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I think you might be in good company!

Technically parentheses are these ()

This ... is an ellipsis.

[/Typography nerd]

markfiend wrote:Technically parentheses are these ()

This ... is an ellipsis.

[/Typography nerd]

I am genuinely ashamed.

Thank you, Mark, for saving me from further punctuation-related blunders!

markfiend wrote:Technically parentheses are these ()

This ... is an ellipsis.

[/Typography nerd]

As examples, the aforementioned punctuation should be in inverted commas, otherwise they affect the structure of the sentence in which they're contained

[/Excessivelly pedantic typography nerd]

Now all we need is a markup nerd to come and tell us that we can't have spaces in our tag names

Motz wrote:

markfiend wrote:Technically parentheses are these ()

This ... is an ellipsis.

[/Typography nerd]

As examples, the aforementioned punctuation should be in inverted commas, otherwise they affect the structure of the sentence in which they're contained

[/Excessivelly pedantic typography nerd]

Now all we need is a markup nerd to come and tell us that we can't have spaces in our tag names

If you're going to close the tag "[/Excessivelly pedantic typography nerd]" then you need to open it beforehand, otherwise you can't close it.

Example:

[Excessivelly pedantic typography nerd]comic sans should be eliminated[/Excessivelly pedantic typography nerd]

Secondly, it isn't Typography (Typography is the study and process of typefaces) but rather Punctuation, so the tag is incorrect and should have read:

[/Excessivelly pedantic punctuation nerd]

And obviously he should have opened the tag beforehand, as previously stated.

Thirdly, "Excessivelly" is spelt "Excessively".

Spaces in tag names (or 'elements' to name them correctly), however, are fine. Even XML elements with attributes have spaces to divide the element from the attribute.


You're welcome.

lazarus corporation wrote:...it isn't Typography (Typography is the study and process of typefaces) but rather Punctuation...

So do you have a typeface without punctuation?

With you on the Comic Sans thing though.

markfiend wrote:

lazarus corporation wrote:...it isn't Typography (Typography is the study and process of typefaces) but rather Punctuation...

So do you have a typeface without punctuation?

With you on the Comic Sans thing though.

Typography is concerned with the visual presentational of the printed word.
Punctuation is concerned with the structure of sentences.

The difference between parentheses and an ellipsis is of semantic and structural importance to a document, not of presentational importance.

So unless your remarks had been about the font weight, design and font-face of the elipsis and/or parentheses, then it's punctuation pedantry rather than typographic pedantry.

gentlemen. please. stop. for the love of god.

Quiff Boy wrote:gentlemen. please. stop. for the love of god.

It's like Jesus throwing the traders out of the temple...

This thread is a TIMple, and if you're not here to WORSHIP , then begone!

Quiff Boy wrote:gentlemen. please. stop. for the love of god.

I was going to say "I didn't start it!"

But I did.

Sorry

Quiff Boy wrote:gentlemen. please. stop. for the love of god.

Eleven pages of TIM-bashing (frowned upon in some parts of Glasgow) go unremarked, but a handful of pedantic posts on punctuation invoke the wrath of Herr Administrator.

Go figure.

smiscandlon wrote:

Quiff Boy wrote:gentlemen. please. stop. for the love of god.

Eleven pages of TIM-bashing (frowned upon in some parts of Glasgow) go unremarked, but a handful of pedantic posts on punctuation invoke the wrath of Herr Administrator.

Go figure.

It's not BASHING, it's our way of being friendly...

smiscandlon wrote:

Quiff Boy wrote:gentlemen. please. stop. for the love of god.

Eleven pages of TIM-bashing (frowned upon in some parts of Glasgow) go unremarked, but a handful of pedantic posts on punctuation invoke the wrath of Herr Administrator.

Go figure.

And if the topic was "Poor Pedants", then the Tim bashing would be frowned upon. But it isn't. Like it or not, the Tim bashing is (shock horror) on topic

At least The Great One knows how to take it in the spirit in which it is intended.

He knows ALL!

Apart from how to say "Don't think I'll have any more, I've got to get up for work in the morning..."

boudicca wrote: Apart from how to say "Don't think I'll have any more, I've got to get up for work in the morning..."

Damn. Foiled again.

You got a bit of a drink problem developing then Tim?

I've got no problem with it all.

timsinister wrote:I've got no problem with it all.

I'll remind you of that next time I talk you into doing something daft.

d00mw0lf wrote:

timsinister wrote:I've got no problem with it all.

I'll remind you of that next time I talk you into doing something daft.

Pointless; I won't remember being reminded, will I? I still cannot remember meeting Jillie-B

timsinister wrote:

d00mw0lf wrote:

timsinister wrote:I've got no problem with it all.

I'll remind you of that next time I talk you into doing something daft.

Pointless; I won't remember being reminded, will I? I still cannot remember meeting Jillie-B

Just wait till you meet her wrath. You WILL remember that.

timsinister wrote:I've got no problem with it all.

But looking at your avatar, you've aged since I last met you.

Could that be down to the drink?

Ed Rhombus wrote:

timsinister wrote:I've got no problem with it all.

But looking at your avatar, you've aged since I last met you.

Could that be down to the drink?

Very likely. I've obviously been so smashed I've not remembered signing on to the Imperial Navy either...

Looking at your avatar - could you need a shave? Maybe?

It adds to my cuddly imagine

Ed Rhombus wrote:It adds to my cuddly imagine

"Cuddly imagine". Wot are we meant to imagine then

boudicca wrote:

Quiff Boy wrote:gentlemen. please. stop. for the love of god.

It's like Jesus throwing the traders out of the temple...