prase comments on Vanilla and chocolate and preference judgements - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Swimmer963 18 April 2011 10:14PM

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Comment author: prase 19 April 2011 12:34:57PM 1 point [-]

Why is the post written in a non-standard font? Because it happens now and then, somebody may already noticed the reason and see a way to fix it. The font isn't too bad (except it is different from the font of the comments), but at least in my viewer (Firefox on Ubuntu 10.10) there are no spaces around words written in italics, and that is really annoying.

Comment author: bogus 19 April 2011 12:56:16PM *  0 points [-]

Perhaps it was pasted in from a M$ Office document? The HTML source includes the following:

<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-indent: 36pt;" class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">...
Comment author: Swimmer963 19 April 2011 01:10:53PM 1 point [-]

Guilty. I noticed the italics thing. It wasn't like that when I was writing it in the Word document.

Comment author: bogus 19 April 2011 01:21:23PM 0 points [-]

AFAICT, the italics have no spaces around them because you didn't type them in the Word document. Yes, it looks fine in Word, but only because the M$ renderer places a lot of blank space around italicized text.

Comment author: Swimmer963 19 April 2011 01:45:45PM 0 points [-]

When I went back to edit it, there were spaces around the italics...I know there were spaces because I could delete it. When I re-submitted, it again looked like there weren't any spaces. So I added two spaces around each italic word. Hope that's an improvement.