Archive for September 23rd, 2005

Another of Joel’s Poems

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

[Joel],

I just looked at your “It’s Only A Game” poem. Short and sweet, ‘eh? It seemed compact and nicely descriptive. However I had trouble reading it well because it appears that either the original formatting was lost or you left out the punctuation except for a final period. Perhaps you omitted the punctuation for effect. But its absence does make for distracted reading, and can therefore, obscure your message from your readers. You might want to look at it and make adjustments accordingly.

I’ve attached the copy you sent originally so you can verify that this was in fact, how you formatted it before sending to me.

 

Later,
Tom Hesley

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Double Spaces

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Dear [Mentat],

I figured out where the double spaces came from in that “Can We Do Better…” message I sent you yesterday morning. When I reformatted the text, I had to put hard line breaks into the previously included text, to get it to wrap without lots of very long and very short lines appearing. The hard breaks however, your reader translates as paragraph breaks and displays these as additional blank lines mixed in with the text. The formatting problem happened in the first place because of the “> “ prefixes I had enabled my reader to prepend to each line of included text when I did replies. So I set Outlook not to use prefixes, and not to use indents in such messages. That way, the original (and presumably well-formatted look) of included messages should be preserved. I can resend yesterday’s mail without the hard breaks if it bothers you as is. Let me know

Later,
Tom

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