Formatting
A lot of my recent poems involve spacing and indents that don't transfer when they go onto this site. Anyway of changing that, so it reflects how the poem actually looks on the page?
Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:48 am
I have had the same problem of late. I write my poems under draft, and copy paste them into the poetry site and work on them more. I to have had this problem. Not sure what it is...seems new.
Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:34 am
I'll get in touch with the techies and see what can be done.
Do you mean here on Discussions or would you like to see it on Profiles and Blogs too?
Do you mean here on Discussions or would you like to see it on Profiles and Blogs too?
Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:04 am
Profiles & Blogs too. There's no point putting up poems with spaces & indents if they don't look like what they're supposed to on the page.
Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:12 am
Hi
The tech guys are still looking at this but one of them makes the following comments with regard to a poem that Steven sent me in Word format as an example.
Hope it helps
Paul
"I notice the poem is relying on indentation and lining things up which depends on the character width of the font used.
The web is not like Word. People use different browsers on different platforms and have different fonts installed. A web page will look different on different people's computers as many people will be aware. You should not rely on anything but a few core fonts.
The Arial Narrow font used in the document is a variable width font so, for example, an "i" is narrower than a "W". If the font changes, then character widths will be different and things will line up differently.
I would advise to stick to the following fonts: "Arial", "Times New Roman", "Courier New" and "Verdana". The most reliable of these for indentation is "Courier New" since it is a fixed width or "monospace" font so every character, including space is the same width. Lastly, if you use spaces rather than margins to do indents then it has a better chance of reproducing things correctly because you are avoiding trying to convert Word's margin model into html when the copy and paste happens.
Please note that even if it looks OK on your computer, someone else, e.g. a visually impaired user might increase their font sizes so the indentation won't look correct to them."
The tech guys are still looking at this but one of them makes the following comments with regard to a poem that Steven sent me in Word format as an example.
Hope it helps
Paul
"I notice the poem is relying on indentation and lining things up which depends on the character width of the font used.
The web is not like Word. People use different browsers on different platforms and have different fonts installed. A web page will look different on different people's computers as many people will be aware. You should not rely on anything but a few core fonts.
The Arial Narrow font used in the document is a variable width font so, for example, an "i" is narrower than a "W". If the font changes, then character widths will be different and things will line up differently.
I would advise to stick to the following fonts: "Arial", "Times New Roman", "Courier New" and "Verdana". The most reliable of these for indentation is "Courier New" since it is a fixed width or "monospace" font so every character, including space is the same width. Lastly, if you use spaces rather than margins to do indents then it has a better chance of reproducing things correctly because you are avoiding trying to convert Word's margin model into html when the copy and paste happens.
Please note that even if it looks OK on your computer, someone else, e.g. a visually impaired user might increase their font sizes so the indentation won't look correct to them."
Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:35 pm