[Dixonary] Round 1625: Da woid

[Dodi Schultz]

First and most important: Our sympathies and a strong we're-with-you
message to our friends in the UK, with hopes (albeit little confidence)
that the death toll will not rise beyond the 37 that I've just heard
reported. Awful. Obscene.

But Dixonary goes gamely on, as always.

The word for Round 1625, barring multiple DQs (send them straightaway, if
any), is:

@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@
@ @
@ POUSSETTE @
@ @
@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@

Deadline for defs to arrive in my mailbox (schultz at compuserve) is
Saturday 9 July at 7 a.m. EDT.

P.S.: Does anyone actually see those decorative boxes around the words
anymore? Let me know, when you send your def. Just curious.

--Dodi

[Wayne Scott]

That would be a little pousse, n'est pas?




nad

and I see a bunch of equal signs and @ signs.

[leonardgoran]

--- In coryphaeus (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, Dodi Schultz <schultz@c...> wrote:

>P.S.: Does anyone actually see those decorative boxes around the words
anymore? Let me know, when you send your def. Just curious.<


Dodi, I don't see a box but this symbol: @@@... Def to follow in
private email. Regards, Len

[Chris Carson]

Dodi,

If I view with 'fixed' font it looks fine. Otherwise, the second, third and
fourth lines have compressed spaces that prevent the right edge of the box
being aligned.

Chris

[Guerri Stevens]

Dodi Schultz wrote:
> P.S.: Does anyone actually see those decorative boxes around the words
> anymore? Let me know, when you send your def. Just curious.

I see a box with alternating at signs (@) and equal signs (=) at the top
and bottom, at signs on the left and right, and the word in the middle.
I am using Thunderbird and have it set to use a fixed-width font for
plain text messages. I am getting messages as Email from the Coryphaeus
group.

I hopped over to TAPCIS.COM where I see a row of alternating at and
equal signs at the top, two at signs with a space between them in the
second row, an at sign, space, poussette, space, at sign in the third
row, 4th row same as 2nd, 5th same as top row. The font looks like Arial
or some other sans serif font. You could try omitting the extra spacing
around the word, shortening the top and bottom rows to match, and
leaving out the 2nd and 4th rows and we could let you know how it looks.
I suspect the proportional font might still ruin it, but maybe not by much.

Guerri

[Daniel B. Widdis]

Dodi Schultz wrote:

> P.S.: Does anyone actually see those decorative boxes around the words
> anymore? Let me know, when you send your def. Just curious.

Looking at the replies, it looks like most of us who are concerned about
text alignment get the plain HTML text with the intact box just as you
sent it.

A few clients use proportional fonts, but those users can "view source"
to get the correct alignment.

Users of tapcis.com see proportional font. If you were concerned about
the proportional spacing in your entire post, you could include the
and tags around the portion of your message where
fixed-width font is important. Personally, as a WebView user of the old
TAPCIS forum for years, I learned to live with the non-aligned woid
postings (and crowns). Alternately, forget about the box and just post
the woid on a single line where spacing is not important, such as:

*** THE WOID ***

That's what I typically do. Or did, last time I dealt, eons ago.

Dan

[Chris Carson]

I'll try 1 and 4 this time.

Chris