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Happy to hear that, JP. It's a great story.

~Tom

I agree, Janet. There are quite a few methods of describing what you described - and they don't involve fingers or inches. The detail is unnecessary and more likely to be included in a "skin" book than anything approaching literary. Sounds as if the author was going for a faux-English flavor to the novel and didn't quite make it. If a person doesn't know much about the aetting/era they are writing into, then either research the heck out of it, or try another venue.

~Tom

You and yours have a good holidays time, too, Janet. My house is stuffed to the eaves with family. They're sleeping air mattresses on the floor. Wonderful times with both my kids and their kids.

~Tom

This is not a bug, Sol, just an observation. Following my last round of ophthalmology treatment, I find that trying to read how many points I have on my home page is nearly impossible. The choice of grey background and white font (all the rest is in blue, which contrasts nicely) makes it hard to read the numbers. Could that be changed to blue also?

~Tom

I have the same problem, DIrk, but with Japanese long characters as well as all the Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana characters. My temporary solution is to take a picture of the character, word or phrase and reduce it to the size of my font and insert it into the text as a picture. It will work, but it won't enlarge or reduce if the reader uses the zoom controls for the text.

It is a stopgap, and it is quite labor-intensive, but it does work.

~Tom

I'm not convinced that is strictly true. But I do find myself sometimes coming up with less than 5 comments on a short chapter. Then I'm faced with either trying to put them into a standard review or finding other things to highlight that aren't necessary to make the 5. That isn't really fair to the author.

What I would like to see is something like a ratio of necessary comments to length of the post. If it is under, say, 500 words, then only 2 comments, but if over 2500, then perhaps 6 or 7 comments to make the points. That way, you could still get a fixed amount of points for a post, but only have to come up with 2 to N comments.

~Tom

I just did another regular review. The edit box counted 80 words. When posted, I saw it contained 76 words. Somehow, 4 words are being miscounted (and dropped) when a review is posted. But, I looked for what was missing and could not find anything. I suspect some hidden stuff (like a CR or LF) is being dropped.

~Tom

I have OpenOffice installed on Windows. It will allow importing and exporting from/to PDF files. Just import the whole thing, change what you want and then export it back out to a new PDF. OpenOffice is free and a heck of an editing/drawing/spreadsheet/math suite.

~Tom

I just got bitten by the "miscounted words" bug. I provided a regular review that told me I had 55 words. When I posted it, I received NO points and when I went to the review, it showed 50 words. So, if I had even 50 words, why not the points?

~Tom

The Weavers produced a song called: "Martian to Pretoria" (or something like that).

~Tom