Is there a way to format these comments with line feeds and indents, so it doesn’t end up like a big lump of text?
(TUNE: “Shooting Star”, Bad Company)
Ginny was a sane girl, didn’t give in to the Mad …Said she’d fix the Brain-O-Mat, give it ev’rything she had!Sergio was listening, couldn’t fathom, scratched his head …Ginny tried to slow it down, but the guy just shrugged and said,“Well, I guess …”
Artificial ECM, gonna flood with cytokines!Gotta tip my hat to them, and their clever mad designs!But the strange mechanics, Sergio can’t get at all!Hope nobody panics, but there’s zombies in the hall!“Well, I guess … well, I guess …”
[CHORUS:]Well, I guess that I will be shooting stuff!Well, I guess … I confess …I confess that I will be shooting stuff!Yes I will, althoughMy ammo’s low …What a mess!
Instructions will be found here: http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/Pibgorn/StyleGuide.html
But in the short term… if you run all the lines of your poem together (no line breaks as such) and insert the HTML line break code < p > (remove the spaces when you do it) in each place you want a line break to appear, it should come out the way you want.
“Just think of your job as ‘experimentally distributing low-mass molecular structures accelerated to sub-mach speeds within the constraints of Newtonian physics’. Granted, conducting actual experiments is normally the task of TAs and lab assistants, but admit it – it’s sometimes fun to get your hands dirty yourself."
So there actually is a way to produce blank lines between texts?Testing 1, 2, 3Oddly enough, it doesn’t look like the zombies are going after them, at least not yet.
Y’know, given the number of comment boards out there, and the number of people who post poems, essays and the like on them, isn’t it a bit weird that there isn’t some semi-standardized basic word-processing plug-in for such tasks? Nope, ya just gotta know HTML (which was, like Postscript, intended more as a language to be generated by other programs, not end users)… if the site allows it (Facebook, probably the biggest bull-board system out there, doesn’t allow any formatting at all). It’s as if the people running these systems never actually use them… or even bother looking at how their users are using the systems.
OK, I’m just pulling your leg there. I spent 26 years in the software business. I know the people who build these systems never bother to see how the customers are using them…
Ida No about 11 years ago
“And can you make me some coffee while you’re at it?”
Eddurd about 11 years ago
Is there a way to format these comments with line feeds and indents, so it doesn’t end up like a big lump of text?
(TUNE: “Shooting Star”, Bad Company)
Ginny was a sane girl, didn’t give in to the Mad …Said she’d fix the Brain-O-Mat, give it ev’rything she had!Sergio was listening, couldn’t fathom, scratched his head …Ginny tried to slow it down, but the guy just shrugged and said,“Well, I guess …”
Artificial ECM, gonna flood with cytokines!Gotta tip my hat to them, and their clever mad designs!But the strange mechanics, Sergio can’t get at all!Hope nobody panics, but there’s zombies in the hall!“Well, I guess … well, I guess …”
[CHORUS:]Well, I guess that I will be shooting stuff!Well, I guess … I confess …I confess that I will be shooting stuff!Yes I will, althoughMy ammo’s low …What a mess!
puddleglum1066 about 11 years ago
Instructions will be found here: http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/Pibgorn/StyleGuide.html
But in the short term… if you run all the lines of your poem together (no line breaks as such) and insert the HTML line break code < p > (remove the spaces when you do it) in each place you want a line break to appear, it should come out the way you want.
puddleglum1066 about 11 years ago
Oh, and if you want a blank line (between stanzas or paragraphs), put the separator on its own line by itself.
puddleglum1066 about 11 years ago
Y’know, I thought having to effectively intersperse a text-formatting program in your text went out with, oh, troff…
Ida No about 11 years ago
Well, there are various ways to format text. <br> can be used to add blank lines. will add blank spaces.My list gets updated more often.
Ida No about 11 years ago
“Just think of your job as ‘experimentally distributing low-mass molecular structures accelerated to sub-mach speeds within the constraints of Newtonian physics’. Granted, conducting actual experiments is normally the task of TAs and lab assistants, but admit it – it’s sometimes fun to get your hands dirty yourself."
Darwinskeeper about 11 years ago
So there actually is a way to produce blank lines between texts?Testing 1, 2, 3Oddly enough, it doesn’t look like the zombies are going after them, at least not yet.
puddleglum1066 about 11 years ago
Y’know, given the number of comment boards out there, and the number of people who post poems, essays and the like on them, isn’t it a bit weird that there isn’t some semi-standardized basic word-processing plug-in for such tasks? Nope, ya just gotta know HTML (which was, like Postscript, intended more as a language to be generated by other programs, not end users)… if the site allows it (Facebook, probably the biggest bull-board system out there, doesn’t allow any formatting at all). It’s as if the people running these systems never actually use them… or even bother looking at how their users are using the systems.
OK, I’m just pulling your leg there. I spent 26 years in the software business. I know the people who build these systems never bother to see how the customers are using them…
Eddurd about 11 years ago
Testing formatting …
Should be a blank line aboveShould be another blank lineItalicsbold Indent by a space Indent by an em-space
Eddurd about 11 years ago
Whaddaya know?! Just like the regular SH comments! Proper filkmatting returns tomorrow.