Deborah Harrell wrote: > > --- Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Deborah Harrell wrote: > > > > > This is an "open book" (still uncorrected) by the > > Institute of > > > Medicine on infectious disease; I couldn't figure > > out how to paste > > > excerpts - it's an odd (to me at least) format. > > > > > > http://www.nap.edu/books/030908864X/html/ > > > > The pages are just .gif bitmap images. No wonder you > > couldn't paste excerpts :-) > > <lopsided grin> > If I knew what ".gif bitmap images" actually *were* I > might even get the joke (or possibly just feel more > computer illiterate)! I'm afraid that I use computer > terms as if I truly do comprehend the meaning behind > them... > > Took FORTRAN One Semester Back In The Days Of Punch > Cards Maru
It means it's an image. Like a photograph. Not something you could manipulate with a word processor or other text editing program, the way you can with most of the pages you cite from various sites. Trying to highlight text from one of those pages of uncorrected proofs would be like my trying to highlight the text of the photograph of my great-grandmother's grave and expecting it to transfer to plain text e-mail. (Have to actually type it in. At least once, anyway; if you really care about how my great-grandmother's gravestone reads, go to http://www.rootsweb.com, do a search on Harriet Meade JONES (the last name is the one all in caps, separate field from the first part of the name) and find the Post 'Em I stuck on her entry in Randy Jones' database.) Julia _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
