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Hil R. - Jan 22, 2005 6:40:09 am PST #9363 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Lee, the reason that's happening is that the red text is coming from the red tag in Daniel's post. If that's not on the screen, no red.

However, when I'm looking at it, Daniel's post is the only one in red.


P.M. Marc - Jan 22, 2005 6:41:46 am PST #9364 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

Lee, is it fixed now? I wasn't getting bleedthrough on my machine, and I'm too lazy to check on the Mac.


Lee - Jan 22, 2005 6:45:23 am PST #9365 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

and when Daniel's post is on the screen, everything on the screen after it is in red.

Lee, the reason that's happening is that the red text is coming from the red tag in Daniel's post. If that's not on the screen, no red.

Yep. I just stated it in reverse.

Plei, it is fixed now.


DCJensen - Jan 22, 2005 6:55:10 am PST #9366 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.

Funny thing is, I intentionally double checked that I had two t /font tags, and paired the closes with the opens *before* typing in the "Happy Birthday Windsparrow" because of all the problems with that sort of thing. Plus someone else posted after I did and his post wasn't red for me following my post, so I went off to shovel the driveway and didn't check back. I'm using NS 7.02 in OS9

Huh. Weird.


P.M. Marc - Jan 22, 2005 7:02:26 am PST #9367 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

Funny thing is, I intentionally double checked that I had two tags, and paired the closes with the opens *before* typing in the "Happy Birthday Windsparrow" because of all the problems with that sort of thing. Plus someone else posted after I did and his post wasn't red for me following my post, so I went off to shovel the driveway and didn't check back. I'm using NS 7.02 in OS9

I think it was wigging because of the way some of the autoformatting works, just based on when I looked at the source of the message (thank you, Firefox!). I changed it so that it went "c font font bold happy br birthday br windsparrow /bold /font /font" (ETA: all on one line)

(BTW, you only need the one font tag with size="#" color="color"--it can save a body typing!)


Typo Boy - Jan 23, 2005 2:39:27 pm PST #9368 of 10000
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.

Yeah I've had closed tags unclosed by autoformatting. I will post when I can recreate.

One example I did three bigs and the close change to close bold so:

t big t big t big text to make large t /big t /big t /big

ended up as t big t /b t big t /b t big text to make large t /big t /big t /big t /b

to make sure I'm doing it right I will try this example, then delete

Text to make large

So this following should be small again.

Well everything is closed that should be closed. I could swear this once opened a tag I had closed properly, but maybe that was typo boy error. At any rate the /bs are not neccesary; but it does not seem to be a critical error.


§ ita § - Jan 23, 2005 2:49:20 pm PST #9369 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Gus is currently working on completely new tag-closing, DCJ, so this should be a thing of the past once it's tested and implemented.


Stephanie - Jan 24, 2005 1:54:21 pm PST #9370 of 10000
Trust my rage

So I just made a link over in Natter. When I click on it, it takes my current window to that new site. Sometimes i click on a link here and it opens a new window, which I like. How do I make it open a new window?


DXMachina - Jan 24, 2005 2:00:25 pm PST #9371 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

You need to add the parameter 'target="_blank"' to the link tag, i.e.,

<a href="http://www.buffistas.org" target="_blank">buffistas.org</a>

would look like this, buffistas.org , and open a new window.


Stephanie - Jan 24, 2005 2:02:27 pm PST #9372 of 10000
Trust my rage

Thanks, DX. I'll save that for future use.