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Line feeds/paragraphs - 7/23/2009 10:03:51 PM

Termyn8or

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In send a quick note to this user, from their profile, I can't seem to get the paragraphs right. Or at least it seems so. It seems to do what we accuse people of doing, not using paragraphs. So then I try using more extra hits of the enter key and still, I am not sure this even works.

Tonight I saw a joke that was unparagraphed, and I fixed it. Of course this joke was imported from somewhere. Something either with a different platform or a cross platform platform that isn't quite perfect. Why is it so hard ?

I remember the problems with text documents going between Unix and DOS, there was a big problem with line feeds. It seems to me though, now that the internet is here and we did put a Man on the moon I think, this should be a relatively minor problem. Should it not ?

When you see &nbsp and stuff like that, it has to do with multi-platform, or a different platform. My question is why is it so hard to just translate it ?

I am not really bitching about this, in fact I expect that I might find a valid explainaition for this.

Or is it that there is a solution and they are just being obstinant about it ? Waiting for the others to comply. This almost sounds like the beta vs vhs thing years ago. In the end we pay. Somehow, it is always We The People who pay. We pay for everything.

I am not talking about linguistics here, like in that other thread. I am talking about people grabbing up a good joke and throwing it into this forum for example. They selected or whatever, copy and paste, OK. And it looks fine maybe on what they see, but then once posted all the line feeds are gone, thus a body of text that meets the eye like "The Glob".

I am not speaking to the owners of this site or any other, I have seen this problem many times on the web and off. Even converting documents between different word processors. Why is it so hard ? People who can write browsers, word processors and even OSes can't tackle this one little problem ?

Perhaps someone can give me a logical reason for this, but at the moment it simply doesn't make much sense.

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