Mr. Doherty,

Rest assured, many of us are just glad you've taken the time to present your views against someone who wishes to challenge them. Please, take all the time you need to respond in a fashion that satisfies you.

I've had the same problem cutting and pasting and getting all those split lines. I end up deleting all the extra space myself and it's pretty annoying. Are there any tricks to avoid this?

If you use Microsoft office 2000, highlight all of the text and make sure the drop down menu on the far left says "normal" instead of "normal web."

Hi Ethan

Click on "Edit" instead of "Quote", then highlight the entire text in the box and copy and paste it to Word (or whatever).

No nasty little dotted lines like this:
---------------------------------------

And all the quotes, bolds, italics and links will be perfectly intact. WAY easier than just highlighting from the Board itself and copying and pasting.

BTW, if we are going to do this debate on the Debate Board, is there any special instructions for me or Earl to follow? Let me know by mail please.

Thanks,

Brian

Another trick I use when I want to copy extensively from existing messages is to right-click on the "Post Reply" link and select "Open Link in New Window". Then I have the original thread still open in the old window, and I can copy and paste from it.

When you copy a quote block from an existing message, the pretty horizonal line gets pasted into a text box as a long series of dashes, which screws up the wrapping of the thread display window. I usually copy from inside the embedded quote and, if necessary, typographically distinguish the embedded quote using bold or italics.

If you wish to compose in Word (which I do when I need to make use of the grammar/spelling checks), I recommend you first copy your text from Word and paste it into Notepad, then recopy from Notepad and paste into the box.

I realize this is a chore, but as an HTML-hating former Windows applications programmer, I should remind you that it is you who insisted on doing everything through a browser to avoid having to spend five minutes installing an actual program.

{added: By "you" I mean the assembled users of the world, not anyone specific!)

[This message has been edited by SingleDad (edited May 06, 2001).]

To stay in the type of discussion going on here, and to bring it back on topic for the Forum: Biblical Criticism & Archaeology...

Hey! How about those NT writers cutting and pasting from earlier works? How 'bout that? Huh?

Let's see if I can explain this without
digressing into too many techo-geek details.
In MS Word, characters such as <tab> have
meaning to the formatting display. In web
land, HTML (hyper text markup lanuage) ignores whitespace (tabs are considered
white space). The web server serves up
the HTML and the web browser performs the
formatting for display. The web browser
only formats according to the HTML
directives (such as <p> for enclose a
paragraph). This is historical since HTML
was derived from SGML (don't ask).

So the "worthless" box is just an HTML input
widget that collects your text (along with
the HTML tags) and then stores it (presumably
in a database on the SecWeb server). Then
when you view the threads,the text is sent
as is from the SecWeb server to your browser,
and your browser formats it based on the
embedded HTML tags.

OK, let's get back to trashing Christianity... :-)

Just to let people know I have posted my opening message in the 'Formal Debates & Discussions' as instructed.

If others are making comments on that debate as it goes along, in what section/thread will they appear?

Earl Doherty

Post deleted because of possible controversial effects on Doherty's debate with Brian (Nomad).

[This message has been edited by Earl (edited May 06, 2001).]

E: ...Brian uses terminology he doesn't well understand, and I thought I'd point you to some of the recent debates we've had that establish this fact and many others regarding Brian's position. After all, as I said, he's had easy access to your position much prior to the debate.

See also Brian's threads (1) "Was Julius Caesar assassinated?" found at http://www.infidels.org/electronic/f...ML/000485.html

(2) "Taking History Seriously," found at http://www.infidels.org/electronic/f...ML/000329.html

(3) "Redating the books of the New Testament" (where Brian apparently relies on an obscure writer, Young Kyu Kim, and little else), found at ]http://www.infidels.org/electronic/forum/Forum6/HTML/000209-2.html[/b]

I agree with your statements; however, there should be some clarification on #(3), above. Nomad (Brian) actually relies on Daniel Wallace's brief and partial analysis of Kim's Biblica Magazine article. To my knowledge, Nomad has not read the article itself and apparently does not plan to. (In my opinion, he would not necessarily fully understand it, anyway.)

rodahi



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