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Prisoner at War

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Jul 21, 2008, 1:57:02 AM7/21/08
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Besides resorting to images.

Say, a headline tilted at 30° or something.


TIA!

dorayme

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Jul 21, 2008, 2:47:06 AM7/21/08
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Gus Richter

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Jul 21, 2008, 4:36:58 AM7/21/08
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Prisoner at War wrote:
> Besides resorting to images.
>
> Say, a headline tilted at 30° or something.

Or you can use SVG:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/images/text/toap04.svg>

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dorayme

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Jul 21, 2008, 4:45:40 AM7/21/08
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In article <g61hrb$e3e$1...@aioe.org>,
Gus Richter <gusri...@netscape.net> wrote:

You didn't fancy my html/css?

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Gus Richter

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Jul 21, 2008, 4:50:52 AM7/21/08
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It was very well done m'lady and may be suitable for the OP.
OTOH, he may be interested in a slightly different alternative.
You don't care for SVG?

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dorayme

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Jul 21, 2008, 4:58:16 AM7/21/08
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In article <g61ile$h7g$1...@aioe.org>,
Gus Richter <gusri...@netscape.net> wrote:

No, I do... I mean... well, I don't know much about it. Sounds sort of
Doctor Who like. I bet if he waived his pen thingy over a piece of paper
or monitor it would do a SVG sort of thing.

I sort of take the fanciful idea that we should be like poets determined
to make a go of the sonnet form except in our case, it should be
html/css. Now what usenet group is this? Yes, I am right surely? For a
moment I thought it might be alt.html - where, of course, anything goes
and some people (I will not mention names) make sure that lots of things
go... <g>

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Gus Richter

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Jul 21, 2008, 5:23:49 AM7/21/08
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dorayme wrote:
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> No, I do... I mean... well, I don't know much about it.

I took interest quite a while ago and still have Inkscape as a rool with
which to automate rather than hand code (which is a heck of a bother).

> I sort of take the fanciful idea that we should be like poets determined
> to make a go of the sonnet form except in our case, it should be
> html/css.

HTML5 categorizes SVG as one of "The elements of HTML".

> Now what usenet group is this? Yes, I am right surely? For a
> moment I thought it might be alt.html - where, of course, anything goes
> and some people (I will not mention names) make sure that lots of things
> go... <g>

I am on the same page with you re. "he who shall not be named".

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Gus

dorayme

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Jul 21, 2008, 6:30:32 AM7/21/08
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In article <g61kj7$o10$1...@aioe.org>,
Gus Richter <gusri...@netscape.net> wrote:

> HTML5 categorizes SVG as one of "The elements of HTML".

hmm... perhaps I better take more interest in it then...

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Steve Swift

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Jul 21, 2008, 2:33:22 PM7/21/08
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Gus Richter wrote:
> Or you can use SVG:
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/images/text/toap04.svg>

I'm convinced. The rendering between Opera and Firefox was bitwise perfect.

I'm going to do my entire webpages in SVG from now on.
Has anyone got an HTML to SVG converter?

I wonder when IE will catch up? I have the IE8 beta on my spare laptop
and even that wanted to save it rather than render it.

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Harlan Messinger

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Jul 21, 2008, 2:47:23 PM7/21/08
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Steve Swift wrote:
> Gus Richter wrote:
>> Or you can use SVG:
>> <http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/images/text/toap04.svg>
>
> I'm convinced. The rendering between Opera and Firefox was bitwise perfect.
>
> I'm going to do my entire webpages in SVG from now on.
> Has anyone got an HTML to SVG converter?
>
> I wonder when IE will catch up? I have the IE8 beta on my spare laptop
> and even that wanted to save it rather than render it.
>

IE users have always had to rely on the Adobe SVG plug-in, but last year
Adobe dropped support for it, though it can still be downloaded.

Gus Richter

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Jul 22, 2008, 1:31:55 AM7/22/08
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Steve Swift wrote:
> Gus Richter wrote:
>> Or you can use SVG:
>> <http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/images/text/toap04.svg>
>
> I'm convinced. The rendering between Opera and Firefox was bitwise perfect.

As it is in Safari.

> I'm going to do my entire webpages in SVG from now on.

Of course you could, but that may be going to the extreme and
unnecessary. The sample I provided is a self-standing SVG document,
however, one can include an SVG portion within an HTML document.

> Has anyone got an HTML to SVG converter?

A search on Google comes up with:
<http://www.google.ca/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=HTML+to+SVG+converter&btnG=Google+Search>

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Gus

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