At 09:53 PM 10/7/05 +0100, Jean Leader wrote: >The typo mentioned is probably the result of quick and dirty editing
Since it was the *only* typo I found -- and I'm officially the Chief Nitpicker of the N3F, so I've had a *lot* of practice at finding typos -- it can't be quick and dirty editing. I couldn't find any infelicities in the text, either. You'd be amazed at how long an incomplete correction can elude you. Especially when it's in a very prominent place. I don't think the information about web-safe colors is at all dated. You don't have to worry about it *much*, nowadays, but the unsafe colors he showed were not distinguishable to the naked eye from the safe colors. If you are, for example, color-coding a lace diagram, why not pick colors that will come through bright and clear to the backwoods orphan using a hand-me-down monitor? It might even be easier to choose clearly-contrasting colors from a limited palette. I was surprised a bit at his comments on Mac vs. PC monitors -- I hadn't been aware that there was enough uniformity in monitor settings for such a slight difference to show up. I keep my monitor, for example, set on 25%/75% brightness and contrast, to make it possible to read e-mail and Usenet -- both my mailer and my newsreader insist on displaying text as paper fonts on a white background -- even with the font size dialed way up, it's impossible to read paper fonts when they are shadowed against a background that gives off enough light that I can read by it. Really and truly -- I checked out a couple of books that, despite being hardcovers, have teeny type -- and in addition, it's a slightly-curly font that makes the letters look even smaller. A few nights ago, I wanted to read one of these books, and didn't feel like carrying it into the living room. The lights in here are optimized for sewing; I already knew that even if I put on a hat and sit over by the sewing machine, the light over the ironing board isn't at all comfortable to read by, not even when I have large, clear type. The smaller light can be aimed at the sewing machine, but not at a book. So I instantiated Mozilla, turned to a blank page, and set the monitor brightness for 100%. The only trouble with this arrangement was that I had to bump the mouse every five minutes to turn the screen saver off. (The screen saver depicts a night sky, and was chosen to keep the computer from keeping me awake at night -- the sewing-room door is opposite the bedroom door, and we leave both doors open, so even at 25% brightness, the wallpaper gives off too much light. I tried red wallpaper once, but that was icky to work with. And didn't really work very well.) I have to increase the brightness when I go to fabric.com to look at the swatches, but when the photographs aren't my main reason for visiting a site, I rarely bother, unless the text mentions a detail that I can't see. -------------------------------------- ARRRRGH! After writing the above, I began to clean up the HTML version of a newsletter that I'd just printed, burst, collated, folded, stuffed, sealed, stacked, bagged, and forgotten to take to the post office. I've been editing that thing, off and on, for the last five years. But not until I began to pick out the surplus machine-generated codes did I notice that the Default Rules, the very first thing on the very first page, were numbered "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,8,9". Well, on paper one rule 8 was at the bottom of a column and the other rule 8 was at the top -- but durn it, I copied and pasted that section directly out of the previous issue, which had columns that broke in a different place. I'm NOT going to look at the previous issue. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
