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Posted Jan 12, 2001 by HenryS
I'm really not sure about this editing process...
Here's my original before editing: http://www.h2g2.com/A454871
Note the not-messed-up ASCII art...has anyone actually read this once it's been 'edited' and before it's gone up on the front page? It doesn't look like the editor has finished - there's also a couple of errors in the text.
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Posted Jan 12, 2001 by Fragilis - h2g2 Cured My Tabular Obsession
Actually, I can't see any difference between the ASCII art in your version and in the edited one. They look identical to me. I wonder why we are seeing different things. 
I understand your concern about the editing, HenryS. But please try to remember that your entry was edited by a person with feelings who volunteered his time to help you get your entry on h2g2's front page. You are right to ask for a resolution, but I feel you should be polite and understanding about it. After all, nobody's perfect.
Just explain exactly what 'errors' you see, and how they could be corrected. And the h2g2 staffers will more than likely fix everything post haste. 
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Posted Jan 12, 2001 by U255
I don't know exactly what happened here, but I've fixed it (I think). All edited text goes through a number of processes and gets shifted from one browser to another and occasionally things get missed and mistakes happen. Hope our speedy response restores your faith a little
All the best,
Sam
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Posted Jan 12, 2001 by HenryS
Wow, all seems to be fixed. Apologies, I think I was a little hasty before. My (unconscious) faith in the computers to not foul up surpassed my faith in the people to not foul up. (Hmm, probably an article in there). Imperfect communication is (I think) one of the biggest causes of aggro in the world, and I fell for it there. Sorry
Just one bit that looks odd: "just be lucky and find you can do them the same style."
...needs an 'Or' in front of it. And I'm a little surprised that the editing didn't remove the 'Henry Segerman' and 'uewJ363S hJu3H' from the first ambigram (and the 'cryptic' reference in the next line) - theyre certainly not necessary to the ambigram, and certainly less impersonal than without.
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Posted Jan 12, 2001 by Lucinda (et al) - Dun Researchin'
Entries are allowed to be personal and to reflect the style of the original writer - and in this case I think it improves the entry...
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Posted Jan 13, 2001 by Silly Willy - Archangel, PS of Silly Names, Keeper of Green
Hello!
Apologies for the Entry being messed up a bit with the ASCII art, I'm not sure how that happened.
And Lucinda's right, the reason I didn't change it was because I believe that while you are writing for "The Guide" the work is still your own and should reflect your own writing-style. Also I liked the Ambigram 
 <willy>
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Posted Jan 13, 2001 by HenryS
Ok...I'm not really complaining
Does anyone know if there's a way to get fixed width fonts into forum messages? Occasionally I'd like to do a bit of ascii art (eg ambigrams), and so far I've been referring to guide entries with it in, but it'd be far more convenient to just stick it in the message.
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Posted Jan 13, 2001 by Silly Willy - Archangel, PS of Silly Names, Keeper of Green
Thank you
As far as I know there is no way of formatting text in forums.
<willy>
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Posted Jan 13, 2001 by Lucinda (et al) - Dun Researchin'
nope - h2g2 decided to keep it simple, and most importantly, *fast*
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Posted Jan 13, 2001 by Silly Willy - Archangel, PS of Silly Names, Keeper of Green
I wish it was fast more often!
<willy>
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Posted Jan 13, 2001 by HenryS
Simple yes, but in the wrong font for ascii art *shrug* (surely this needs a smiley?). Ah well, its not as bad as MS outlook for ascii art - theres always the guide entries if needed.
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Posted Jan 13, 2001 by Silly Willy - Archangel, PS of Silly Names, Keeper of Green
This is entirely to do with fixed-width fonts, the idea that every character takes up the same amount of space as every other one. So a v fills the same amount of space as a w only when this is true does ASCII art work. You could, of course, set your browser to over-ride all font settings and force it to view in a F-W Font.
<willy>
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Posted Jan 14, 2001 by HenryS
Well yeah, I could do that, but it wouldn't be much use if I'm trying to draw a pic for someone else
Also I have a suspicion that it might do some weird stuff to the text, eg removing multiple spaces [URL removed by moderator]That's fine if youre writing sentences, nobody cares if a double space is replaced by one, but its disaster for ascii art.
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Posted Jan 14, 2001 by Lucinda (et al) - Dun Researchin'
yep - it gets rid of multiple spaces and spaces at the beginning of a line... I've had problems with both on occasion...
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