Another patent story I missed
Thursday November 17, 2005; part of: Nerdery

OK – I only found it after the deadline. But some idiot in the US Patent Office has approved one for a flying saucer which depends on antigravity. In a way, that's almost more shocking than patents on hyperlinks.

Posted by andrewb at November 17, 2005 06:33 PM
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That problem with bad character encoding on article pages but not on the main page continues to show up. The dash on this page is a case in point, and I'm seeing it in other articles as well.

Now if only I could get my flux modulation controller working....

Posted by: Jonathan Lundell on November 17, 2005 07:49 PM

No -- that's my fault. It's a cut and paste thing, though the dash should really have been caught. I'll have another look at the macro that does the posting.

Posted by: acb on November 17, 2005 09:16 PM

The links for the new test posts don't work, fwiw.

Posted by: Jonathan Lundell on November 17, 2005 11:19 PM

I nknwo. I took them down, as boring, once I had checked it all worked.

Posted by: acb on November 18, 2005 07:02 AM

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Textile formatting works here. Double hyphens are automatically converted to en dashes, quotes are automatically smartened. You can put dashes and asterisks around text to make italics bold and other silly effects easily.
  • Text wrapped in Asterisks which * will be bold. The asterisks must touch each end of the bold text. There must a space before the first and after the last.
  • Text wrapped in underscores - _ - will be italicised. The underscores must touch each end of the italics. There must a space before the first and after the last.
  • Paragraphs starting bq. will be block quoted. There must be no space before the "b" and one space after the full stop.
  • A hyperlink is made by wrapping the link text in double quotes, followed immediately by a colon, then the URL. If there is a question mark in the URL, wrap the whole lot in square brackets.
  • I use two classes to mark up text that deserves it. sane text looks like this. loony text looks like that. The syntax for those is %(sane)[space] sane text %; loony is left as an exercise to the reader.
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