ita wouldn't like it. it would force spaces, wouldn't it?
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Rebecca Lizard - Feb 16, 2003 11:02:30 pm PST #3087 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Noumenon - Feb 16, 2003 11:04:15 pm PST #3088 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Now I want a quick-edit em-dash. Though it would insert spaces. Hmm.
Now why is it that quick-edit has to insert spaces? I sometimes use t i or t t just because the quick-edits don't allow me to emphasize things within words like the t in ita. And that can be important! t quite cowed
§ ita § - Feb 16, 2003 11:05:27 pm PST #3089 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Quick edit inserts spaces because
hard returns (which end every quick edit) insert a space.
Mostly it's how WX worked, and I'm in no coding space right now to see all the ramifications.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 16, 2003 11:07:09 pm PST #3090 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Now why is it that quick-edit has to insert spaces?
'Cause you use a hard return, which gets read as a space in the HTML. It's possible that someone smarter than I knows a programming sort of way around that, but even the knowledge of its possibility is nothing at all in my level of HTML-understanding.
Noumenon - Feb 16, 2003 11:07:42 pm PST #3091 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
That's a good reason. I don't like the baggage on hard returns, though. I had a huge debugging problem once trying to print text into Notepad with C++ because you have to use \\l, \\n, or something weird instead of just the linebreak.
Jon B. - Feb 16, 2003 11:27:55 pm PST #3092 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
ita wouldn't like it. it would force spaces, wouldn't it?
So what if it forces spaces? Why is it bad for an em-dash to have a space on either side?
§ ita § - Feb 16, 2003 11:29:13 pm PST #3093 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No!!!!!!!
That way RL wins!
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 16, 2003 11:30:01 pm PST #3094 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Oh, who's competitive now?
Jon B. - Feb 16, 2003 11:32:11 pm PST #3095 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
You guys are arguing over whether an em-dash should have spaces? It's times like these that I'm not so sorry that I'm behind in a bunch of threads.
t edit I'm on RL's side.
P.M. Marc - Feb 16, 2003 11:34:00 pm PST #3096 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
You guys are arguing over whether an em-dash should have spaces? It's times like these that I'm not so sorry that I'm behind in a bunch of threads.
Yeah. The Angel thread kind of got a little off the topic...
I'd still like it as a quick-edit, although in my perfect world, there are no spaces around it, so perhaps I'll just get really good at typing the entity.