Re[2]: Formatting cookies

[David Denton]

Hello Lars,

Friday, April 5, 2002, 9:03:54 AM, you wrote:

LG> Let's see if a small example can clarify this. I put one of my cookie
LG> lines below, exactly the way it appears in the cookie file (with the
LG> \n's literally!)

Oh, I see! This *does* clarify things. A bit more work to prepare the
cookie file than I thought, but I should be able to insert \n's every
x columns with my text editor.

Many thanks.

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Re: Formatting cookies

[Lars Geiger]

Hi David,
On Friday, April 5, 2002 at 08:51:22 [GMT -0500], you wrote:

DD> I am a little slow here, sorry. This means that if you use "\n"
DD> inserted manually at the appropriate column and line of the cookie
DD> file to create a separate attribution line, that you cannot use the
DD> %WRAPPED macro? Which means that the main part of the cookie must be
DD> manually formatted after it is inserted. Is that what you are
DD> saying?

You *can* always use the %WRAPPED macro. But any newline inserted
manually into your cookie lines will be removed by this macro. Cookies
are always single lines, you can either format them manually (that's
what I did) or let TB rewrap it, losing any manual formatting.

Let's see if a small example can clarify this. I put one of my cookie
lines below, exactly the way it appears in the cookie file (with the
\n's literally!)


Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and\nhave everyone 
else mirror it.\n- Linus Torvalds


When this cookie is inserted into a message, it results in this text:

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and
have everyone else mirror it.
- Linus Torvalds

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Re[2]: Formatting cookies

[David Denton]

Hello Lars,

Friday, April 5, 2002, 1:32:08 AM, you wrote:

LG> Unfortunately, this is not possible with the %WRAPPED macro.
LG> You'll have to insert \n manually into your cookies. Then you can
LG> use something like, "... grave.\n -- CONRAD ...". If you try to
LG> combine \n and the %WRAPPED macro, the cookie is wrapped at the \n
LG> and afterwards is rewrapped by the macro, thus destroying your
LG> manual line break.

I am a little slow here, sorry. This means that if you use "\n"
inserted manually at the appropriate column and line of the cookie
file to create a separate attribution line, that you cannot use the
%WRAPPED macro? Which means that the main part of the cookie must be
manually formatted after it is inserted. Is that what you are saying?

This could involve adding a blank line to separate the paragraphs,
formatting the main part of the cookie to wrap the text using 
and then bringing the two paragraphs together.

This sounds complicated. I see many multi-line cookies followed
directly by an attribution line on TBUD. Is this how they are done?

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Re: Formatting cookies

[Lars Geiger]

Hi David,
On Friday, April 5, 2002 at 18:04:53 [GMT -0500], you wrote:

DD> I am able to wrap text in a cookie (using %WRAPPED="%COOKIE='c:
DD> etc.) but how do you wrap the main text and then have the
DD> attribution on the following line and indented, as in the text,
DD> below.

Unfortunately, this is not possible with the %WRAPPED macro. You'll have
to insert \n manually into your cookies. Then you can use something
like, "... grave.\n -- CONRAD ...". If you try to combine \n and
the %WRAPPED macro, the cookie is wrapped at the \n and afterwards is
rewrapped by the macro, thus destroying your manual line break.

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Formatting cookies

[David Denton]

Hello TB! users,

I am able to wrap text in a cookie (using %WRAPPED="%COOKIE='c: etc.)
but how do you wrap the main text and then have the attribution on the
following line and indented, as in the text, below.

A puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odours
of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out the still night—the first
sigh of the East on my face. That I can never forget. It was
impalpable and enslaving, like a charm, like a whispered promise of
mysterious delight The mysterious East faced me, perfumed like a
flower, silent like death, dark like a grave.
 -- CONRAD, Joseph (Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowki) (1857-1924)

I have tried using \n preceding the attribution part, but this does
not seem to work.

Thanks in advance for your help.
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