about 12 years ago
âJust think of your job as âexperimentally distributing low-mass molecular structures accelerated to sub-mach speeds within the constraints of Newtonian physicsâ. Granted, conducting actual experiments is normally the task of TAs and lab assistants, but admit it â itâs sometimes fun to get your hands dirty yourself."
Darwinskeeper about 12 years ago
So there actually is a way to produce blank lines between texts?Testing 1, 2, 3Oddly enough, it doesnât look like the zombies are going after them, at least not yet.
puddleglum1066 about 12 years ago
Yâknow, given the number of comment boards out there, and the number of people who post poems, essays and the like on them, isnât it a bit weird that there isnât some semi-standardized basic word-processing plug-in for such tasks? Nope, ya just gotta know HTML (which was, like Postscript, intended more as a language to be generated by other programs, not end users)⊠if the site allows it (Facebook, probably the biggest bull-board system out there, doesnât allow any formatting at all). Itâs as if the people running these systems never actually use them⊠or even bother looking at how their users are using the systems.
OK, Iâm just pulling your leg there. I spent 26 years in the software business. I know the people who build these systems never bother to see how the customers are using themâŠ
Eddurd about 12 years ago
Testing formatting âŠ
Should be a blank line aboveShould be another blank lineItalicsbold Indent by a spaceâIndent by an em-space
Eddurd about 12 years ago
Whaddaya know?! Just like the regular SH comments! Proper filkmatting returns tomorrow.