Paging Mr. Foxx, red courtesy phone please (FIXED)

[sirenwerks]

I suspect you might like this - https://www.shapeways.com/product/EZMB9L8GJ/acl-m5-caboose-n?li=shop-results&optionId=55129839

[wazzou]

If he can read it.   

[sirenwerks]

If he can read it.   

OK mods, this keeps happening to me.  Normally I catch it and fix it (cut, paste as plain text, and it resizes to normal) but it's becoming a common occurrence where the text is resized (always microscopically smaller) when I don't play with the formatting at all.  What gives?

[davefoxx]

I suspect you might like this - https://www.shapeways.com/product/EZMB9L8GJ/acl-m5-caboose-n?li=shop-results&optionId=55129839

Bryan,

You suspect correctly!  For that price (only $14.03), it might be worth the risk of a poor Shapeways print job to see what I get.  Thanks for the heads-up.

DFF

[sirenwerks]

Bryan,

You suspect correctly!  For that price (only $14.03), it might be worth the risk of a poor Shapeways print job to see what I get.  Thanks for the heads-up.

DFF

Always thinking of my TRW friends!

For anyone looking for Southern bay window and CRR cupola cabooses, the vendor has them too.

[peteski]

OK mods, this keeps happening to me.  Normally I catch it and fix it (cut, paste as plain text, and it resizes to normal) but it's becoming a common occurrence where the text is resized (always microscopically smaller) when I don't play with the formatting at all.  What gives?

I saw your tiny font post yesterday and noticed there was also partial size formatting code showing in your post.  That seems to indicate that you, or whatever device you are using for posting, is adding those tags.

When I post to TRW the text window is not WYSIWYG - it is plain text with fixed size font.  Only when I do a message preview I can see the formatting in that preview.  The text window only shows the formatting codes with the square brackets around them.

Your "fixed" post still shows the tags for specific font (Verdana) and specific size (size=2).  Normally if you don.t use any tags the text looks like the text in this post.

[sirenwerks]

I saw your tiny font post yesterday and noticed there was also partial size formatting code showing in your post.  That seems to indicate that you, or whatever device you are using for posting, is adding those tags.

When I post to TRW the text window is not WYSIWYG - it is plain text with fixed size font.  Only when I do a message preview I can see the formatting in that preview.  The text window only shows the formatting codes with the square brackets around them.

Your "fixed" post still shows the tags for specific font (Verdana) and specific size (size=2).  Normally if you don.t use any tags the text looks like the text in this post.

I use Windows and Chrome at home and work.  It is uber-rare that I touch the style settings when I'm ranting on the interweb; 99.999% of the time just open a window and type.  So it's most likely not me migrating code from somewhere else.  When this has been happening, normally the cut and paste back will result in standard text formatting and I did such to fix this instance, but the type was huge this time, so I reset it to Verdana 10 pt manually.  But like I said, otherwise I point and shoot and don't play with the formatting.  Emojis and pasted in link and image URLs are as far as I usually go.  Only on rare occasion will I even underline text or what not and, believe me, I am familiar enough with document editing softwares and web code not to do something unless I want to do something.  The criminal snippets of code are just randomly appearing.  The only oddity this time was that I copied the URL and pasted it in using the URL button in the site. I finished typing and hit send and didn't stop to check my work, just noticed it today when Mr. Smarty Pants called it out.   


EDIT - when typing the above I cut and pasted to edit, and the tiny text is the pasted material.  I have no idea why it's happening.  Anyone else having the same problem?

[peteski]

Looking at your post (as if I was going to quote it), the the text containing your text has both font (verdana) and size (2px) tags around it.  if you were to edit your message, does your browser show those tags in the text edit window?

What I'm confused about is what you see in the text window as you are typing in a message. Is it always the same fixed font and size which I see in my browser or is the font and size variable in the text editing window?

here is a sample of small text

here is a sample of large test

This is a screen shot of the above message. That is the only way my text editing window looks when I'm composing a message. The font and size in this window is always as shown.

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[basementcalling]

I use Windows and Chrome at home and work.  It is uber-rare that I touch the style settings when I'm ranting on the interweb; 99.999% of the time just open a window and type.  So it's most likely not me migrating code from somewhere else.  When this has been happening, normally the cut and paste back will result in standard text formatting and I did such to fix this instance, but the type was huge this time, so I reset it to Verdana 10 pt manually.  But like I said, otherwise I point and shoot and don't play with the formatting.  Emojis and pasted in link and image URLs are as far as I usually go.  Only on rare occasion will I even underline text or what not and, believe me, I am familiar enough with document editing softwares and web code not to do something unless I want to do something.  The criminal snippets of code are just randomly appearing.  The only oddity this time was that I copied the URL and pasted it in using the URL button in the site. I finished typing and hit send and didn't stop to check my work, just noticed it today when Mr. Smarty Pants called it out.   


EDIT - when typing the above I cut and pasted to edit, and the tiny text is the pasted material.  I have no idea why it's happening.  Anyone else having the same problem?

Looks like a personal problem to me.    

[svedblen]

Tip: When you copy and paste text from another source into a TRW post, first paste it into a plain text editor (such as notepad, vi or emacs). This will make the text loose all formatting. Then copy it from the editor into TRW and everything will be just fine 

[jmlaboda]

For anyone looking for Southern bay window and CRR cupola cabooses, the vendor has them too.

Wow... and in several versions and a very wide variety of scales, too.  Really surprised.  Just wonder how good the prints in FXD actually are but to be honest I have little interest in such despite being a fan of the Southern... choosing instead to freelance some lines than to actually try to model the Southern though things have greatly advanced in regards to what is possible in modeling it.

[peteski]

Tip: When you copy and paste text from another source into a TRW post, first paste it into a plain text editor (such as notepad, vi or emacs). This will make the text loose all formatting. Then copy it from the editor into TRW and everything will be just fine 

That is what I don't understand.  In my browser the TRW's text window already acts like a notepad - no matter what kind of text I paste in it, it always shows up as plain text in the default size - all the formatting is stripped (as shown in the screen shot of my last post).  I need to add all the formatting tags manually and they show up as tags mixed with the plain text of the message. Only by hitting the preview button I can see what the post will actually look like (and the preview shows up above the text window where I type).

[nkalanaga]

Peteski:  That's also the way mine works.  I type it in Wordpad, which does formatting, then paste it here, and it all comes out looking the same. 

I also use the Quick-Reply box at the bottom of the page 99.9% of the time, which may have something to do with it.  Even to add a link or photo I type the "url" or "img" tags.

[wcfn100]

I use Windows and Chrome at home and work.

Out of curiosity are you using a laptop, and if so, does is have the touch pad 'tapping' enabled (you do unless you've disabled it)? 


Jason

[sirenwerks]

Yes.  I hate those damn track pads and use a cordless track ball.  But yes, I am aware of the writs ghost the track pad creates. 


Addendum - Right after typing the above message I went to look at another message I had just typed here at work while eating lunch and, lo, the same issue appeared, with a couple chunks of text shrunk beyond readability.  Funnily, I don't have a trackpad here at work, so that rules that theory out..