Leaving one or more spaces at the beginning of a line means something special to the wiki’s markup processor. The old trick to disable that isn’t working and there doesn’t seem to be a new one. If you leave a space at the beginning of a line and write a long enough paragraph, it will cause horrible sidescroll.
Heh. Just posted the same thing. ;-)
Great minds…
There’s an opening there for someone.
How can I get rid of my new name Janesidescroll? It’s been in every box since I tried to call a mod’s attention to a side scroll.
except this one, he he.
Further research reveals that there is currently no fix for this problem. The way the software uses whitespace was changed, which broke the old way to disable it. A number of people in the user group have asked for a way to turn this feature off and the developer is considering for a future release. He releases pretty often but I have no idea when to expect it.
Meanwhile, I’ll fix sidescroll when people draw it to my attention.
Must.remember.code.
Jane
In the box “sign as author” put the name you want to appear and your ‘cookies’ will hold that as your default author until you change it again ..
Pogge - I think I have got too used to the ‘preview’ button ‘over the other side’ and now get quite apprehensive about doing any posting here that is ‘out of the ordinary’ ;-)
I’ve discovered that if it’s unpleasant to read a page with side scroll, clicking on ‘print’ at the top of the page (on the right) removes the side scroll by putting the text in what looks like ‘typewriter text’. It’s not my favourite font but at least it’s easily readable.
Thanks, pogge, for the inprovements to this site!
Ocean2, you’re right! Excellent and easy! Thanks!
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Just a quick question, what causes the ? after the author signature?
You don’t have a Profile. If you click on your name, it will take you to a Profile page named after you and allow you to put as much or as little information about yourself as you choose. It’s not mandatory though.
If you click on the Profiles link in the left sidebar you’ll see a list of all the Profiles that have been created here.
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So do we have to rewrite our profiles in order to get rid of the ? mark?
You’re a special case. The hyphens in your name don’t work because page titles can’t have hyphens or other punctuation. Your Profile lists you as Im Workin on It and that’s the name you’ll have to use if you want to lose the question mark.
you’re a special case (we knew that!) because the program has trouble with punctuation in thread titles. Click your name with the ? and see how the program describes you… Profiles.Im-workin-on-it, no apostrophe.
I’m channeling pogge… been doin’ it all day. ;-)
Actually scratch that last post. I just transferred your old profile into your new one. It was because the previous version handled the hyphens differently. I guess. In any case, the question mark is gone.
okey doke! Thanks — I’m feelin’ special :-)
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For those of you out there who might be wondering what we mean by “No Spaces at Beginnings of Lines Please”, the explanation is thus:
With the new software upgrade here on FluWikie2, which was done about 10 days ago, spaces and indents at the beginning of a typed line create very bad sidescroll, meaning that in order to read posts after an indent is entered, a person would have to scroll severely to the right to read the entire post.
What we’re basically sayin’ here is “Please, please, DO NOT hit Space Bar or Tab before starting to type your post. Please.”
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I caused a horrible side scroll on “hiding yor preps” Sorry folks!!!!
all fixed!
merry and healthy christmas to all