Are hyphens okay, or will we need to change them all to underscores?
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Jessica - Apr 03, 2007 12:12:19 pm PDT #1142 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Gudanov - Apr 03, 2007 12:12:50 pm PDT #1143 of 25496
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I think dash '-' is pretty safe too, but underscore when in doubt is a pretty good policy. Lots of filesystems on UNIX can handle all kinds of weird characters but who knows what file system will be in use.
X-post: I think you'll be safe with hyphens.
Tom Scola - Apr 03, 2007 12:30:30 pm PDT #1144 of 25496
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Technically, the only character that isn't legal in a Unix filename is the forward slash "/" character. Spaces and other metacharacters make things more difficult, and they can trip you up, but it's possible to use them.
Jessica - Apr 03, 2007 12:37:27 pm PDT #1145 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
All we have currently are numbers, letters, and hyphens. We're using all-caps instead of all-lowercase, but none of our filenames are case-sensitive, so I'm guessing that will be okay.
Kevin - Apr 03, 2007 2:16:38 pm PDT #1146 of 25496
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Should be okay, although all lowercase is generally more standard. As long as the application using the files knows they are all caps, it's not a problem. It does vary with different flavours of UNIX, but letters, numbers and hyphens is fine across 'em all.
Typo Boy - Apr 03, 2007 2:54:07 pm PDT #1147 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I have a feeling this is going to provoke laughter. But is there an easy way to export Word to clean html ? No fonts, no CSS since it is being plugged into a blog template with CSS of its own.
Tom Scola - Apr 03, 2007 3:08:27 pm PDT #1148 of 25496
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
I can't link to it from my phone, but you want to look for a program called "tidy".
Kevin - Apr 03, 2007 4:26:22 pm PDT #1149 of 25496
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Typo Boy: [link]
Typo Boy - Apr 03, 2007 4:37:15 pm PDT #1150 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Tidy cleans up the code. But it leaves the font and classes and such. How to do I get it to generate simple html, no css, given source with CSS?
Typo Boy - Apr 03, 2007 4:58:35 pm PDT #1151 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Ah and Kevin's link helps. It still produces a few simple classes; but they are simple enough to eliminate with search and replace. (The template can't handle classes at all, unless I want to inherit from the template CSS, and it is pretty restrictive even on that.)