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Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer  

A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.

Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych


DXMachina - Oct 10, 2003 10:37:10 am PDT #5455 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I wonder if thread titles and slugs go through the tag stripping function?

I'm guessing not.


Jon B. - Oct 10, 2003 10:54:09 am PDT #5456 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I just tried it on an old closed thread. Although it works, it looks ugly. Many browsers underline anything that's a link. The underline under a superscript shows up immediately under the character, which is in line with the minus sign to its right. It's difficult to explain, but I think it's really ugly and using ^2 is actually more pleasant to look at.


DXMachina - Oct 10, 2003 10:57:43 am PDT #5457 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Although it works, it looks ugly. Many browsers underline anything that's a link.

Didn't think of that. I turn off link underlining because it *is* ugly, so it never occurred to me.


Tom Scola - Oct 10, 2003 10:57:47 am PDT #5458 of 10005
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Can you use numeric entities? If so, then ² is superscript-2, and &#928 is pi.

Mmmm, pi.


billytea - Oct 10, 2003 11:04:14 am PDT #5459 of 10005
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Test:

Natter 17 = 4² - cos(p); This Could Be Mathier

The superscript works for me, though I find the resulting pi a little anaemic. Using the Symbol font (as above) gives a more attractive result, IMO.


Tom Scola - Oct 10, 2003 11:07:01 am PDT #5460 of 10005
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

The symbol doesn't show up on my computer.


tina f. - Oct 10, 2003 11:07:51 am PDT #5461 of 10005

I saw it before bt edited. And it looked kinda dirty. IJS.


billytea - Oct 10, 2003 11:08:15 am PDT #5462 of 10005
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

The symbol doesn't show up on my computer.

t blows raspberry at Tom's computer


Jon B. - Oct 10, 2003 11:10:55 am PDT #5463 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Let's try it as a link:

Natter 17 = 4² - cos(Π); Could This Be Mathier, Nilly?

t edit Ahh... that looks much better than when I used the t sup tag.


DXMachina - Oct 10, 2003 11:13:08 am PDT #5464 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Except the pi symbol looks like a staple to me.

The superscript looks fine.