River ,'Objects In Space'
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
No!!!!!!!
That way RL wins!
Oh, who's competitive now?
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.
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.
Coincidentally, I was just searching for that entity yesterday when I was HTMLifying the Mythology FAQ. I put spaces around it. :P