Dear Sivakatirswami,
they would all understand the correct unity of form and
function
reminds me of The Fire and The Sun section of Plato's
Republic; even if not to mention the central goal of
Hinduism.
Most of us, however, are still sufficiently blinded by the
light of Runtime Revolution to
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Dear Sivakatirswami,
[snip]
I would like to delude myself that, although a mole,
shovelling away in the dark, I have at least one eye
open to look at higher things. Where you and I differ,
perhaps, is that, at present, higher things means
becoming a highly competent
Judy Perry wrote:
For the
life of me it just isn't clear why higher ed places such emphasis on where
to put commas, dates, and other things over what really ought to be more
important, namely, CONTENT.
Another argument I had at SIU Carbondale was why the English department
adhered to the
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Back to my Applescript in a Nutshell (which is an endlessly tedious
book):
page 430:
A paragraph object is a chunk of text that is terminated by a new line or paragraph
character.
Can anybody tell me what a 'paragraph character would be?
In Rev, as I mentioned,
J. Landman Gay wrote:
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Back to my Applescript in a Nutshell (which is an endlessly tedious
book):
page 430:
A paragraph object is a chunk of text that is terminated by a new
line or paragraph character.
Can anybody tell me what a 'paragraph character would be?
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
JLG wrote:
I'm not sure what identifying means in this case, nor what identifies
one method as British and the other as American. All the American books
I've seen have indented paragraphs with no space between.
You know, this whole business about indenting versus blank lines, arrogant
higher ed educators and the like takes me back a few years when I was
finishing my second master's degree and was positively hounded over similar
issues.
Over the various years and degree programs, I've had to learn the
JLG wrote:
I'm not sure what identifying means in this case, nor what identifies
one method as British and the other as American. All the American books
I've seen have indented paragraphs with no space between.
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RANT WARNING
On 20 Dec 2008, at 11:08, Richmond Mathewson ranted about some
professors:
Yet Richmond, despite your contempt for one professor who taught you
about paragraphs, you repeat what he taught you as fact. What do you
think that tells us? A quick look at various pieces of writing will
show
. . . Traditional Scottish Rants . . .
Well . . . I did warn you with 'barriers'.
DEFENSIVE SECTION FOLLOWS
I am not trying to rant about the inadequacies of educational establishments as
a way of
In my view, the problem with paragraphs is, that it's a style, not a
chunk. Therefore everyone can easily claim to do it right, and that
others do it wrongly.
As for paragraph support within Rev: As Paragraphs are styled and not
chunks, they should be supported within Fields. And they are
Also, you can get the htmlText and count p to get the number of
paragraphs in a field.
As for formatting you can insert a #9; after each p tag to insert
an indent.
Just a thought.
Tom McGrath III
Lazy River Software
3mcgr...@comcast.net
iTunes Library Suite - libITS
Information and
Thomas McGrath III wrote:
As for formatting you can insert a #9; after each p tag to insert
an indent.
See also the firstIndent field property in the Rev dictionary:
Use the firstIndent property to created indented paragraphs.
Value:
The firstIndent of a field is an integer.
By
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
What I did point out was that in Southern Illinois (even if nowhere else)
there was a rather narrow definition of what constitutes good English.
Easily resolved by looking at some American-printed books on Amazon, for
example. I'm surprised this professor was so
JLG wrote:
I'm surprised this professor was so uninformed.
Gosh!
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IT'S RANT TIME AGAIN
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I have a bachelor's degree from a top University (Durham, England),
an M.A. from SIUC, and an MSc from a
Just to reiterate that I think it would extremely
useful if RR were to be capable of identifying both:
1. British indented paragraphs; this presupposes that the
TAB key would work inside textFields.
2. North American paragraphs [i.e. those signalled by
a missing line].
I realise that RR is not
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Just to reiterate that I think it would extremely
useful if RR were to be capable of identifying both:
1. British indented paragraphs; this presupposes that the
TAB key would work inside textFields.
2. North American paragraphs [i.e. those signalled by
a missing
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