[Sca-cooks] Atlantian Twentieth Year Celebration - Feast Notes

[Elaine Koogler]

OK.  I thought I fixed everything when I sent this last version.  If you'll let me
know what didn't get fixed, I'll take care of it for you.

Kiri

"Mark.S Harris" wrote:

> Kiri said:
> > That's weird.  I guess it's because I used Word, which turned my fractions =
> > into
> > strange symbols when e-mailed.  Here is my recipe with real measurements:
>
> Uh, not quite. We've been over this a bit before on this list. Unless
> you turn it off, Word changes the three character "1/2" and other
> similar ones into a single, character at all times, not just when
> emailed. Some machines are set up to show this special character,
> some aren't. Unfortunately, even if your machine is, various programs
> such as mail programs or the program that creates the list digest may
> not be. Even the HTML converter within Word doesn't seem to be able
> to handle these special characters. (I just noticed there are some
> blanks in the Guisdados files in the Florilegium because of this.
> grumble)
>
> It is possible to turn off this "feature" in versions of Word later
> than 6.0/95. Word also does something similar with single and double
> quotes, which is why they are still screwed up in your message you
> just sent, Kiri (ie: Maestro Martino=92s). Unfortunately, since
> Microsoft thinks they know better what you want than you do, the
> default is to come up with these options on. I have yet to find
> a method to turn off these "features" in Word 6.0/95 and below. I
> usually have to copy and paste the "real" character from elsewhere.
>
> Writing Word files as text files and then copying and pasting those
> into email messages is probably the best way to handle this. I
> think this forces Word to change the funny characters into real
> characters. If you simply copy and paste, the funny characters
> have not been translated.
>
> Previously, I was getting an Omega sign and other specific strange
> symbols for the "1/2" and other fractions and I've
> been able to translate them to the appropriate fraction (I hope)
> as needed.  In Master Tirloch's message I got those strange "=BD"
> things instead. Kiri, since your recipe had at least two of these,
> that will help me start my second decoder ring. :-) But I think
> there was one more different one that wasn't in your recipe.
>
> I don't know what effect changing the list software has had on this.
>
> Mark Harris (Stefan would've been considered the village idiot
> for talking like this)
> stefan at texas.net
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