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Lorianne_W
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 Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:27 am Post subject: Posting tricks and tips |
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Here is something everyone but me probably already knew about, but I'll post it just the same. This handy website will strip copy of annoying symbols (like > before every line you sometimes get when you copy something from an email)
Drac.com Stripper
http://www.draac.com/stripper.html
Post any other handy message board posting tips you might have here in this topic.
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Lorianne_W
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:28 am Post subject: |
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If you make a mistake the Subject Title of something you posted, or wish to change the title, you can edit it from your first post.
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MetaLark
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, Lorianne.
I'd been stripping out leading carats by copying to a Word document and using alt-select to highlight the leftmost columns to delete. This is quicker.
What I could really use is something to strip out spaces following leading carats, and also strip out carriage returns, to make the text flow naturally. (That programming might be a bit tricky though.) |
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Larry_Home
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| MetaLark wrote: | | What I could really use is something to strip out spaces following leading carats, and also strip out carriage returns, to make the text flow naturally. (That programming might be a bit tricky though.) |
Actually, it should be easy to strip out carriage returns; I'm surprised the Stripper site doesn't include that. I wrote a tiny routine to do exactly that using VBA (Microsoft Office visual basic language for scripts), years ago, and it was quite simple. The carriage return actually takes two characters, a return and a linefeed - goes all the way back to teletypes, which had to be told to drop a line and then do a return in two separate steps.
But I digress. Should be easy. Stripping out spaces within lines, however, is another issue. Very large number of possibilities to take into account. If you ALWAYS want a space taken out after a leading carat, then such a routine would also be easy: the routine would check for the carat, then if found look for the space, and remove both at once.
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MetaLark
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Frankly, I think it's annoying that these free email websites insert those carats. Why on earth do they do it? |
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Larry_Home
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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| MetaLark wrote: | | Frankly, I think it's annoying that these free email websites insert those carats. Why on earth do they do it? |
Back in the day, the carat lines distinguished replied-to material from the reply. Normally, though, this is an option and can be turned off.
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