From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The December 2003 WSFA Journal is available online
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:50:30 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

    The poem was laid out like that because it's a tribute to Dr. Suess
who wrote in 6 or 7 syllable lines, modified by the desire to minimize the
length of the resulting page.
    The peculiar name rendered as "Y6uhy Yti6k" below was my best effort
to reproduce a name actually written on the sign in roster.  Viewed upside
down, that name looked a great deal like "Keith Lynch" but I decided that
the similarity to Keith's name was a mere coincidence and rendered it as
best I could using WordPerfect 5.1 nonalphabetic symbols to simulate the
reverse-e and reverse-c.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Lynch [mailto:rw_lynch at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 8:50 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The December 2003 WSFA Journal is available online

--- "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> wrote:
> Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Some significant appearance problems to fix.  The poem
> has word-wrap
> > problems, and line spacing is crunched in a few places.
>  Also,
> > Alexis's article will be less straining on the eyes if
> you use a
> > non-bold font face.
>
> Thanks.  I've fixed both problems, I think.  Alexis's
> whole article
> had appeared underlined in my browser, but I wrongly
> thought it would
> look ok in other browsers.  The poem was readable in my
> browser, but
> its layout left a lot to be desired.
>
> Please tell me if it looks better now.  I've put the
> corrected version
> at http://www.wsfa.org/journal/j03/c/.  The original
> version is still
> available (for now) at
> http://keithlynch.net/wsfa/journal/j03/c/
>
> The only other thing that still looks screwy in my
> browser is the last
> person listed as being at the WSFA meeting at Capclave,
> "Y6uhy Yti6k".
> A look at the automatically generated HTML source code
> shows that the
> sixes are supposed to be in some weird font, so
> presumably they don't
> look like sixes to everyone.  What does it look like to
> you?  If it's a
> character I can render in standard HTML, I'd prefer to do
> it that way.
>

Somewhat better, but some fix-up would still be helpful.
Paragraph indents are excessive and inconsistent.  Line
spacings and font faces are also inconsistent from article
to article.  Everything is right-justified; from a personal
viewpoint, I find on-screen text a lot easier to read if it
isn't right justified.  Poem word wrap problem is fixed,
though I've never seen a poem laid out in print that way.
There are still some lines somewhat crunched together in
some articles (for instance, in the final "Party Time"
article, the second and third lines -- second line ends
with "Rebecca Prather's" and third line begins with "house
near seven corners").  You should also use some hspace=5
and vspace=5 attributes in your image definitions, as there
needs to be a little bit of space between the illos and the
text.

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Rich Lynch
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