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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
That is very strange. Is it possible that they used MS Word and anchored each paragraph as if it were a separate image file?
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Hey, guys/gals:
Honestly, haven't a
clue. By all rights, what we're seeing
isn't possible. Word handles paragraph markers (pilcrows) differently than HTML/CSS, by and large.
In HTML/CSS, we tell the paragraph what form it's going to take at the
beginning, using the id, or inline CSS, or a named CSS style, etc. In Word, the opposite is true--all the CSS is carried in the pilcrow mark at the END of the paragraph. (This is why, boys and girls, if you hit the "backspace" key too enthusiastically, backing up into a previous paragraph, the carefully-done formatting that you thought you'd done, disappears! You heard it here
first, assuming arguendo that you didn't know that before. Back over the prior paragraph's pilcrow, and you've destroyed its destructions on how to display. Yes, that's YOU I'm looking at--you know who you are, you've done this in creative, typing fury, and then stared at the resulting carnage in frustration....)
Ergo, finding pilcrows in the left-hand margin--before a line--makes NO sense. They are effectively lost. They are either midstream, or...I admit, I haven't played with this at all. Haven't exported it to HTML, to see what the HELL that is. Or even changed the size/shape of the page, to see what happens. I should, if for no other reason than to provide data for we of the Wu-MR Clan. BUT, I tell you, my brothers and sisters, that should NOT be. It's like...
mutant code. Even if it were somehow created in HTML (or NTP, NT, some text editor), it should not display like that, if naught else.
I'll play with it. We'll see what it is. We have an obligation to humanity not to let mutant code loose in the world, to mingle with clean code DNA. We need to involve the World Code Health Organization, given the danger of mutant Code-NA getting out. Just think what would happen if this code BRED with clean code!
Ye Gods, the Code-manity!
Hitch