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Martin Harper Started conversation Apr 26, 2001
Just a few nitpicks...
> "-=:Status:=-"
Ok, so that's odd... 
> "the flow of Porridge- despite it being a rather vague idea."
Space betweem 'e' and '-'.
> info diagram
This needs the markup changing: you've lost the line breaks, and in NS6 it destroys everything below it, and is variable width. Try lalala.
> "Send reinforcements, we?re going 2 advance!"
Ack! The spelling errors were deliberate! The point was that introducing a few random errors didn't change the meaning of the phrase... and by correcting the spelling errors you've made it make no sense!
> footnotes
I get weird black rectangles in the hover text for the footnotes: is this just me?
Thanks for your help... 
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The God Pigeon Posted Apr 30, 2001
Sorry about that, I was just wondering about that Status thing too. I'll pass the notes on to Towers, unless they got them already.
Sorry again,
Dirk
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Martin Harper Posted May 21, 2001
Most fixed, "Send reinforcements, we?re going 2 advance!" is still broken: it should be "Semd reginforsmenzs, we?re goig 2 adwance!"
{or something - but that'll do}
And the information diagram (and the autowrap) is still completely screwed here in NS6...
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Dirk Gently(ACE)(Guru)(This is my school login)(WE WILL ALL MISS YOU DOUGLAS ADAMS) Posted May 30, 2001
Towers is fixing it I believe.
Sorry again,
Dirk
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Martin Harper Posted Jun 6, 2001
and still needs more errors in the middle case of "send reinforcements"
But I'll shut up now
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Ashley Posted Jun 13, 2001
Lucinda
As usual, let me know what needs changing - I'm looking at this now.
Ashley
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Martin Harper Posted Jun 13, 2001
Well - look at it in NS6.01: the word wrap is screwed to heck and back. And the ascii text isn't in a fixed width font. One suggestion is to use as well as - as I understand it, only insists that spaces and line breaks be preserved as written: it says nothing about being fixed width.
IE:
{diagram here}
I don't know whether that will fix the word wrap thing. This word wrap bug is starting to mildly irritate - and I'm reasonably sure it's h2g2's fault, since I can't reproduce it on my own webpages. It doesn't happen in IE5.5, but I'm told it happens in, for example, Konqueror and some other unix browsers...
The other thing is that the line entitled: "Send reinforcements, we?re going 2 advance!" should read:
Semd reingorcememtz, were goink 2 advans!
That's all - thanks!
MyRedDice - not at all fussy...
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Ashley Posted Jun 13, 2001
And now?
That whooshing sound is anything vaguely techie going right over my head... 
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- 3: Martin Harper (Apr 30, 2001)
- 4: Martin Harper (May 21, 2001)
- 5: Dirk Gently(ACE)(Guru)(This is my school login)(WE WILL ALL MISS YOU DOUGLAS ADAMS) (May 30, 2001)
- 6: Martin Harper (Jun 6, 2001)
- 7: Martin Harper (Jun 6, 2001)
- 8: Ashley (Jun 13, 2001)
- 9: Martin Harper (Jun 13, 2001)
- 10: Ashley (Jun 13, 2001)
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