Discussion -- May 2011 Challenge

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Re: DISCUSSION -- The 75 Word Challenge May 2011

I have no idea what the problem is. Maybe it's something to do with your browser? I've tried all of the fonts on the menu, and I can use them all.

In fact, I can even use some that aren't on the menu, like this one and this one.

Of course, I have no way of knowing whether they show up for you.
 
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Is this error bad? It keeps coming up when I try to get into the aspiring writers section:


Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '>' in /home/sffchron/public_html/forum/forumdisplay.php on line 1055
 
Re: DISCUSSION -- The 75 Word Challenge May 2011

It comes up when you try to get to any forum. Only the bottom layer (Science Fiction Fantasy Chronicles: forums ) and the top (individual posts) are functioning. I have no idea how bad it is, but it's cross browser, and widely distributed.
 
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And it has gone away, so we can get down to serious posting again.
 
Re: DISCUSSION -- The 75 Word Challenge May 2011

On the other hand....

Teresa Edgerton said:
In fact, I can even use some that aren't on the menu, like this one and this one.

Of course, I have no way of knowing whether they show up for you.
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They don't: I can see only text in Verdana in your post.

They don't: I can see only text in Verdana in your post.

Does the second version of that sentence appear in Blackadder ITC (the font in which it was written in Word)? (By the way, I typed "a in your post" in the Chrons editing window.)
 
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No idea what the font is, Ursa, but I can see a very curly second version, definitely not Verdana. Oddly, both Teresa's "like this one" and "this one" look identical to me, but they're not Verdana -- and they're not reproduced in the same font in your quote (and again, they're not Verdana there, either!).

Confusion reigns!
 
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When I quote my post, the Chrons software doesn't recognise the font (other than knowing it isn't one of the ones it supports). However, when I quote Teresa's post, it thinks every character is in Verdana.

Confusion indeed.

(Or perhaps not.... I used a font from Word, which I expect offers fonts provided by Windows (Vista, in my case), in which case you will be able to see it if your Windows has access to that font. It may be that Teresa used fonts from another source, ones which my set up doesn't support, but perhaps yours does. In this case, my system might have substituted a similar font for those and chose Verdana, the font used for the rest of the text.)

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Well, that's odd. I'm tinkering about on a laptop different to the one I usually use and the font Ursa used (Blackadder? Awesome!) looks different to how it did when I was on my other laptop. Much more curly. Contrary machines.
 
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I think it's to do with what fonts are installed on your PC. I had this trouble when I first built my website, many moons ago. I put all these fancy fonts on it thinking it looked fantastic. When I viewed it from a PC without those fancy fonts, it looked rubbish.

I can't see Ursa's fancy font here and I think it's because I don't have that one on my laptop.

Simple. I think.
 
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I agree with Mouse. I have just about every font available installed under the sun installed, as well as language pack, so I rarely have trouble seeing fonts. Yet I have had people complain before on other boards and in IRC chats that when I use or cut and pasted something, especially if its in a language their machine does not have installed, it either defaults to whatever is standard or little boxes.
 
Re: DISCUSSION -- The 75 Word Challenge May 2011

No, Ursa, yours just looks like a bigger Verdana to me.

Although everything on the formatting palette shows up for me, even though some of them aren't fonts installed on my computer.
 
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Teresa's all look the same to me, and Ursa's second one is bigger but the same font, which I assume is Verdana. I'm not very good with the ones that are all very similar to each other.

I figured it must be about the fonts on your computer, but I thought I had some of those that it won't let me have. Maybe not. Now, I haven't tried posting my stories (or playing with fonts in posts) from work, where I have hundreds of fonts -- but I wouldn't be able to see it at home anyway.
 
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Teresa Edgerton said:
No, Ursa, yours just looks like a bigger Verdana to me.
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TheDustyZebra said:
...and Ursa's second one is bigger but the same font....
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Looking bigger would make sense: the original font is quite small so I had to increase the size to make it legible (at least for those whose machines allow them to see the font as it's supposed to be seen).


Do people have trouble with accents? For instance, in my 300-word story - sorry to veer off-thread - I use characters that are part of the Latin-2 set. Yes, I know that's terminology that only really applies to 8-bit characters, but I guess there must be machines out there that don't support larger character sets. I tend to forget about these machines when using non-English words and names, at least until I can no longer edit the text.
 
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I can see the accents in your story, Ursa. An ´and an upside down ˆ.

This is something we all need to keep in mind when formatting our stories, though, that others might not see them the way we planned for them to appear.
 
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I pasted in a very strange font. Shows up fine here ... looks like this here:

Chiller

...? it looks fontastic here
 
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Reiver33! Brilliant. Painful in all the right places. If I wasn't such a strong and manly man I would be bawling. Very nice. ;):cool::D
 
Re: DISCUSSION -- The 75 Word Challenge May 2011

It's been a very stressful month, and with a busy weekend ahead I was beginning to wonder whether this would be the first month where I didn't submit a story. I've had ideas for the genre and ideas for the theme, but putting them together ... that's been quite another matter. (Shaking fist at the bear.)

After several attempts at writing something I think I have a story that might do. Anyway, it fits the genre and theme. I'll see if I can tweak it in the next few days. Or come up with something better before the end of the week.
 
Re: DISCUSSION -- The 75 Word Challenge May 2011

Now come on, TE. We can't have one of our star founders fall out of the game, can we?


Believe me, TE. If I could come up with anything even remotely Urban, so can you. :)
 
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The Urban part isn't the difficulty. My main problem has been coming up with a plot. I have one now, but the question is whether it is any good.
 
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