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Father Luke

Father Luke

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Or like this. . . Charles Bukowski Forum

Everything is easy once you know how.

Note to Purple Stickpin:

Hit the quote button my post and look at it for the particulars.
(you don't actually have to repost it. Just use it to look at how it's done.)

Here it is written out:

1.) I copy the link I want. Then I write some words about it.

For Instance I write: The Title I want To Link

2.) Then I use my cursor to highlight that text.

3.) next I click this button, up on top:



4.) hank solo highlights the text of his links with a
color, and I liked that so I use it now. The way you
do that is to highlight the words in the link, not the
link itself, and then click this picture, up on top:



And pick the c o l o r you'd like to highlight the words with.

Seems difficult to do until you've done it once. But
there you go.

Feel free to ask any questions until you feel
comfortable with it, okay? Because I'm sure there
will be some things I've not made clear, or that I've
left out.

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Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

Not sure if you're trying to blow smoke up my backside, FL, but thanks. I am a member of other websites, and their methods are somewhat different, so I used the <> to post a link here and it ended up being messy. Now I see that this site automatically truncates long web addresses, so all I have to do is copy the web link and paste it here. Automatically truncated.

I also appreciate the way to link my own text to a web address as you've posted. Thanks again. I still want a BOSPress copy of your book, fucker.
 
Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

It means a website that you dive into the depths of, and come up with a link such as:

http://www.whothehellcares.com/jufy20%rtyuvthyrjghotyuyoibv7789thg utsh/lkojuemdyenrhtuyh%67ndewbapqlopruerftshjney/345645%kourlityhd75%89%rutyerhov aqps.askmewhyanyonecares

can be posted as: http://www.whothehellcares.com...aqps.askmewhyanyonecares

and it's still linkable. It just fits better in a forum like this. Truncation = rounding, essentially. A mathematical term exported to a web link paradigm, as it were. Technically, truncation refers to a reduction in digits at the end of a number (typically decimals). In this case, I used it to refer to reducing the size of a web link.

As a parallel, truncation could be viewed as a reduction in turkeyneck girth/length in Buk's world.
 
Father Luke

Father Luke

Founding member
Purple Stickpin said:
Not sure if you're trying to blow smoke up my backside, FL, but thanks. I am a member of other websites, and their methods are somewhat different, so I used the <> to post a link here and it ended up being messy. Now I see that this site automatically truncates long web addresses, so all I have to do is copy the web link and paste it here. Automatically truncated.
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Right. Forums vary, but here, and generally
speaking, forums use [ some stuff ] where others on the web use
< some stuff > So, yeah. That's what was happening for you.

I use a couple of websites to truncate long URI's
(or url's) http://tinyurl.com/ is among
the most common lof the ong link truncation sites.

But, yeah, you must actually put the entire link
into the forum post here. The forum then
"truncates" the link automatically.

Hope that helps!
 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
bospress.net said:
The revised second printing does or does not have the color title page?

I thought that it would not be in color.
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It is not, the title page is black ink only. That's why I asked, because I always assumed the "firsts" of Women in HC were the revised edition. But I don't know because I've never owned one.
 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
Purple Stickpin said:
Truncation = rounding, essentially. A mathematical term exported to a web link paradigm, as it were. Technically, truncation refers to a reduction in digits at the end of a number (typically decimals).
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And in php (which is the language this forum is written in) you can decide which parts and how much of the string (text) to truncate, and whether you want to cut it from the beginning, end or middle.
 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
Father Luke said:
I use a couple of websites to truncate long URI's
(or url's) http://tinyurl.com/ is among
the most common lof the ong link truncation sites.
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I am always wary of using third part sites to do anything in a post. tinyurl.com could disappear next week, and once that database is gone, so are all the tiny URLs out there.

I think if Flickr or YouTube went under (and as big as they are it is not inconceivable), half the content of the world's blogs and forums would disappear overnight. ;)
 
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