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Gerardryan
| | Posted on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 9:58 am: |     |
When I post the agendas of TC meetings, I do it by opening up a Word document, copying the entire agenda to the clipboard, then pasting it into the "Add a Message" window.
It *looks* fine when i add the message and paste, but when I look at it in the preview I see some odd characters:
RESOLUTION ö Participation of Public
What ought to be a dash between the words RESOLUTION and Participation looks like an o with an umlaut on the posting, even though it looks fine in the text window.
Is this a funny mac vs windows font issue? |
Dave
| | Posted on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 10:37 am: | |
It is a MS Word issue. Something in the character sets. I think it's mostly the "M-dash" and a few other characters. |
Jgberkeley
| | Posted on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 10:49 am: | |
Mr. Ryan,
I do this often and have the same problem. While I have not found the solution to the problem, I have a work around.
I copy from Word, then paste to the "Add a Message" box on MOL. I then click "Preview/Post Message".
I scan the Preview and slide down the window to the "Revise your Message" box and delete and replace the character that went wacky.
Below that box is the "Preview/Post Message" button which updates the Preview.
I scan it again quickly, then click "Post this Message"
It takes a bit longer, but I find that it works until I have the time to play around for the "Real" fix. |
Gerardryan
| | Posted on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 11:01 am: | |
Dave: it's em-dashes. Hmm... maybe I could make a macro to go in and change from em-dashes to regular dashes? Or maybe a font change...
JG: I had been using that workaround, but there are an awful lot of dashes and quotes in these things. I'm seeking the "real fix" :-)
Jerry Ryan |
Jgberkeley
| | Posted on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 11:50 am: | |
This is a test of ãthe character issueä when using cut from Word and ÎPasteâ to MOL!
test of dash following a word ö
-test of a dash starting a line
- test of dash, space starting a line
test of dash-between a word
test of space dash ö space then word
test of _underscore
test of +Plus
test of slash/between words
test of {brackets}, [boxed brackets], (parens)
test of ! @ # $ % ^ & *
What version of Word are you using? I'm on Word 2000. |
Jgberkeley
| | Posted on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 11:58 am: | |
Test of direct insert of characters from Word.
שׂהּשּ♫Ω |
Jgberkeley
| | Posted on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 12:07 pm: | |
Looks like another quick fix would be to remove the spaces from before and after the dash.
As in:
RESOLUTION-Participation of Public
SECOND-Roll Call
b. Board of Adjustment-vacancies Alt. #1 and Alt. #2
Which while this is not the 'Real' fix it seems to work and it does not look that bad. |
Joancrystal
| | Posted on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 12:42 pm: | |
Does the same problem occur if you do the document in Word Perfect (Corel)? |
Enigmabomb
| | Posted on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 4:10 pm: | |
Here is my hack for this:
Use Notepad, or wordpad if you want. They use extremely standard font sets. Macros won't fly here pardner, most virus software will zap them dead. I think they are evil. Also, You might try typing stuff within the add message box? I don't know, it sounds logical enough, and get this, HTML FORMATTING! W00t!
-enigmabomb-
"Macro Processing, It's the next big hoax from intel" |
Lseltzer
| | Posted on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 5:17 pm: | |
I believe the key here is the Tools-AutoCorrect dialog box, specifically the "AutoFormat as you type" page. There is a "Hyphens with dash" or something similar option.
This is a - normal hyphen
This is a normal double -- hyphen
This (I think) is an autoformatted ö hyphen
This is an autoformatted double ö hyphen |
Nursie
| | Posted on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 5:29 pm: | |
Enigmabomb:
I am posting this here because I am sure you will show up. You seem to be a present day success story for CHS which gets so much flack here on MOL. You seem mature,intellegent with interesting views. I think you should do a "profile" of yourself on that thread. I don't think any teens have done it yet. Thread drift warning! Does anyone else agree? |
Enigmabomb
| | Posted on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 5:37 pm: | |
Thanks! I try to conduct myself with ethics, ethics which seem to closely resemble hacker ethics. I hadn't intended on making a profile. But, I will make one now. I like Columbia, It's hard to find like minded people there though. A lot of people are into things that I find morally reprhensible (things that law does not find acceptable either). I attribute none of anything to Maplewood Middle School.
-enigmabomb- |
Enigmabomb
| | Posted on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 5:58 pm: | |
Ok, Profile is made. Warning, What you may read will shock you, scare you, and may even enlighten you to the secret world that is teenagers. You have been warned.
-enigmabomb- |
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