Alfred wrote:
William wrote:

I had never thought, nor seen it suggested anywhere, that Mr Collins wanted his offer of marriage to Elizabeth to be rejected.

On the contrary, I think Mr Collins — another William, by the way — would have seen himself as a good ‘catch’ and would therefore have been puzzled at anyone rejecting a proposal of marriage issued by him.

Why "On the contrary"? You seem to me to be more agreeing with me than disagreeing.

I had never thought, nor seen it suggested anywhere, that Mr Collins wanted his offer of marriage to Elizabeth to be rejected.

Mr Collins seemed a genuine man to me.

He did what he thought correct. He was refused but still wanted a wife.

Mr Collins and Charlotte Lucas both wanted someone to marry.

Thank you, Paul.

I have dipped in here and there.

Mr Collins wears glasses!

Ah!

Oh!

Who, or what, decided that Mr Collins wears glasses, and why?

The jazz number with the trumpets is great.

I can't find it now.

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Seeing your posts I decided to have a look around as to what was left.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … nt-1404237

I found this poem, which I had not remembered writing. Only almost six months ago.


Art show,
In my dreams.
Art show,
In my dreams,
will it become impossible and vanish with the morning?
I remember an art display
In Worcester, in the public gallery,
In the smaller room
Drawings, with green colouring, in wooden frames,
white horses on hillsides
Over a quarter of a century ago
Should this art show have ...
Rules, guidance, suggestions,
describe them as you will
Or not
A strucured display as then
Or a free format, pictures of various sizes
In various frames
A video of the art show
Unedited, hot rolled
To try to be as if there when it happened
As if happening now
Or carefully edited
Resulting in image rubble
Yet will the art show happen
Or be no more than a dream in a forum thread

Alfred wrote:

...

The concept that one needs to send CMYK if a PDF document is to be printed seems to not necessarily always be what is needed.

Did you really mean to say that the concept may not always be what is needed? https://punster.me/images/unsure.gif

Yes.

If I have got it wrong, I am happy to learn why.

Perhaps going off-topic, yet maybe worth mentioning here.

https://gracesgiclee.co.uk/apps/help-ce … ifications

The concept that one needs to send CMYK if a PDF document is to be printed seems to not necessarily always be what is needed.

I am not an expert on all of this, I just knew of what is in the linked page and so I have posted the link in case it might be relevant.

Thank you, Ali.

What if, (if these proposed characters are implemented), on some future day, there is a poem with both of these characters in each line?

I have seen this.

UTC Proposal: Watermark Symbols for AI Training Consent and Text Provenance

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/25241- … rmarks.pdf

This link may be useful to you.

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf

UTC is Unicode Technical Committee

I have posted in this section because a lot of AI-generated content is in this Art and Literature forum.

Alfred wrote:

After all, a triangle is a rectangle with one side of zero length.

An isoceles triangle.

Continuing, Alfred wrote:

In a similar vein, a pentagon can be regarded as a decagon half of whose sides are of zero length! https://punster.me/images/tongue.gif

Hmm.

I wonder what angles are involved for that.

Please consider too a quadrilateral where the angle between two of the sides is 180 degrees.

Thank you for replying.

I have registered some time ago. I seem to have missed that feature.

So that seems to indicate 6 pm UK time, except that we but the clocks back on the last Sunday in October, so it might be 7 pm here as I think, but am not congruently sure, that people in America will not have put their clocks back by 30 October.

When I was young, UK clocks used to go back in September and mainland Europe clocks went back at the end of October.

It caused problems with imetables for ferry services across the English channel.

What time will the Canva 30 October 2025 announcement start in the UK?

The UK will put the clocks back on the Sunday before.

Is the announcement being made worldwide simultaneously?

I have seen mention of 10 am PT and mention of 10 am Pacific Daylight Time.

It seems American practice is to put the clocks back on the first Sunday in November.

Ali wrote:

Which triangle are you referring to?

I realized, after I had got the result, that I had in error put 'triangle' instead of 'rectangle'.

I left it as it had been when the experiment had taken place.

Being in error is not good, but it is important not to falsify what actually happened in the experiment.

Here is what Copilot wrote after producing the picture.

Here it is—your Renaissance-inspired landscape is ready {palette emoji redacted}. The composition follows your layout beautifully:

Foreground (left): A Botticelli-style lady in a flowing red and gold gown, her gaze lifted admiringly toward the sky.

Middle distance (upper center-right): Leonardo da Vinci’s ornithopter gliding gracefully, its canvas wings catching the light.

Far distance (lower center-right): The iconic towers of San Gimignano rise above the Tuscan hills, bathed in warm sunlight.

Click the card above to view or download the image. Let me know if you'd like to adjust any details or explore another scene!

https://i.postimg.cc/tsv893f4/composition-002.png

Please paint a landscape picture. Please use the file that I have uploaded as a guide to the layout of the composition. Replace the green rectangle with the hilltop town of San Gimigano in the far distance. Replace the blue triangle with Leonardo da Vinci's flying machine flying in the middle distance. Replace the red rectangle with a lady in the style of Botticelli's Primavera, in the foreground, looking towards the middle distance, viewing the flying machine admiringly.





https://i.postimg.cc/Hrrdwh4T/Copilot-20251020-123636.png

I tried to find out whether a prompt consisting of a combination of an image and some text would work.


https://i.postimg.cc/bSnBT4N5/composition-001.png

Please paint a landscape picture. Please use the file that I have uploaded as a guide to the layout of the composition. Replace the red rectangle with a lady in the style of Botticelli's Primavera, looking towards the right of the picture. Replace the blue rectangle with an artist, seated, with a palette and a paint brush, looking to the right of the picture. Replace the green rectangle with an easel with a partially complete picture of San Gimignano.





https://i.postimg.cc/JGRfq2mm/Copilot-20251020-120708.png

https://i.postimg.cc/Hrrdwh4T/Copilot-20251020-123636.png

https://i.postimg.cc/JGRfq2mm/Copilot-20251020-120708.png

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(9 replies, posted in Share your work (no AI))

Please find attached the chapter of my first novel where the new designs are introduced.

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Alfred wrote:

I presume you mean one glyph for ‘Welcome’ and another glyph for ‘Thank you for visiting’, not two glyphs for ‘Welcome and thank you for visiting’!

Yes.

I tend not to write it like that so as not to risk giving the impression of the meaning including the quote marks.

Continuing, Alfred wrote:

I’m curious as to why you’ve chosen the passive voice, saying those glyphs ‘have since had an additional design produced’ rather than claiming ownership by saying ‘I have since produced an additional design’.

It was not a deliberate choice. I suppose something to do with how I was taught to write up experiments.

Alfred wrote:

(The additional designs are for new glyphs, not the existing glyphs, but that’s another issue.)

Yet interesting.

How exactly would my meaning be correctly worded?

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Alfred wrote:

Those overlapping shapes look as though they’ve been carefully arranged to represent a familiar quadruped, ...

Indeed. To try to give a three-dimensional look as well.

Alfred wrote:

...but the animal I’m thinking of usually has a tail, two ears instead of one, and tapering head, neck, hind legs and body.

Indeed.

Actualy, it was intended to be the full moon at night.

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(9 replies, posted in Share your work (no AI))

A PDF slide show

The slide show includes some clip art not drawn by me, and a font not designed or produced by me.

The text is written by me.

Alfred wrote:

I’m guessing that the up-arrow represents a tree, ...

{discussing art, pedantry mode switched on}

Oh, why?

https://i.postimg.cc/8snPtwnr/shapes.png