Re: [h-cost] Chemise/shift/shirt

2006-07-16 Thread E House
The one I favor can be seen here: http://www.pleatwork.com/papers/shirthandout.doc (fig 5b) or here: http://www.pleatwork.com/papers/Pleatworkshirthandout.pdf (fig 5a) As a matter of fact, I'm working on one now! -E ___ h-costume mailing list

Re: [h-cost] final word RE: Update on Bjarne

2006-07-16 Thread Lavolta Press
otsisto wrote: Fran, 1. By the comments being made this thread was wrapping up. It's about time. Next time someone wants to do psychotherapy on h-costume, could they do it by private email? 2. There are several who know Bjarne and maybe felt that depression was a possibility. He never

Re: [h-cost] final word RE: Update on Bjarne

2006-07-16 Thread Lalah
Sorry, I picked up on this by accident. I was out of town when this started and couldn't read all that mail when I got home. Don't you people know about the DELETE button on your computer? If there is a subject you aren't interested in - delete it. I am not going to comment on the rest of

[h-cost] clarifying / final word RE: Update on Bjarne

2006-07-16 Thread otsisto
-Original Message- De: I would rather see support and care given just because of a possibility then no support and something terrible happens. Fran: Give me a break. We've moved from someone saying they're bored with their current projects, through everyone else claiming it's

[h-cost] The delete button...

2006-07-16 Thread Carol Kocian
Don't you people know about the DELETE button on your computer? If there is a subject you aren't interested in - delete it. I agree - this list covers diverse time periods, and there will be topics not of interest to everyone. I would like to ask (and I hope it's ok with the

Re: [h-cost] The delete button...

2006-07-16 Thread Lavolta Press
I would like to ask (and I hope it's ok with the management to do so!) that people consider whether their note is personal/private or not. We do have the ability to respond privately to a note, whether it's to offer a compliment or a concern. Brainstorming through a creative block is

Prefixes for headers? (was: Re: [h-cost] The delete button...)

2006-07-16 Thread Catherine Olanich Raymond
On Sunday 16 July 2006 6:27 pm, Lavolta Press wrote: [snip] I am on an extremely active list for translators from foreign languages, which has a very useful system. They require every subject line to be prefixed with one of a series of standard headers designated by the group's official

[h-cost] Re: Prefixes for headers?

2006-07-16 Thread Lavolta Press
Another prefix they use that might be useful on h-costume is JOBS: (under which, for h-costume, I'd suggesting including volunteer as well as paid opportunities). I would also suggest EVENTS: (annoucements for events and classes) and SUPP: (for supplies; tip-offs for JoAnn's sales, eBay

Re: Prefixes for headers? (was: Re: [h-cost] The delete button...)

2006-07-16 Thread Robin Netherton
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote: I think this is an excellent idea and second Fran's recommendation that we implement it on h-costume. I have seen this work extraordinarily well on exactly one list -- a list for copyeditors, who are, by definition, able to deal with

Re: Prefixes for headers? (was: Re: [h-cost] The delete button...)

2006-07-16 Thread Lavolta Press
I'm afraid I don't see such a system as easy to implement on h-cost, where we have a membership that's extremely diverse, representing people from many countries and of varying levels of ease at handling language and niggly bits of formatting. In fact many more h-costume members are native