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This topic has 8 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 25 August 2012 at 13:43 by Michael Gilligan.

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25 August 2012 at 02:16 #97082
David Littlewood
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David C:

I have had trouble several times with the forum softare automatically changing certain combinations of keystrokes into blasted smileys (spit). On the current thread on "Silver Solder Identification" it made it impossible to insert a link, as it interprets colon followed by p as a tongue-out smiley, thus . On other occasions certain combinations of end bracket and close quotes caused problems; you can get over the latter by putting in spaces, but URLs are either right or broken.

Please could you get your web people to remove the auto smiley insertion; anyone benighted enough to use them can presumably still insert them using the drop-down menu, but just let the rest of us get on without them gumming up our posts.

David

Edited By David Littlewood on 25/08/2012 02:18:23
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25 August 2012 at 02:16 #39220
David Littlewood
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25 August 2012 at 08:27 #97086
David Clark 13
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Hi David I will ask.

regards David
25 August 2012 at 08:37 #97088
JasonB
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Surely its just the way you inserted the link, done like this it works fine.

See page 55 of df”>this pdf

J

EDIT maybe you are right its adding something to the link

Edited By JasonB on 25/08/2012 08:39:07

Edited By JasonB on 25/08/2012 08:40:19
25 August 2012 at 09:00 #97089
Michael Gilligan
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David L,

I agree … auto-smileys are a silly toy, and should be banned.

That said; it's much "safer" if you use either square or angle brackets instead of parentheses.

MichaelG.

:-] :->

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 25/08/2012 09:02:55

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 25/08/2012 09:04:16
25 August 2012 at 09:27 #97091
Michael Gilligan
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P.S. … The big problem with the link that David L was trying to insert is that the EU [of all people!] has failed to comply with standards for the URL.

Their URL ends with "colon pdf" instead of "dot pdf"

[cheap puns about colons studiously avoided]

MichaelG.
25 August 2012 at 13:18 #97114
David Littlewood
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Posted by Michael Gilligan on 25/08/2012 09:27:14:

[cheap puns about colons studiously avoided]

Spoilsport!

David
25 August 2012 at 13:21 #97115
David Littlewood
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Michael,

On a more serious note, you are right and, as I said, there are usually some fudges to get around it – except where it's a web URL and has to be quoted exactly – but I really think it's unacceptable if we have to stop and think when and how we need to deviate from normal English usage just to get around what is by any standards a juvenile piece of software tat.

David
25 August 2012 at 13:43 #97119
Michael Gilligan
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David,

Absolutely agree!

MichaelG.

Just testing … is a direct link to that EU document … inserted using the infamous BubbleCar

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 25/08/2012 13:48:22

YES David … it's a SERIOUS problem … it just screwed up my text:

That originally said:

"Just testing … here is a direct link to that EU document … inserted using the infamous BubbleCar"

… with only the word "here" hyperlinked

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 25/08/2012 13:50:28

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 25/08/2012 13:54:28
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