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From: Adam Funk on 5 Mar 2010 07:17 On 2010-03-04, R H Draney wrote: > Adam Funk filted: >>Google groupers' FUs usually have a bunch of 0xA0 characters. > > And a "Show quoted text"/"Hide quoted text" skidmark....r Nice terminology! Did you come up with that, or have I missed a memo? -- I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it. Networked software, especially, requires frequent updates and maintenance, all of which gets in the way of doing routine work. (Stoll 1995)
From: Glenn Knickerbocker on 5 Mar 2010 17:53 On 03/03/2010 02:47 AM, Nick wrote: > structure of my post it's /wrong/. It's the /first/ space of a doublet > that should be non-breaking (so it remains at the end of the previous > line). Otherwise Google is telling people to break my sentences with a > space at the start. > Like this. Aha, now I understand why the ancient Netscape I still use for mail on this machine sometimes breaks sentences like that. I noticed that the newest Thunderbird has just the opposite problem: It treats the first space as nonbreaking, as you expect, but the nonbreaking space doesn't collapse into the right-hand margin, so when I type a double space that starts at the margin it moves the previous word onto a new line. >> > I still think it would be nice if mail and news tools left 8-bit data >> > unencoded when it didn't use any of the code points that differ > When I wrote it, of course, it didn't. Even when you quoted Peter's quote, it still didn't--but Gnus encoded it for you anyway. That's what I wish didn't happen. ¬R
From: R H Draney on 5 Mar 2010 18:00 Adam Funk filted: > >On 2010-03-04, R H Draney wrote: > >> Adam Funk filted: > >>>Google groupers' FUs usually have a bunch of 0xA0 characters. >> >> And a "Show quoted text"/"Hide quoted text" skidmark....r > >Nice terminology! Did you come up with that, or have I missed a memo? It just popped into my -- er -- head while I was typing....r -- "Oy! A cat made of lead cannot fly." - Mark Brader declaims a basic scientific principle
From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on 5 Mar 2010 08:25 > >>> >>> So according to the mathematician, any reference using a noun phrase >>> reifies the referent into a "group." >>> > In "I saw a brown dog in the park", the indefiniteness of the NP > generally implies that there is more than one brown dog in the > universe (or domain of discourse). > According to the mathematician, you saw a dog, at least one side of which was brown. The outside, of course.
From: Adam Funk on 6 Mar 2010 15:15
On 2010-03-05, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: >> In "I saw a brown dog in the park", the indefiniteness of the NP >> generally implies that there is more than one brown dog in the >> universe (or domain of discourse). >> > According to the mathematician, you saw a dog, at least one side of > which was brown. > > The outside, of course. ObARK "...too dark to read." -- Unix is a user-friendly operating system. It's just very choosy about its friends. |