Interesting coding...

Karellen · 09-18-2023, 10:56 PM

I guess somebody didn't realise that the text goes between the tags. The entire books is formatted this way...

Sarmat89 · 09-19-2023, 01:10 AM

Automatic conversion does such things...

enuddleyarbl · 09-19-2023, 06:07 AM

What displays in an e-reader with that formatting? A paragraph consisting of a non-breaking space with that formatting followed by a default-formatted paragraph of the actual text (I'm assuming most readers would catch the naked text and wrap it in paragraph marks)?

Maybe it's a poor-man's attempt at double spacing the paragraphs.

JSWolf · 09-19-2023, 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Karellen

I guess somebody didn't realise that the text goes between the tags. The entire books is formatted this way...

Where did that eBook come from? It's not retail.

DiapDealer · 09-19-2023, 06:32 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

Where did that eBook come from? It's not retail.

Doesn't matter. Stop trying to police.

JSWolf · 09-19-2023, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Doesn't matter. Stop trying to police.

It's from one of the Star Trek Log books by Alan Dean Foster.

DiapDealer · 09-19-2023, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

It's from one of the Star Trek Log books by Alan Dean Foster.

Yes. That's quite obvious. It was the provenance of the ebook that was irrelevant. Stop asking people WHERE they got an ebook. It's a cheap attempt to "catch" someone at something it's not your job to catch them at.

DNSB · 09-19-2023, 01:04 PM

For what it is worth, I suspect that this text was taken from Scribd. Looking at Bantam Episodes - 006 - The Savage Curtain, the text appears identical including the extra hyphens.

Is the official stance of MobileRead now "don't ask, don't tell" when it comes to copyright violation?

Quoth · 09-19-2023, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Yes. That's quite obvious. It was the provenance of the ebook that was irrelevant. Stop asking people WHERE they got an ebook. It's cheap attempt to "catch" someone at something it's not your job to catch them at.

Unless he's working for RIAA or some such?

DiapDealer · 09-19-2023, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by DNSB

Is the official stance of MobileRead now "don't ask, don't tell" when it comes to copyright violation?

We don't want copyrighted books posted here. We also don't want people saying things like; "Piracy is great! come join the pirate crew at piratecrew.c0m". Other than that, the policy has always been, "if they don't come right out and say it/do it, don't worry about trying to get them to do so." Especially not regular members. We're not the internet police.

Regular members can report what they suspect is copyright violation (true copyright violation, not unfounded suspicion or code snippets) and then let mods decide whether it runs afoul of our rules or not.

Quoth · 09-19-2023, 05:03 PM

The ! button with [ Report Post ] tool tip rather than making comments in the thread?

DiapDealer · 09-19-2023, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Quoth

The ! button with [ Report Post ] tool tip rather than making comments in the thread?

Yes. We'd rather members don't publicly engage spammers or potential copyright violators. Report it and forget about it. Your job is done.

Karellen · 09-19-2023, 05:19 PM

Ooh, didn't realise this would cause a problem. I was more focused on the weird coding rather than content.
In hindsight, I should have scrambled it.

Please delete thread if necessary.

But I was hoping it would be the start of a thread of bad/funny coding examples...

DiapDealer · 09-20-2023, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Karellen

Ooh, didn't realise this would cause a problem. I was more focused on the weird coding rather than content.
In hindsight, I should have scrambled it.

Please delete thread if necessary.

But I was hoping it would be the start of a thread of bad/funny coding examples...

No need to delete. It's just a snippet of code (and a picture of it at that). Your intent was clear to me. But some around here like to put on their deerstalker hats and go sleuthing for offense rather than just rolling with the humorous intent.

Karellen · 09-20-2023, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by DiapDealer

No need to delete. It's just a snippet of code (and a picture of it at that). Your intent was clear to me. But some around here like to put on their deerstalker hats and go sleuthing for offense rather than just rolling with the humorous intent.

Thanks

Maybe this picture may appease...
But I guess the argument will be format-shifting (or backup) is still a no-no.

09-18-2023, 10:56 PM	#1
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Karellen Wizard Posts: 1,104 Karma: 4911876 Join Date: Sep 2021 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Libra 2	Ooh, didn't realise this would cause a problem. I was more focused on the weird coding rather than content. In hindsight, I should have scrambled it. Please delete thread if necessary. But I was hoping it would be the start of a thread of bad/funny coding examples...

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