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by Innkeeper » Wed Feb 19, 2025 5:04 am
jayphailey wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 12:33 am
Oh! Okay.
I can see that. I got taught about the CR at the end of the paragraph during my first pass through the BBS World in the early 1990s.
It turns out a big wall of unbroken text is hard to read! So someone suggesyted it as a way to make things "Bite sized" and I have been doing so ever since.
Except the few times I tried to send out a manuscript to magazines.
I had to take all the CRs out! They aachieve the same effect by double spacing the lines
The lie to that is in any book or magazine you read. Minimal white space, paragraphs separated by tabs. Publication want submissions double spaced for easier editing. They do not publish that way.
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by jayphailey » Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:55 am
Yeah, published books cant spend a lot of paper on white space.
For on screen stories, we don't pay by the pixel
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by Innkeeper » Wed Feb 19, 2025 4:39 pm
jayphailey wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:55 am
Yeah, published books cant spend a lot of paper on white space.
For on screen stories, we don't pay by the pixel
However I do not find the format difficult to read. My Archology Magazine is on the couch and it is a pleasant time spent and I learn things. Not a difficult slog due to formatting. I do not agree with BBS World. Fact is I spent a good deal of time making HTML format like a book.
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by Innkeeper » Mon Apr 14, 2025 3:11 am
jayphailey wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 11:18 am
Okay this was from one of YOUR HTML files on the website.
It came through exactly as you formatted it.
I'd add a Carriage return at the end of each paragraph for readability - but I am not seeing the forum fuck up formatting.
The fuck up is it does not respect the tabs that make paragraphing apparent. I have to add the carriage returns. (gods is that a dated reference) So in a long story I am spending more time than I would like doing it.
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by Innkeeper » Mon Apr 14, 2025 3:13 am
And the HTML uses the nbsp artifact to force five spaces.
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by jayphailey » Thu May 01, 2025 4:38 am
Innkeeper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 14, 2025 3:13 am
And the HTML uses the nbsp artifact to force five spaces.
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Bleah!
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by Innkeeper » Thu May 01, 2025 3:13 pm
jayphailey wrote: ↑Thu May 01, 2025 4:38 am
Innkeeper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 14, 2025 3:13 am
And the HTML uses the nbsp artifact to force five spaces.
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Bleah!
I want book formatting. I want actual tabs, which HTML does not do so I use the non breaking space artifact.. I use tables to get the margins. And apparently my web formatting is very text to speech friendly.
Blame the Nightwolf.
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