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Posted by Blinky the Shark on 05/26/05 12:55
jake wrote:
> In message <slrnd9alh1.23a.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net>, Blinky the
> Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> writes
>>This isn't HTML, but it's related. Look at what full justification
>>does to the word spacing in the narrow paragraph next to the image.
>>And there are rivers there you could sail the fleet through. (Do HTML
>>authors know what rivers are, or is that strictly a printing term?)
>>http://tinyurl.com/82pj2 =
>>http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1865/assasssination
>>-abraham-lincoln.htm
> I suspect that the problem here is that it was created by someone
> without much experience of HTML coding.
Good grief...
....I didn't even notice it *was* HTML (thus my disclaimer "this isn't
HTML) in my OP. I thought that was part of the scan; I thought I was
looking at one full scan of the whole newspaper page. How I managed to
miss the links in that column, I can't explain.
And the dog ate my homework, too. :)
> They've scanned the original (or facsimile) and generated the HTML
> directly from the OCR program -- which will have attempted to preserve
> the (exact) original layout, font and font-size, etc.
> Or maybe they used the OCR program to generate an MS Word file; Word
> then being used to generate the HTML.
Ew. Ew.
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