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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.
Here are a few more:
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.
Other sources of free fonts are available (e.g. DaFont and FontSpace). Some commercial fonts include a few free styles, but you usually need to register with the font vendor in order to ‘purchase’ them.
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.
If the document size is specified in inches, the standard bleed amount is 1/8 inch: the 3 mm quoted here is the metric equivalent. If you’re adding 1/4 inch to the overall dimensions, that’s 75 pixels at 300 ppi, so the finished size in pixels should be 2175 by 1575.
However, if you really need a bleed area, you might as well let the program handle the details for you! (Spoiler: You don’t need a bleed area for plain text on a white background.)
I have just posted a poem in response to a post by William, in the old Lounge, in the Video thread. It's the wrong place, like off topic, and with permission I'll post it here.
Here in this topic clearly wouldn’t be the right place, but since this section is currently such a mishmash I don’t see any reason for it not to reside in a new Discussion topic until such time as we have a more suitable category.
Well, the study of subjects such as French as a language is regarded as an "Arts" subject.
William
Some Arts students study Physics as ‘Natural Philosophy’. There’s a wide range of taxonomic choices we can make here!
What about literature topics?
Poetry etc.
Is ‘Art & Literature’ too broad? I’m inclined to think so, but I’d like to hear what other members think.
I suspect that most of us think of things like drawings, paintings and sculpture when we hear the word ‘art’. There’s also ‘the arts’, which would include music and literature, and the performing arts.
Is it copyright, though?
It was posted by Alfred.
The person who shared it on Twitter neither claimed copyright nor credited anyone else. It seems to be accepted that these things will be freely passed around on social media and elsewhere.
~PUNdora
Mewbacca
An ‘Art’ category would be like the ‘PagePlus’ category, but it seems to me that having a ‘Modern Art’ category would be analogous to having a separate category for PagePlus 8 (and to continue the analogy, having a category called ‘Museum of Modern Art, New York’ would be like having a category dedicated to PagePlus 8 PDF Edition).
It’s worth noting that in order to run ImpactPlus on recent versions of Windows you will need to follow this advice posted to the CommunityPlus Forum by Patrick Connor:
If you rename or delete this file (and ONLY this file) ImpactPlus 5 should run on Windows 8.1
• "C:\Program Files (x86)\Serif\ImpactPlus\5.0\WININET.DLL"
Thanks Ali/William for the nudge (and thanks to Jon P for the solution)
Another picture of the Bidens’ new cat:
I wish you the best of luck with this. There are clearly good people who can benefit from your efforts. Whether anybody tells you so or not, your efforts will be appreciated.
Apologies for the belated reply, Robert, and thanks for your good wishes!
I see what you mean now. The toolbar on CP has arrows that are missing from the toolbar here.
Is there really much difference between the standard Undo/Redo keyboard shortcuts and what those arrows do? 
I used it to generate the diagrams of spinning spaceships in the new science thread.
Here, for those wondering.
Alfred, you are doing a marvellous job in maintaining this new forum. Thanks.
Thank you, Jack. That’s very kind of you.
Reverting to problems with the forum facilities, is there any possibility of adding "delete/restore last change" features? Desirable, if not actually definitely required.
Even with my admin privileges I only see “(edited by…)” against edited posts. I don’t have access to the post history, as far as I’m aware.
if the astronaut has a height of say 2m
I wonder how many astronauts are as much as 2 metres tall.
If he had to bend down to pick up something from the floor, and had to get his head near the floor, his head would experience a gravity change of 0.5 to 1.5, or 1 g. Very disorientating.
If you bend down to pick up something from the floor, your head only needs to go down about as far as knee height unless you have very long legs or very short arms!
This is why a wheel is the best shape to minimise
“Proofread your work carefully to make sure you any words out.” 
According to SpinCalc, for a centripetal acceleration of 1G the angular velocity (spin rate) of a wheel of radius 50 metres would need to be 4.23 rotations per minute.
LOL! Thanks for sharing. 
Thanks for getting the ball rolling, Eric! 
Welcome aboard, Robert! I was hoping we would see you here sooner rather than later.
I’ve used phpBB forums elsewhere, and I agree about the resemblance, but I’m hoping that the fact of this one being ‘lightweight’ will mean that it’s easier to manage. I’m aware that I may need to deal with spam at some point, but at this stage I’d prefer not to even go so far as to tighten up the registration procedure in case potential genuine applicants are put off.
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