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Post by Dalton on Jul 23, 2003 13:34:18 GMT -5
CYBERHUG!!!!
I'm not worried about it Nan. I just hope that if anyone ever attacks me the way you thought I had attacked Patti, I only hope I can expect the same level of brotherhood and support that Patti got.
DAVE
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Post by Dalton on Jul 23, 2003 13:35:08 GMT -5
Watergal, you did it right. The marks of punctuation in question are ONLY periods and commas. And they always go inside available end quotation marks. Other marks--question marks, semicolons, colons, dashes, whatever--go inside or outside depending on whether they belong to the quoted material or to the sentence as a whole.
And as to your bilingual keyboard, maybe you'd like to use the shortcut that I've been using: I make one double set of the less-than, greater-than symbols (also known, by me, as the arrow keys) with a single space between them, then block and cut them (right click on blocked item). Then I can paste them in (Control v) and insert the appropriate code (b, or i, or /b or /i, or whatever) inside the arrow keys. At that point, I into the space between the completed codes whatever I want to have coded.
That saves keying the codes over and over, and also prevents the accident of having a start code and forgetting the stop code, that otherwise occasionally happens. You can paste repeatedly, as long as that set of arrow codes is what's on the clipboard.
Nan
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Post by Dalton on Jul 23, 2003 13:35:38 GMT -5
You have my promise. Next time, if it's really a giant and not a windmill, I will demolish it utterly.
Nan
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Post by Dalton on Jul 23, 2003 13:36:11 GMT -5
I will demolish them...and you will help. And so will all the S'cubies. The one gain in this fiasco is that we had a trial run against what I fully expect to eventually happen: that we're invaded by a hostile poster whom we have no way to keep out. Now we know what we all intend to do about it, if/when it happens.
No quarter. No mercy. No surrender.
Nan
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Post by Dalton on Jul 23, 2003 13:36:49 GMT -5
Nan,
Glad you're here. Thanks for the rec on Exquisite Corpse by d.irge on allaboutspike. Fantastic writing, has the characters down pat. HATE HATE HATE that it is WIP. GRRRRRRR ARGHHH!!!!!!
Hey, is there some way to superimpose characters? Say, if I wanted to say "not equal" by typing = and / and somehow superimposing them?
Sue
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Post by Dalton on Jul 23, 2003 13:37:20 GMT -5
Stick a fork in me. I'm done. You got me with that one. Just a brilliant little story. Thank you.
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Post by Dalton on Jul 23, 2003 13:38:12 GMT -5
The unequal sign would become a graphic--you'd have to cut and paste it from some other source--and it would have to be handled like inserting a picture. Emoticons are available that way, and can be inserted into posts.
The unequal sign DOES exist among the various character sets available in the "insert symbol" choices in Word, and it could be posted to the website with other nonstandard characters we'd like to use sometime, then inserted as a graphic/picture in a post. That's probably more elaborate a procedure than anyone would care to take up, but it's certainly possible and we could do it if we wanted to. But simply superimposing one keyboard character over another isn't possible, to the best of my knowledge. If Vlad (or anyone) has a different approach, I'd be glad to hear it. There is nearly always more than one way to skin the proverbial cat (apologetically petting Ned, one of my cats, as I type).
Nan
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Post by Dalton on Jul 23, 2003 13:39:04 GMT -5
//(Nan! I've forgotten if that period goes inside the quotation marks! Is it the punctuation always goes inside the quotation marks and with parentheses it depends on the context of the sentence? If it is, then I've got it. If it is the other way around, I haven't gotten it yet.)//
I'm not Nan, but I can answer that. Commas and periods go inside the quote marks except when the quote marks are identifying a specific term, i.e., one word that is used out of context or may be unfamiliar to the reader. If it's quoted material (John said, "blah blah blah"), the punctuation goes inside the quotation marks.
In the case of question marks and exclamation points, the punctuation goes inside if it has to do with the quoted material itself (if the quoted material is a question, then the question mark goes inside), but outside if it has to do with the whole sentence (if the sentence itself is a question about the quoted material, then the question mark goes outside).
Some examples:
John said, "Who's that girl?"
Did John really say, "God, you're ugly"?
David Crenshaw
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Post by Dalton on Jul 23, 2003 13:39:49 GMT -5
That's all I needed. Chapter 1 of the new story will be ready very soon. I just needed that cleared up before I could finish it. Thanks, Laura.
Rob Sorenson
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Post by Dalton on Jul 23, 2003 13:40:43 GMT -5
I went into Word, inserted the unequal sign from the "normal" character set, then blocked and cut it. Let's see if I can paste it from the clipboard:
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It's showing on the screen for me! Let's see if it still shows up when I upload this post.
If it does, WHEE! IT WORKED! Next time, I think I'd make it bigger--about 16 point: this is 12 point, and it's conspicuously smaller than the other characters.
Nan
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Post by Dalton on Jul 29, 2003 18:50:14 GMT -5
Thanks for the welcome,& yes I have 3 parrots,2horses,dog & cat.
Oh BTW I am a huge spikahoic & JM fan!!!Forgot to mention that fact & assume that was assumed. Well I'm going to check @ all the essays & fanfiction on the board.Already read some by Spring & loved them.I can see I will be very busy.
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Post by Dalton on Jul 29, 2003 18:51:01 GMT -5
Here are some things in the normal character set I found I could block and copy. I'm gonna go look for a set of emoticons that could likewise be copied and pasted. When I find one, I will tell you how to get them for yourselves.
≠ ☺ ● §
The only limit is what, in Word, you can find to block, copy, and then paste
Nan Dibble
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Post by Dalton on Jul 29, 2003 18:51:37 GMT -5
Go to this website: www.sofrayt.com/main/They have a free demo version of emoticons you can insert into your posts. Some are animated, some are not. They have demo written on them (who cares) and some of them look like this: [Automated by GetSmile] [Automated by GetSmile] All I see is coded text at the moment, but when I upload it, it ought to turn into the assorted emoticons I've just clicked on. Once you've downloaded and installed it, you need to go to Options and tell it that the Message Board Type is HTML (because ScoopMe is). Then GO TO IT! Nan
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Post by Dalton on Jul 29, 2003 18:52:31 GMT -5
Sorry Josh... I was/am outta town and didn't have access to the site for several days.
Hmmm, as with many of the others here I would prefer a good book to the TV. That being said, I've become a slave to my shows the past few years.
What I Watch: Buffy, Angel, Alias, Dawson's Creek, Gilmore Girls, Smallville, Boomtown, The Simpsons, Trading Spaces, While You Were Out, (Pretty much any show on TLC & Several on DIY)
What I Would Still Be Watching: Xena: WP, Hercules, Original ST & Oddly enough ST: DSN, Felicity, X-Files, Ally McBeal... too many more to even mention but those few are still missed.
And, Finally, What I Would Watch If I Didn't Work: General Hospital, One Life to Live, All My Children, & Guilding Light
PS - Hey, Yeah!, I have an Edit button on my mother's new computer.
Edited By Rae Hanson at 4/19/2003 2:10:00 PM.
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Post by Dalton on Jul 29, 2003 18:53:45 GMT -5
(Welcome David!) I'm still trying to catch up on all the posts from the past few days but just wanted to chime in quickly to say, "Welcome David!"
Rae Hanson
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