GB wrote:

But not for the  "critically endangered" tiger, it seems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_tiger

Well, nobody said it would be a happy year for the tiger!!

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William wrote:

Well, I suppose if there is a family with one or more children, the main could be split up so that everybody gets a bit and pad it out with some vegetables, such as carrots.

William

Or pad it out with some stir-fried rice noodles?

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William wrote:

Tesco has a special offer of a meal for two.

Though I suppose someone alone could have a good feed.

William

Or two meals, if they have a refrigerator and a microwave!

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Tesco is not alone! Sainsbury’s says:

Easter is coming
Shop now

The other major UK supermarkets seem to prefer to get Valentine’s Day out of the way first.

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William wrote:

A rather fine video, an instrumental cover of a German pop song with what appears to be a dashboard camera recording of a journey on a road. Only 19 views so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi2ljfUjI2M

I hope you enjoy the video.

William

Just testing!

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hi2ljfUjI2M/maxresdefault.jpg

jackneve wrote:

In the context, KISS is in no way scatological or obscene.

I don’t believe anyone has suggested that it’s either of those two things! https://punster.me/images/ohmy.gif

William wrote:
Alfred wrote:
William wrote:

How about changing
Include
to
On including
please?
Still shorter than my original suggestion but removing the imperative of ordering someone to do it.

On reflection, I wonder if ‘Include’ here isn’t really just shorthand for ‘To include’, rather than being an imperative. That aside, I see nothing wrong with changing ‘Include’ to ‘Including’.

Thank you.

William

You’re welcome.

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jackneve wrote:

Works fine in Vivaldi

Perhaps I needed to log in - although before doing that, in  Firefox and Vivaldi all attachments came up with the tag against them "You do not permissions to ..."

I'll close down the PC sometime and look again  - which is almost the first thing I do every morning to see if Alfred pas  paased some literary gems.

I’ve just tried a different browser, where the following message shows against each of the attachments in this thread:

You don't have the permssions [sic] to download the attachments of [sic] this post.

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jackneve wrote:
William wrote:

No.

William

Sorry, as Alfred diagnosed correctly, the knob on my time machine has slipped. Comes of using metric threads instead of good old BA.

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

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jackneve wrote:

I've moved to Firefox, and I have no trouble in opening th pdf.

In fact, before I logged in,into Firefox, it was telling me I had not got permission to download ANY of the attachments.

Seems there is a clue in there . .

Good news, Jack! Thanks for the update.

William wrote:

How about changing
Include
to
On including
please?
Still shorter than my original suggestion but removing the imperative of ordering someone to do it.

On reflection, I wonder if ‘Include’ here isn’t really just shorthand for ‘To include’, rather than being an imperative. That aside, I see nothing wrong with changing ‘Include’ to ‘Including’.

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William wrote:
jackneve wrote:

For goodness sake, after means following.
(1) Following: in time - "Henry V was after Henry VI"

No.

William

What’s the matter, William? Haven’t you heard of time travel?? https://punster.me/images/laugh.gif

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jackneve wrote:

BTW re your post of 13.17.01, I was aware of this. I am wary of inserting text inside the brackets, as the font is small - while  big enough for normal reading - and the cursor tends to go in the wrong place and has to be nudged into position.

If you double-click on the word ‘quote’ in the opening tag you should find that it becomes highlighted, allowing you to overwrite it with quote=username.

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jackneve wrote:

to Alfred:

Are you able to download the last post 16.22.54?

It always says download blocked,

I'll try another browser

Yes, the link works fine for me. And it obviously works for others, too: before I clicked on it I saw

Attachment icon archos reduced a4 bklet1.pdf 216.47 kb, 14 downloads since 2022-01-30

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Alfred wrote:

At that point I see the filename as a clickable link

A lovely example of “spell check won’t save you” there! I had omitted the space between “see” and “the”, but because “seethe” is in the dictionary it wasn’t flagged as an error.

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jackneve wrote:

That’s the path to a file on your computer, Jack! Unless you’re running your own server, you need to upload it as an attachment to share it with the rest of us.

I know that, and I'm beating my brains out to get the thing to upload an attachment.
When I click on choose file, if I go to the actual file in its location deep in a subfolder, it prints the short filename, not the path.
I don't understand at the moment whether it looks up the path and merely prints the filename.

The last go, when I clicked on the filename, it said the upload was blocked.

Aaarrrg.

Before I press the ‘Choose File’ button I see “no file selected”. When I press it and browse to a file, I see the filename without the path, and when I press ‘Add file’ it gets uploaded. At that point I see the filename as a clickable link, followed by the file size and the words “file has never been downloaded”.

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William wrote:

Use as a preposition, section 5 and 5.1 are not the same.

Section 5.1 is so designated, rather than being numbered as section 6, because it’s a subtype of what’s described in section 5.

William wrote:

the rudeness accompanying the altered version

I believe the KISS acronym is too much of a cliché for most people to read it as rude.

William wrote:

Your version uses an imperative verb and the abbreviated title could imply breaching someone's copyright.

I don’t think the imperative mood implies anything that wouldn’t be implied by the use of a gerund, but I take your point about the omission of the word “original” and I’ve edited the topic title accordingly.

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William wrote:
jackneve wrote:

I just realised, William's thoughts were of a can of apricots, so it's better that I chose another fruit - no plagiarism there!

Ah, not plagiarism as you acknowledged your poem as after my thoughts.

So, a poem by Jack after some thoughts by William

Maybe pastiche, though not quite.

Though is after only used for paintings and prints and the like?

William

Doesn’t “after” in this sense simply mean “in the style of”? (I find myself thinking of Gerard Hoffnung explaining that he was named Gerard after an uncle, “and Hoffnung after Gerard”.)

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jackneve wrote:

I am attaching one to demonstrate
[pdf]D:\My Documents\00 PagePlusX9\Anniv card4 21 21.pdf[/pdf]

That’s the path to a file on your computer, Jack! Unless you’re running your own server, you need to upload it as an attachment to share it with the rest of us.

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Alfred wrote:
jackneve wrote:

I had the notion that we could have a thread devoted to the literary arts - more the literature rather than the mechanism.

A good point well made, as they say! I’m afraid I’m all too prone to following a thread where it leads. Perhaps I should split the off-topic posts to a new thread.

Done.

Include a poem in a greetings card

William wrote:

Also, I don't know whether you would want to do this, but you could if you wish produce a greetings card with the poem on the front, and instead of the greeting inside, your name and the date, then send it to yourself.

Here is a link to the template.

https://www.papier.com/portrait-photo-315

The purchaser replaces the image with an image of his or her choice.
The purchaser changes the greeting inside to his or her choice. Various fonts are available. For one card I got twenty-one lines of text in Garamond instead of the greeting, namely sixteen lines of a poem, and a description and my name and the month and year, together with space after the poem and before the description.

Here is the website.

https://www.papier.com/

One needs to register to order a card, but it is free and I have made aroud a dozen cards there and sent them to myself and framed them with frames from Tesco delivered with my grocery orders.

The cards are £3.50 plus 85p postage.

Nicely printed and a matt finish, so less than twice what a non-customised card of similar quality would cost in the shops.

One needs to send a jpg file.

I worked in pixels at 2171 pixels high by 1571 pixels wide at 300 dots per inch; that gives a bit of sideways play.

The size is, mixed units, 7 inches tall by 5 inches wide, with a 3 millimetre wide bleed area on each edge, though only three of them get chopped off.

Best to leave a bit of white background space above the text, which I prefer to be typeset in a text frame, not as artistic text, and a bigger bit of white background space below the text.

The image could just be of text, or there could be coloured decoration too.

The poem is, including blank lines between verses, twenty-four lines.

So with space above and below, twenty-four lines needs to fit into about five inches vertically.

So what point size?

Electronic type size tends to be meaured as height above the base line rather than overall height as is done with metal type printing.

So some trying out needed.

But needing about five lines per inch, so maybe fourteen point or perhaps twelve point.

Which font? Upright or italic, or a script font?

Well, that is an author's choice and depending also what the author has available or could have available after a free download from Google fonts.

So no suggestion from me so as not to influence the author's choice.

William

jackneve wrote:

William:

On the possibility of producing a greetings card that displays the text of an original poem

William can't you KISS - keep it stupid simple?
A simpler title:
Include a poem in a greetings card.

Perhaps William was trying to keep it literary, like ‘A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig’. https://punster.me/images/phpbb3/smilies/eusa/think.gif

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William wrote:

Memories of January nights

Not memories of January knights? https://punster.me/images/myopera/myg/knight.gif

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jackneve wrote:

Wiliam:

I have noticed that your poem does not have a title.
It is an author's choice not to have a title for a poem.
But just wondering if you might like to consider adding a title.

I will think of a title, and edit the post to incorporate that.

https://punster.me/images/tip.gif If you highlight some text in the message box and press the Quote button on the toolbar, you get something like this:

[quote]I have noticed that your poem does not have a title.[/quote]

Changing the opening

[quote]

to

[quote=William]

will make it display like this:

William wrote:

I have noticed that your poem does not have a title.