1 Topic by janzenjan (edited by janzenjan 2007-04-16 20:39:04)

  • From: Tofino
  • Registered: 2007-04-07

Topic: tech question

Don't know if this is the right place to talk about this, but when I compose a message, get it all layed out nicely, when I post it, it is not necessarily layed out the same. How can I do it properly? This message for instance: as I'm setting it ip, it's all together as in a poem or loose paragraph.  In the preview it's scattered around, and in the posted message...?  Even better  than I laid it out! I can't win and I can't lose! (glad I'm non-competitive)                           

                                                                                                         Wordwork

It’s way past my bedtime (too much coffee too late – I’ll spin my wheels and burn this candle at both ends),
pencil and eraser shrinking from the onslaught of thoughts, words, revisions.
Who knows what may come up if I keep flogging this horse, dying though it is?
There is always hope for a last minute reprieve.
Only destined for sleep, even now I can dream.

Reality is a slippery eel, and I am a drunken fisherman.
  • From: Denver
  • Registered: 2005-08-02

Re: tech question

JanZenJan,

Yaaarrrr Matey,

In this Zone, posts are Composed on MS Word Processor, then Pasted to the N R posting slot.

Also useful:

At the top of each page, YOU see Help which provides all the BB Code that can be applied.

Here, all those Codes and the various ‘Nested Tags’ are saved on a MS Word Processor page, kept on the ‘DeskTop’ for easy access.......

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  • From: Tofino
  • Registered: 2007-04-07

Re: tech question

Thanks SiriArk, I'll see how it goes. Also I'm seeing that my avatar isn't showing up. Any help, anybody?

Reality is a slippery eel, and I am a drunken fisherman.
  • montalk
  • montalk
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  • Registered: 2004-03-24

Re: tech question

Here I'll do a test message.

.                             .            x             
  .                    .                   x                  -  - -
    .              .                       x                  -  a -
      .         .                          x                  -  b -
        .     .                            x                   - - -
           -                               x                     |





Okay, that looked fine....  I just went into your post to see what's up... and looks like instead of RETURN for line-break you had a bunch of spaces. Those spaces misaligned everything. So that explains it... yeah just start a new line by hitting RETURN and it should work. I fixed it for you in your post. There's currently no "center" function, but I'll look for a plugin that will allow that.

Acquiring fringe knowledge is like digging for diamonds in a mine field.

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  • From: Tofino
  • Registered: 2007-04-07

Re: tech question

Thanks for the assist, Ill give it a try... in the meantime, I'm having difficulty installing an avatar: can't seem to shrink the image using the editing tools on this computer to 60 X 60 pixels without serious distortion. Is there another way I can send in an image? Sorry to be limping along like this, but I'm new to all this tech stuff, just crawlled out of the swamp recently, technologically speaking...

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During my life I have acquired …. things; bought, found, scrounged and salvaged, collected, stored and admired them: used, unused, rusting, dusty or clean.

My material wealth (meager to some, riches to others) clouds the issue: I will die with nothing. I am alive with nothing.

These things are not me; we share space but not life. Life is different, it is no thing.

Reality is a slippery eel, and I am a drunken fisherman.