1,126 Reply by Alfred

(1 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

The original article in The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl … x-tapestry

Please note the larger size and much greater sharpness of the image.

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1,127 Reply by Alfred

(7 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

William wrote:

A link to another article on the topic.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … music.html

William

That’s not really another article on the topic, it’s the original Daily Mail article whose content was scraped by MSN.

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1,128 Reply by Alfred

(7 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

GB wrote:

The funeral of the Belfast flute maker Sam Murray

Renowned Belfast flute maker Sam Murray remembered as man of ‘profound creativity’

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1,129 Reply by Alfred

(8 replies, posted in PagePlus)

Morris wrote:

I have got a new Windows 11 Laptop without a CD drive so I cannot use my PagePlus X7 CD to install the program.

Does anyone know how I can install the program on my new laptop.

Welcome, Morris! Please check your email.

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1,130 Reply by Alfred

(14 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

William wrote:

by looking at the post that contains the download link for ViewHex.zip one can learn more about it

Your post to the Unicode mailing list links directly to Erwin’s explanatory post to the High-Logic Font Forums.

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1,131 Reply by Alfred

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William wrote:

Well, the indirect link is to show the context.

William

In that case, why not say something like the following?

The validity of the use of tag characters in a private encoding is discussed at

https://corp.unicode.org/pipermail/unic … 10873.html

A zip archive of the ViewHex.exe program mentioned on that page can be downloaded from

https://forum.high-logic.com/download/file.php?id=189

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1,132 Reply by Alfred

(5 replies, posted in General Discussion)

William wrote:

Well, the title was in the link, but alas all of the text of the link was not displayed.

Well, it’s not quite true that all of the text wasn’t displayed, but some of it wasn’t! https://punster.me/images/wink.gif

You’ve posted here often enough to be well aware that a URL is displayed with an ellipsis in the middle if it’s too long. In any case, it doesn’t seem reasonable to expect the reader to inspect the minutiae of a URL in order to (try to) determine the nature of the contents of the linked resource.

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1,133 Reply by Alfred

(14 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

William wrote:

The reference to the blocks of salt is because if one looks at those characters in ViewHex.exe then one can find that they are U+25A1

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U25A0.pdf

The description of the symbol includes a reference to salt.

Thanks for the explanation and the link.

William wrote:

ViewHex.exe can be found in the thread linked from the following post.

https://corp.unicode.org/pipermail/unic … 10873.html

Thanks for the reference, no thanks for the very indirect link!

ViewHex.zip can be found at https://forum.high-logic.com/download/file.php?id=189

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1,134 Reply by Alfred

(5 replies, posted in General Discussion)

GB wrote:

links with no explanation of what they are about

It doesn’t help that the topic title is truncated. Instead of ‘Midlife language’ it should read ‘Midlife Language: 25 Surprising Phrases That Sneak Up on You’.

Also, once again, the scraped content as presented by MSN falls short. It forces the viewer to follow a series of separate pages as a slideshow (one that doesn’t even autoplay by default). The original site presents all of the content on a single page:

https://lovelistsuk.com/surprising-phra … up-on-you/

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1,135 Reply by Alfred

(14 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

William wrote:

I thought it rather good that he used 9 column an expressed zero by no accented character.

Oh, but there are accented characters there: it’s just that there aren’t any acute accents in the sequence! I think you’ve made a grave mistake.

William wrote:

Did you look at the earlier example in the same post?

Blocks of salt?

I thought of sugar cubes.

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1,136 Reply by Alfred

(14 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

Setting aside the fact that Ken Whistler’s suggested Unicode string looks as though it represents “April 36, 2024”, I don’t think it’s art at all (unexpected or not).

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1,137 Reply by Alfred

(1 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

The original article in The Guardian identifies the artist in the picture below the headline, instead of only crediting the photographer. It also includes a portrait of another artist mentioned in the article, and a photo of a work of art by a third artist. The final paragraph about Grayson Perry is accompanied by a link to a considerably older article about the artist. MSN seems to have an annoying habit of removing these little extras.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig … led-worker

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig … ard-enough

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1,138 Topic by Alfred

(0 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

A very different type of AI art generator.

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/ai-poetry-camera

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1,139 Topic by Alfred

(2 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

Earlier this week, Adobe announced an update to Firefly, its generative AI image tool.

Read about it here:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/ado … -to-try-it

Try it here:
https://firefly.adobe.com

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1,140 Reply by Alfred

(10 replies, posted in General Discussion)

William wrote:

But Alfred's comment in the original thread did not just refer to those two uses of "that" as he put every use of "that" in bold type.

Well, there are other occurrences that I would be tempted to replace with ‘which’ for improved readability, but there is also another ‘that … that’ pair.

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1,141 Reply by Alfred

(10 replies, posted in General Discussion)

William wrote:

I suppose in a way I think of it as like the Oxford Comma.

I think of it as not even remotely like the Oxford comma! As you say, William, the Oxford (or ‘serial’) comma avoids ambiguity. I don’t see how a supernumerary ‘that’ can be regarded as performing a comparable function.

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1,142 Reply by Alfred

(10 replies, posted in General Discussion)

GB wrote:

Thank you for pointing out that that that is surplus and that that that should be deleted.

https://punster.me/images/biggrin.gif

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1,143 Reply by Alfred

(10 replies, posted in General Discussion)

GB wrote:

There is also an issue with unnecessarily long sentences, especially those with sparse punctuation.

Agreed. I also commented on that in the other thread:

And rather lacking in punctuation, too, which results in the reader having to do a lot of work to unravel the meaning.

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1,144 Reply by Alfred

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GB wrote:

That sentence is not incorrect, but would not earn you good marks in any English exam.

Yes, there is an issue with using a word a number of times in a sentence. It comes under the heading of "style". No editor, or sub-editor, would allow it to pass unmodified.

For the benefit of those who haven’t visited the other thread, I have to confess to being responsible for the criticism of William’s choice of words.

As someone who worked as an editor in a past life, I’m afraid I don’t agree with Geoff’s assertion about the correctness of the sentence in question. If you replace

it may be that Canva will decide that …

with

Canva may decide that …

then I hope it readily becomes apparent that we’re left with

Canva may decide that notwithstanding the present policy that a new policy will be instituted

There are two occurrences of the word ‘that’ in the above example; either one is fine, but not both. If you’re not yet convinced, try putting the parenthetical remark ‘notwithstanding the present policy’ in … er … parentheses:

Canva may decide that (notwithstanding the present policy) that a new policy will be instituted

By its very nature, a parenthetical remark is dispensable. If you dispense with it here, this is the result:

Canva may decide that that a new policy will be instituted

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1,145 Reply by Alfred

(151 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

William wrote:

So what is it then?

An upholstered radiator!

LOL. I don’t think so! Anyway, regardless of what the ‘radiator’ is meant to be, the lampshade in the corner looks decidedly anachronistic.

William wrote:

I once saw a Victorian fair in Worcester where there was a sweet stall and the man in Victorian costume was putting sweets in a bag while wearing a plastic bag over his hand for modern hygiene.

Was he putting the sweets in a plastic bag or a paper one?

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1,146 Reply by Alfred

(151 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

William wrote:

In

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=4840#p4840

Is that a radiator beneath the window?

William

I wondered the same thing at first, William, but upon closer inspection it’s clearly upholstered.

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1,147 Reply by Alfred

(151 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

Prompt: “An original painting, in the style of Vermeer, of a room with a window on the left. A woman is playing a virginal, and her proud father is watching and listening.”

https://i.postimg.cc/v4YDMKcc/IMG-0975.jpg  https://i.postimg.cc/KK4z3g7b/IMG-0976.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/NyV06fbH/IMG-0977.jpg  https://i.postimg.cc/NKdF0xHb/IMG-0978.jpg

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1,148 Reply by Alfred

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Cryptogram wrote:

When I say PPX8 I meant Photo Plus X8, not Page Plus.

PagePlus X8 -> PPX8
PhotoPlus X8 -> PhPX8

I’ve moved your thread from the General Discussion forum to the PhotoPlus forum.

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1,149 Reply by Alfred

(151 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

William wrote:

Can readers try to work out anything about the prompt that I used that resulted in this picture please?

https://i.postimg.cc/vDT3vcB1/b293b700-9ef6-41cc-8df4-8a682babc657.jpg

My guess is that your prompt included a reference to Vermeer. The window is like the one which is featured in both The Astronomer and The Geographer, and at least two of his paintings depict a lady playing a virginal.

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1,150 Reply by Alfred

(1,162 replies, posted in MoviePlus)

KarenPL wrote:

Even before I became self-employed, and certainly now in retirement, I have talked to myself. One definite advantage is that you can never lose an argument. https://punster.me/images/myopera/myg/haha.gifhttps://punster.me/images/myopera/myg/haha.gifhttps://punster.me/images/myopera/myg/haha.gif

You obviously haven’t tried hard enough, Karen! https://punster.me/images/myopera/myg/haha.gif

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