Date stamp and Font display
[From Martin Taylor 2008.03.01.12.13]
[From Bill Powers (2008.03.01.0832
MST)]Martin Taylor 2008.03.01.09.47]
[From Bill Powers (2008)]
I’ll start with that – tell me when I’ve included enough information
for you to find useful. Next time I’ll add the month.I hope you are going to post more than one message per year – or per
month, come to that. But I wouldn’t object if you were to make your ID
labels in the form “[From Bill Powers (2008) a.1.1.2]” or
whatever unique vaue you might come up with.]Well, suggest a format and I’ll use it. The one I’ve been using is
[Name (yyyy.mm.dd.tttt zzz)]
That’s plenty to make it unique, which is really 90% of what I
use the ID stamp for. The other 10% is to allow me to go to the
correct archive or region of the archive (i.e. year or month).
My main concern isn’t with
searching anyway, but just with keeping attributions straight, and not
having to look all over the place to find the information needed to do
so.
Yes, I’d ignored the attribution point…Divide my percentages
above by two, and give 'attribution" 50%.
PS. I repeat the question of why you
write in blue rather than the more easily read black? By “you”
I don’t mean just Bill P, by the way.I don’t. When the text leaves my screen, it’s black, and when I
re-read it, it’s still black. What I see right here is black Courier
12-point or so text.
And I see black Monaco “normal” size, whatever
"normal means to Eudora. Though in this particular message, your
text is black. In most other recent ones, it has been blue. I’m set
not to take account of size and font, but to take account of colour
and attributes such as bold. I eliminated taking account of at size
and font after I got fed up with getting a raft of messages with
letters about half a millimeter tall.
The more I find out about the
programs we use, particularly Windows but also the applications that
have to use it, the bigger the mess looks and the more numerous the
loose ends become. Here’s one. When Delphi is used to create two
identical bitmaps and to save the contents of one into the other for
later comparison, Windows decides that Delphi really doesn’t want
another bitmap and just hands back a pointer to the first one. You
see, Delphi doesn’t “own” the bitmap and what it wants
doesn’t matter. So when you read a new frame into the first bitmap and
look at the saved bitmap, you find the saved one gone and the new one
in its place. Windows is a maze of self-inflicted complexities that
nobody will ever be able to map.
Yes. Whenever I use a Microsoft program (I have to use Word and
PowerPoint for my NATO stuff) I get frustrated about how Word knows
you really DON’T want HTTP to be all caps, or to have THIS picture on
THAT page.
You could move to Linux on your current machine, or get a Mac,
which would allow you to use more or less any operating system
including Windows. It wouldn’t solve the problem, but it might
mitigate it.
In Eudora, the following font, with
capitals a centimeter high, is called Courier Humungous.
Monaco “normal” to me.
And this is
“medium.”
Same.
This is “large” and what
I guess is 12-point.
Same.
It’s all black, though this isbold.
Yes, bold. I’m not sending bold back in the last sentence, but
I am after the last comma.
What do you see? Yours comes
through as black “medium” size. I’m sending “styled
text only.”
I’m sending styled and plain. Maybe I should set Eudora not to
notice colour in received mail.
Martin
