I can't seem to make capital words.
PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 1:16 pm
why cant i make capital words?
this thing wont let me make a whole word big capitol like.
this thing wont let me make a whole word big capitol like.
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I can't seem to make capital words.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 1:52 pm
If you mean what I think you mean, I imagine the forum software prevents all-caps to stop "shouting", which is considered rude. That's how it works on Invision boards, anyway...
PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:03 pm
S T O P - S H O U T I N G 
PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:40 pm
Hmm... that's new... I don't caps spam the boards, but I usually use caps for emphasis because it's so much easier than using boldcase and does boldcase really come across as shouting? I don't think that one or two words in caps is bad netiquitte. MAN...
PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:43 pm
This sounds like a challenge... Let's find out if the board is preprocessing phrases. All you have to do is convert to character entities...
Non entities:
THIS IS A TEST OF ALL CAPS TYPING!
Entities:
THIS IS A TEST OF ALL CAPS TYPING!
Non entities:
THIS IS A TEST OF ALL CAPS TYPING!
Entities:
THIS IS A TEST OF ALL CAPS TYPING!
PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:44 pm
What!?!?!?
PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:45 pm
I think it's just keeping the whole message from being in caps... Which is good, because that's very annoying...
PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:45 pm
THIS IS A TEST OF ALL CAPS TYPING!
PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:46 pm
Looks like CEs still work, even if it's all caps...
To answer the 'what?' comment, character entieties are ordinal representations of the data. For example, the text I typed above was really made by typing:
THIS IS A TEST OF ALL CAPS TYPING!
It get's more complex because you have to type it as '&#' . the ord (prepadded with zeros prefered) . ;
Better?
To answer the 'what?' comment, character entieties are ordinal representations of the data. For example, the text I typed above was really made by typing:
THIS IS A TEST OF ALL CAPS TYPING!
It get's more complex because you have to type it as '&#' . the ord (prepadded with zeros prefered) . ;
Better?
PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:46 pm
(sorry to doublepost, but it's important to preserve my last message for this off-topic post!)
Um... off-topic, but I found the little coincidence of my last message followed by my sig a little funny... Maybe the sleep is still wearing off, though...
Um... off-topic, but I found the little coincidence of my last message followed by my sig a little funny... Maybe the sleep is still wearing off, though...
PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:55 pm
Maybe it only applies to titles? Hmm...weird...but no, I don't generally consider a few words in caps shouting either, depending on context and whether or not they're bring substituted for italics.
PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 3:02 pm
If the post (or title) starts out in CAPS (or maybe has more caps than not..?) It seems to do it (see my threads in testing for the case study). However, the CE trick seems to work in titles as well, though you are limited to the number of characters you can use. A title can only be 85 characters.
What an odd number... DJ? Ideas...?
What an odd number... DJ? Ideas...?
PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 4:18 pm
Oldphil, could you edit your one post explaining the entities so that people don't have to scroll 3x there screen width to read others posts (not that the whole thread isn't annoying enough as it is 
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