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>with the long purple quote

but surely it would normally word wrap?


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Tried evey hint gleaned from these posts and STILL the window in Geneology thread in Miscellany is w--i--d--e, as is page one in this thread.
It seems the problem popped up after the shutdown for maintenance on the ISP from 5 to 7 p.m. last Saturday.
Coincidence? I wonder !!??!! Gremlins maybe?
Should send a note to Webmaster? Someone with some literacy in computers perhaps? (That lets me out! Whew)
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>Setting preferences (temporarily!) to 1 post/page reveals that the problem is in fact bridget96's post with the long purple quote.

maybe so, but I had suspected that as well and pasted the "purple quote" into another post with no problem....


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Found the same thing, tsuwm.
WHAT can it be?
Mystifies me.
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maybe it was one of those queer emoticons from the jmh post just before that....


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>maybe so, but I had suspected that as well and pasted the "purple quote" into another post with no problem....

Did you put ["pre"] and ["/pre"] markup around it as I
have done here, and as I suspect bridget did in her offending
(as distinct from offensive) post?

I think that the ["pre"] and ["/pre"] cause the same behaviour as the ["url"] and ["/url"] that we have noted with long links.

What does this post do to the display?

[edit-in later] Having established that this is indeed the problem, I've broken the red bit into shorter lines.


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Right after my post above
It all went w-i-d-e again
I am keeping this narrow
by using enter
Hope it works.
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*FINE*. First my signature line, now my inept attempts to follow *TSUWM*'s advice on making neat-o fonts.... i don't want to play with you guys anymore.


*runs sobbing back to her ICQ friends, who all use the word 'prolly' in every other sentence*





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There, there, Bridget... looks like you managed to fix the fancy font thang before you ran off to play with the proles.


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Sure now, we wouldn't be having this discussion at all, but for you
You're the momemtary star of the thread-- and just because we happen,
for the moment,
to find your face a fine target for our cream pies, you're going to run away crying?
a fine irish name you're sporting, and not a bit of irish in ya? what a shame!
Why its a grand thing! sure any attention paid is a compliment!



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