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#7076 |
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the square one? maybe that was an early sign that the bat was already in control of the laptop? (i'm up to page 11 as i type!!!!)
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#7077 |
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No, the one after 'has flown in'. But I realise now it's one of the Windows Alt characters - 'charmap.exe' shows ☺☻☼ and a few other characters I'd forgotten about.
the character after "has flown in " is a square on my computer is it different on yours? |
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#7078 |
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what's a "windows alt character" ?
the character after "has flown in " is a square on my computer is it different on yours? Here's that bit as I see it: has flown in😱 If all you get is a square empty shape, that means you don't have the font to show the character correctly. So you've not got the same basic font set I have. But I can't see how people can use different font sets on DS - it's a default for the web site. For example: here's a pasted piece from a document I'm working on - [FONT="]The following is a chronology of the events [/FONT] In my Word document, that's in Calibri 11pt, but the DS message box has defaulted it to the site standard. If I change it to Algerian 11pt, this is what happens in the message - [FONT=Algerian]The following is a chronology of the events[/FONT]. Nothing. You can't change the default font for a message. So how the heck did that smiley happen? ![]() ![]() ![]() I had this problem last night with a post on the music forum. I quoted something that was in bold, and the [ quote ] bit was bolded in my post, showed onscreen, and split the quote into multiple blue boxes. When I altered it in the preview edit box, it just came back the same. I only sorted it by deleting the quotes entirely and putting them back in by hand. The above scribble is why it's rubbish putting together a post in Word first and pasting it in. You get millions of stupid bracketed code things scattered through the post which have to be cut out ![]() Windows Alt characters are the ancient mystical way to access characters that aren't on the keyboard - umlaut characters, Old English, fractions, scientific, Arabic etc. If you have a numeric keypad you can hold down the Alt key and type a 3-figure number which corresponds to a character, and it goes into your document. See http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codealt.html The easiest way to do those though are by using the Windows system programme 'charmap.exe' from your Windows 'run program' option on the start menu. Brings up a little box with all the available characters and you can cut and paste them. Like this: ᾫ ὤ Ố ᵺ ٸ That smiley is going to drive me bloody mad, I know it! ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm getting a headache ![]() ![]() BTW- that smiley is not an emoticon - I've deliberately put 10 smileys in. If it was one, the message would have been rejected for too many smileys. |
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#7079 |
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i still see a square!!! i am using windows 8 (much to my shame) and *goes to look* have 243 fonts.... Word 10 so is the windows alt different to the character map then? i use character map a lot to get © ° and various accents for french...... frappé on here they like the "[quote]" in upper case for it to work ie Quote:
lets hope this works or i'll look stupid
if i press alt and numbers on my keyboard i get nothing except a musical note playing ![]() i guess that what comes from being my own planetary system ![]() ps calibri is a nice clean font |
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#7080 |
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what is it about old men that they can't resist a blow job joke if you ask about plums????
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#7081 |
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what is it about old men that they can't resist a blow job joke if you ask about plums????
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#7082 |
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Blow me!
![]() i wanted to use the ![]() but i feel that's just asking for trouble.... |
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#7083 |
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*bangs head on table*
i wanted to use the ![]() but i feel that's just asking for trouble.... and ye shall find!
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You asked for it!
and ye shall find! |
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Well, I can get past 10.
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Fing?
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a bright young fing?
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A frazzled fogeyish fing.
More to the point, why are you harassing old men about their plumming?
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A frazzled fogeyish fing.
More to the point, why are you harassing old men about their plumming? ![]()
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i got given some plums (fruit) not having ever cooked with them i posted on facebook if anyone had any ideas what i could do with them.....i didn't get many recipes as replies....
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Just as well you did not solicit recipes for meat and two veg!
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In a plum sauce?
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#7095 |
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mais oui.....oooo could make plum sauce and get some pork or duck!!! thanks Fink!!!
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#7096 |
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i still see a square!!!
i am using windows 8 (much to my shame) and *goes to look* have 243 fonts.... Word 10 Quote:
so is the windows alt different to the character map then?
No - it accesses the same characters.Sorry, I must have misread and thought you didn't know charmap. ![]() Quote:
on here they like the "[ quote ]" in upper case for it to work
I don't think it makes a difference. I never use it - but then I don't use the quote button, I always type it.Quote:
If i press alt and numbers on my keyboard i get nothing except a musical note playing Not the steam-powered Yamaha, the computer
Mind you, looks impressive rising through the living room carpet. Pity about having to move all the furniture back from the heap around the walls every time. ![]() Quote:
ps calibri is a nice clean font
Love it - it stays neat even when at small resolution, and doesn't thicken up much when bolded.ps- Windows 8? ![]() ![]() Banished.
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this is an experiment: Quote:
will this work
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or will this work
you're right all this time i've been going to the effort of caps locking
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#7098 |
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Plump for it!
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#7099 |
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did you get all your work finished on your birthday?
Finished Gaudy Night? |
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Eventually! Had to transcribe 2,000 words and then mould it into some sort of shape today.
Finished Gaudy Night? ....not quite i've been rationing myself because i'm so near the end and i don't want it to finish!!!!
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